Changelog

Improved

• In the editor, when you preview a format that isn't on your plan, a click anywhere on the notice under the label now opens the unlock options, not only a click on its button.
• If you are not signed in, unlocking a format that isn't free now shows your two options straight away, unlocking just this label with a credit or upgrading to the plan that includes it, with the price, instead of only asking you to sign in. If you then create an account, you come back to the label you were working on.
• The "How it works" steps under the editor now say which formats are free and which need a plan, and that a paid format shows a watermarked preview until you unlock it.

Fixed

• The text under the editor said you could download a watermarked preview without an account. Since 6 November a download needs a free account (still no card). Corrected.

Improved

• Translated pages, mostly in Chinese and Japanese, now give search engines a fuller page description. Some were too short for Bing to show well in its results.

New

• Our first research study, Zero isn't zero: we applied the FDA rounding rules to all 7,793 USDA SR Legacy foods and found that 48% would print "0" for calories, fat, trans fat, sugars or sodium while containing some. The full data is free to download as a CSV.
• New guides: the best nutrition label generator, 6 tools compared and nutrition labels for baked goods.
• A free UK nutrition label template: the back-of-pack table per 100 g with salt and %RI, and the traffic-light front-of-pack panel, both as PNG downloads.
• Comparison pages for Food Label Maker alternatives and LabelCalc alternatives, with what each option costs for one label and ongoing.
• New guides: salsa nutrition labels and granola bar nutrition labels.
• New guide: buying a single nutrition label without a subscription, with what one label costs by route and what to check before you unlock.

Improved

• The nutrition database has a new layout, with a photo for every food group, and each category page (for example fish and seafood) now opens with a photo, its sub-categories, quick picks for the most protein and the fewest calories and fat, and its foods shown as tiles or as a list (tiles by default, and the page remembers your choice).
• The regulations library has a new layout: totals at the top, one tile per region with its flags, a search bar that stays in view, and cards that show each format's country and flag.
• Creating a free account: in the United States and most other countries, a free account now includes our marketing emails (unsubscribe any time). In the EU, the UK and other countries where the law requires it, the box stays optional. The privacy policy explains this.
• The methodology page now explains how to cite NutritionFactLabel in research and coursework.
• The ReciPal alternatives page now compares what each option costs for one label and ongoing, says when staying with ReciPal makes more sense, and walks through switching.
• The nutrition label maker page explains what you can and cannot customise on a nutrition label for your own product.
• The nutrition label templates page now explains how to use the templates in Word, Canva, Excel and print.

Fixed

• The templates page said you could fill and export a template without a watermark. That was wrong: the template files download free without a watermark, but downloads from the generator are watermarked previews unless you are on a paid plan. Corrected in English and seven translations.

Improved

• 22 popular foods in the nutrition database now have a written guide with answers to common questions, including green apple, dry chickpeas, red lentils, cooked spinach, pork tenderloin and mahi-mahi. Every figure comes from the food's USDA record.
• About 1,500 near-duplicate database entries, such as the same beef cut in another grade or trim, or a vegetable boiled with salt, are no longer listed for search engines. They are still on the site, and most now link at the top to the main page for that food.

Fixed

• On the translated free tools pages, tools that are only available in English now link to the English page. They linked to translated pages that do not exist and showed a "page not found" error.
• The site menu no longer gives search engines addresses that do not exist, such as a page's address with its menu label added to the end.
• On database pages for a specific form of a food, the note linking to the food's main page put its full stop before the link instead of after it.

New

• Pay per label is on sale: $3 for one label in any format, or packs of 10, 20, 40 and 100 labels from $2.80 down to $2 a label. Credits never expire, and an unlocked label stays in your account to download again.
• A plan change calculator on the pricing page: pick the plan you are on and the one you want, and see what is due today or refunded, when the change takes effect and your next charge. Signed-in subscribers get their plan and renewal date filled in. The billing rules below it are regrouped into editing limits, downloads and credits, and one list of every other rule.
• A pay-per-label calculator on the homepage: pick how many labels you need and it shows the cheapest mix of credit packs, the price per label and what you save.

