Home bakers
Sell baked goods from home
Licenses, allowed foods, where you can sell, sales limits, the label, and pricing. Links to your state.
Free food label tools
Free food label maker. Print a Nutrition Facts panel today.
Type the amounts per serving. Get a Nutrition Facts or Supplement Facts panel in the FDA layout. Then read what your state requires on a cottage food label.
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One page per kind of food seller. Each answers the questions people ask, in order.
Home food sellers
Cottage food license by state
Which states need a license, permit, or registration, what it costs, and the sales limit.
Small food brands
Food label requirements
The five things every packaged food label must show, the nutrition panel and its exemptions, and claims.
Supplement makers
Supplement label requirements
The Supplement Facts panel, proprietary blends, the dagger, claims and the required disclaimer.
Tools
Every tool is free. You do not need an account.
Type the amounts per serving. Print a Nutrition Facts panel in the FDA layout.
List up to eight ingredients. Print a Supplement Facts panel.
Type your ingredients with weights. Get the ingredient list in the right order, the allergen line, and a printable cottage food label.
Convert grams, cups, tablespoons, and ounces for 45 baking ingredients.
Paste a recipe. Change the servings. Get every amount scaled, with kitchen fractions.
Enter what each ingredient costs and how much you use. Get cost per batch, cost per unit, and a selling price.
Ingredients, decorating time, packaging, and markup. Get a price for the whole cake and per slice.
Batch weight and servings in. Grams per serving and per-serving calories, fat, carbs, sodium, and protein out.
Pick the date made and the shelf life. Get the best-by date, with typical shelf lives for home-made foods.
Cottage food label rules by state
Each page lists what the label must show, the exact disclaimer text, and where you can sell.
Disclaimer text required.
Disclaimer text required.
Disclaimer text required.
Disclaimer text required.
Disclaimer text required. No nutrition panel required.
Disclaimer text required.
No set disclaimer text. No nutrition panel required.
Disclaimer text required. No nutrition panel required.
No set disclaimer text.
Disclaimer text required.
Disclaimer text required. No nutrition panel required.
Disclaimer text required. No nutrition panel required.
Disclaimer text required. No nutrition panel required.
Guides
The nine major allergens, the two ways to declare them, and the exact form of the "Contains" line.
Most home food businesses are exempt from the Nutrition Facts panel. Here is the federal exemption, what cancels it, and what your state may add.
The federal rules for listing ingredients on a food label, in plain words, with a worked example.