Improved

• A new Black Friday hero on the homepage: the three lifetime prices side by side, one complete Nutrition Facts label, and the refund terms under the buttons.
• The homepage plan cards now show sale prices the same way as the pricing page: the sale price first, the full price struck through after it, and a Black Friday tag.
• The refund policy now reads the same everywhere on the site: we offer a 7-day refund on monthly, yearly and lifetime plans. Credits & Individual Label Purchase are not refundable. The credit checkout no longer shows a money-back badge, and the Black Friday banner now says the refund is on monthly, yearly and lifetime plans.
• On the pricing page, pay per label is now a fourth tab after Lifetime, with the five credit packs shown as cards in the same table as the plans.
• The Free plan card now reads "Export: watermarked JPG".
• Pro now includes 2 users, monthly, yearly and lifetime.
• On a free account, the export window is now four clear choices: download without watermark, download a preview, buy a plan, or cancel.
• The plan cards on the pricing page now list only what each plan includes, without crossed-out lines, in rows divided by a line so the same feature lines up across the plans.
• The homepage pricing cards now match the pricing page, and the Pro card has a new dark design with an orange and pink glow.
• A new "Compare every feature, every plan" table on the pricing page, grouped into labels, recipes, production, team and billing, with the plan names pinned at the top as you scroll.
• Recipe costing and inventory / lot tracing are now part of Pro and Business, and the pricing cards list inventory and lot tracing.
• To protect paid accounts, a paid account used from many different locations at once is locked until its owner contacts us.
• Downloading a label now needs a free account. You can still build and preview a label without one, and after you sign in you come straight back to it with the download ready.

Fixed

• The regular homepage hero showed under the Black Friday hero after this morning's redesign. It is hidden again until the sale ends.

New

• A comparison with nutritionfacts-labels.com, the pay-per-label US tool ($4 to $6 a label): where it is the cheaper choice and where calculating from a recipe matters. It is also listed on the alternatives page.
• Three more comparisons: OnlineLabels, the free generator from a label printer; Nutrifox, embeddable labels for food blogs; and MenuCalc, restaurant menu nutrition.

Improved

• The Food Label Maker comparison now shows its renamed plans as checked today: Basic $25, Plus $49 and Professional $99 a month, with Enterprise on request. It previously listed an entry plan at $49 a month.
• The MenuSano comparison now lists every MenuSano plan with monthly and annual prices as checked today, and answers common questions about its prices, download limits and trial.
• Every blog article, in every language, now ends with a link to the free nutrition facts label generator.

Fixed

• Comparison pages said the free plan exports the three US FDA formats clean. Since 3 November the free plan gives watermarked previews of those formats; clean files are on paid plans.
• The India star rating (INR) format and its regulation page now say plainly that it comes from FSSAI's 2022 draft, which was never adopted, and that FSSAI has since proposed red "high in" warning labels instead, with the Supreme Court case on them still pending. Several translated pages said the draft was from 2024; it is from 2022.
• The India star rating label itself said "Rating per FSSAI draft 2024"; it now says 2022.
• Our Canada guide said vitamins A and C were removed from the required list. More precisely, they are no longer mandatory in the Nutrition Facts table and may still be declared voluntarily; the article now links the CFIA page.
• Our GCC guide now names the current edition, GSO 2233:2025 (Edition 3, approved 30 April 2025), and links the GSO store entry.
• Articles on FDA sodium targets now link FDA's Phase II draft guidance for the flavored chips figures (480 and 670 mg per 100 g), and articles on Texas SB 25 now give the case number of the 11 February 2026 court order and link it.

New

• A methodology page explains how the generator rounds nutrients, calculates % Daily Value, sets serving sizes, detects allergens and checks claims, with the regulation behind each rule and the limits to check yourself.
• An author page for founder Waqar Anwar.
• Every blog article now ends with a Sources list linking to the primary documents behind it, such as the eCFR text of 21 CFR 101.9, Federal Register rules, FDA guidance, USDA FoodData Central and EUR-Lex, and shows its author.

Improved

• Our name is now written as one word, NutritionFactLabel, across the site: page titles, the logo, the footer and copyright line, comparison pages, page text in every language, the app name on your home screen, and the details search engines and link previews show. "Nutrition Fact Label" and "NFL" still refer to us.
• Expanded pages for 12 more foods with answers to the questions people search, including soy sauce, salami, swordfish, goat milk, apple juice, shiitake mushrooms, liverwurst, beef bologna, Vienna sausage, jelly donuts, Ensure Plus and Dove milk chocolate.
• A new website logo: a dark rounded tile with a lowercase n, next to the name Nutrition Fact Label, in the site header, footer and label generator. The browser tab icon and home-screen app icon now use the same tile.
• The opening line of every free tool now says plainly what the tool does, what you enter and the rule or data it follows, in every language the tool is available in.

Fixed

• The "Not a significant source of..." footnote listed sodium, fat and other nutrients whenever they were under 2% of the Daily Value, for example 40 mg of sodium. That 2% test applies only to vitamins and minerals; other nutrients are now listed only when they round to zero (or "less than 1 g").
• Recipe labels rounded some values twice. 0.46 g of fat could print as 0.5 g instead of 0 g, and small amounts of thiamin, iron and similar nutrients were rounded to whole milligrams before their % Daily Value was worked out. Recipe totals now keep full precision and the FDA rounding is applied once.
• The generator's serving-size list gave wrong reference amounts for bagels and toaster pastries (55 g, correct 110 g), dense ready-to-eat cereal (55 g, correct 60 g), candy (40 g, correct 30 g) and sugar (4 g, correct 8 g). It now matches FDA's table, and a 40 g option for cereals weighing 20 to 43 g per cup was added.
• Our Mexico NOM-051 guide said the third phase of warning-seal limits began in October 2025. A July 2025 decree extended the second phase to 31 December 2027, so the third phase now starts on 1 January 2028.
• Our India star rating guide gave the wrong score-to-star scale and a merged "FVNL" component. It now shows the 2022 FSSAI draft's own scales for solid and liquid foods, scores fruits and vegetables separately from nuts, legumes and millets, and reports that FSSAI told India's Supreme Court in 2026 that it intends to withdraw the draft. The draft is from 2022, not 2024 as several pages said.
• Our added sugars and honey guides called the relief for single-ingredient sugars non-binding guidance. Leaving off the grams comes from the 2018 Farm Bill, a law; only the dagger footnote is FDA enforcement discretion.
• Our fiber guide said only the seven fibers named in the regulation can be declared. FDA also allows 11 more, such as inulin and polydextrose, while it finishes rulemaking.
• Our RACC guide said bulk and novelty ice cream became separate categories in 2016, and described a "1 or 2 servings" option for 100 g products. Both share one 2/3 cup reference amount, and that serving option is no longer in the regulation.
• Our Nutrition Facts requirements guide described the wrong bars, leading and 6 point uses. It now follows 21 CFR 101.9(d): which lines get a bar and which a hairline, 1 point leading (4 points for nutrient lines), and 6 point for "Amount per serving", the "% Daily Value" heading and the footnote.
• Our compliance guide left added sugars, trans fat and cholesterol out of the nutrients that must not exceed the label by more than 20%, and said the added sugars record rules give no retention period. They require 2 years.
• Five healthy claim articles described 2.5 g added sugars, 230 mg sodium and 2 g saturated fat as FDA's general limits for individual foods. Those are FDA's low-fat yogurt example; limits differ by food group. The sodium history and the cereal reference amounts in these articles were also corrected.
• Our Canada guide left out the 10% Daily Value front-of-pack threshold for foods with a reference amount of 30 g or 30 mL or less, and our meat and fish chart now notes that catfish labelling is under USDA, not FDA.
• Our FDA Food Labeling Guide article cited 21 CFR 101.62(b) for the saturated fat claim disclosure; it is 101.62(c). Its net quantity type sizes also stopped at one-fourth inch; panels over 400 square inches need one-half inch.
• Our labeling requirements checklist and hot sauce guide said 21 CFR 101.7 requires both US and metric units. 101.7 requires US units and only permits metric; the metric figure is required by the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act.
• Our Daily Values guide said "low sodium" means 140 mg or less per serving. It is per reference amount, and also per 50 g when the reference amount is 30 g or 2 tablespoons or less.
• Our hot sauce guide said paprika, turmeric and saffron must be named individually. As spices that also color food, they may be declared as "spice and coloring" or by name.
• Our beef cuts chart said "90% lean" ground beef needs a fat percentage because it is not "lean". The rule ties it to the "low fat" definition.
• Our allergen guide left molluscs out of the allergens Canada adds to the US list.
• Our Canada front-of-pack guide said the symbol always goes on the right half of the main panel. It goes on the upper half when the panel is at least as tall as it is wide, and on the right half otherwise.
• Our Natasha's Law guide named one regulation as if it covered the whole UK. It covers England; Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland have their own regulations, all in force since 1 October 2021.
• Our California AB 660 guide left beer and other malt beverages out of the exemptions, and presented the $1,000 fine as set by AB 660. The bill sets no penalty; the misdemeanor fine of up to $1,000 comes from existing California law.
• Our 2027 label changes article listed beetroot red among the natural colors FDA approved in 2025. The 2025 approvals were galdieria extract blue, calcium phosphate, gardenia blue and wider use of butterfly pea flower extract. It also said HHS and FDA sent the ultra-processed food definition for review; HHS announced it as a joint HHS and USDA submission, logged under FDA.
• Our small business exemption guide gave an old mailing address (HFS-800) for the exemption notice. It now gives FDA's current routes: online, email, fax or mail to HFS-820.
• Our Brazil magnifier guide said products with a warning cannot make claims that "contradict" it. The actual rules are narrower: certain claims about the warned nutrient are not allowed, and claims may not sit in the upper half of the main panel or use larger type than the warning.
• Our Nutri-Score article presented the original 2017 letter cutoffs as current. They are now labelled as the 2017 cutoffs, with a note that the 2022 update changed the boundary between A and B.

New

• Coming soon, pay per label with no subscription: credits in packs of 1, 5, 15 or 40 labels, from $2.99, where 1 credit will unlock a saved label for clean JPG, PNG, PDF and SVG files in any label format. An unlocked label stays in your account and downloads again for free, and you can edit it twice within 30 days for ¼ credit each. Credits never expire. How pay per label works explains it step by step, and the homepage and pricing page now show it too.
• Your credit balance and history will be on your account page once packs go on sale.
• Free downloads are now watermarked JPEG previews of the three US FDA formats (Standard, Tabular and Dual Column). Until today the free plan downloaded clean JPGs of those three formats. Clean files now come with a paid plan or an unlocked label; the full rules are under billing rules.

Improved

• Expanded pages for 12 more foods with answers to the questions people search, including cooked chicken, kidney beans, artichoke, figs, guava, plantain, ricotta, sunflower seeds and whole wheat tortillas, plus new questions on the apple, coconut oil and ground beef pages.
• Every one of our 51 free tools now answers the common questions about it on its page, with 20 tools gaining answers for the first time, including the QUID calculator, Brazil Lupa checker and net carbs calculator.
• The US Nutrition Facts regulation pages, starting with Standard, now show the FDA rounding rules from 21 CFR 101.9(c) next to examples of exactly how the generator rounds each value.
• Simpler menus. Free tools now shows nine popular tools in three groups, with the nutrition database at the top and a link to all 51 free tools. Product lists only the label software, and Resources keeps to learning, regulations and company pages; industry pages are in the footer. The homepage now says where our nutrition data comes from (USDA FoodData Central) and links to the database.
• The homepage shows its main text sooner on phones. The Black Friday price now has its own line above the offer details.

Fixed

• Corrected our pages, including blog posts and translated pages, that still said free downloads have no watermark. Free downloads are now watermarked JPEG previews of the three US FDA formats; clean files come with a paid plan.
• Password fields on log in, sign up, password reset and your account page now have an eye button to show or hide what you typed.
• Fixed Supplement Facts labels ignoring the proprietary blend components, and sometimes the directions, warning and company fields: after the first change on the label, further typing in those boxes was not picked up. Everything you type there now appears on the label straight away.
• Fixed downloads of labels that include small symbols (for example Colombia's warning octagons, India's star rating and Canada's front-of-pack symbol): the file could contain only one symbol instead of the whole label. They now download the full label.
• Fixed the dashboard failing to load saved labels with a "Could not find a relationship" message after today's update. Your labels were never affected; they show again on the dashboard.
• Every format can be opened on every plan. Formats outside your plan now show as a lower-quality picture of the label with "PREVIEW" printed inside it, with no popup while you browse. When you go to download one, the generator shows two ways to get it: unlock just that label with a credit, or upgrade to the plan that includes it. Once unlocked, the clean label replaces the picture straight away. They cannot be downloaded until then. Earlier today we said free accounts could download a preview of every format; that was wrong, and the free formats are Standard, Tabular and Dual Column.
• Translated nutrition database pages now carry complete search descriptions and the link to the main version of a food, in all 10 languages.
• Homepage accessibility: the Feedback button now has a name on phones, the "Skip to content" link works, and the format tags in the features section are easier to read.

New

• The % Daily Value calculator, Nutri-Score calculator and UK traffic-light calculator can now be embedded on other websites. Each tool page has an "Embed this calculator on your site" panel with a mini calculator and a badge to copy, plus a live preview.

Fixed

• China GB 28050-2025 labels now declare energy in kJ correctly. Before, the calorie figure was printed as kJ, so energy and its NRV% were about a quarter of the true value.
• EU 1169/2011 nutrition declarations now follow the European Commission rounding guidance: for example salt under 1 g is shown to 0.01 g, so 0.03 g no longer appears as 0.0 g, and fat, carbohydrate, sugars and protein of 10 g or more are shown to the nearest gram.
• Canadian Nutrition Facts tables now follow the rounding table in the Food and Drug Regulations (B.01.401): 5 Calories shows as 5 instead of 0, fat and saturated fat from 0.5 to 5 g round to the nearest 0.5 g, and carbohydrate, fibre, sugars, protein, cholesterol and potassium use their own rules. The trans fat row now reads "+ Trans / trans".
• The "Contains" statement from the allergen detector and ingredient tools now names the specific tree nut, fish and shellfish, such as "Almonds", "Salmon" or "Shrimp", as US law requires, instead of "Tree Nuts", "Fish" or "Crustacean Shellfish".
• The Singapore Nutri-Grade mark now leaves declared lactose and galactose out of the sugar figure, and a beverage containing a non-sugar sweetener can no longer be graded A. The Singapore form has new lactose, galactose and sweetener inputs.
• Supplement Facts and bilingual US labels no longer fail to display when a serving weight arrives as a number, for example from the nutrition database.
• Labels for Serbia, Albania, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Moldova, Kosovo and Georgia are now printed in the national language (Albanian and Serbian for Kosovo) with decimal commas, instead of in English.
• Vietnam labels now follow Circular 30/2026/TT-BYT, in force since 10 July 2026: total sugars and saturated fat appear on the panel when you enter them, for products with added sugar or fried foods.
• The nutrient claim checks now flag when a claim needs the FDA disclosure "See nutrition information for ... content" because the food is above the 13 g fat, 4 g saturated fat, 60 mg cholesterol or 480 mg sodium level.
• If someone else saves a label after you opened it, in another tab or on your team, saving now tells you instead of overwriting their changes.

Improved

• The label preview now warns when a per-100 g label has no serving weight (so every value would show as 0), and when values are impossible, such as negative amounts or more fat, carbohydrate and protein than the serving weighs.
• Each Lifetime plan on the pricing page now lists everything it includes, the same features as the matching monthly plan, instead of "Everything in the ... plan".
• The plan cards on the homepage now list every feature of each plan, the same as the pricing page, instead of only the first few.
• PNG and JPG exports are now exactly 300 DPI at the label's print size (they were 288 DPI).
• If a label can't be drawn with the values entered, the preview now says so instead of going blank.
• On US labels, the preview now reminds you when vitamin D, calcium, iron and potassium are all still 0, since the label would state 0 for each.
• Black in vector PDF exports is now pure black ink (100% K) instead of screen black, which printers turn into four-colour "rich black" that can blur small type.
• Editing the label while an export is running no longer mixes old and new values in the downloaded file.

Improved

• Expanded pages for 23 more foods, with answers to the questions people search, including brown rice, turkey, chicken drumstick, canned corn, split peas, cornmeal, brown sugar, ranch dressing, barbecue sauce, the McDonald's sausage biscuit, corned beef, ground pork, beef jerky, pepperoni, lettuce, whey protein powder, sugar cookies, tonic water and the KFC biscuit.

Fixed

• % Daily Values for vitamins and minerals on US Nutrition Facts labels now use the FDA increments in 21 CFR 101.9(c)(8)(iii): under 2% is shown as 0%, then the nearest 2% up to 10%, the nearest 5% up to 50% and the nearest 10% above that. Before, they were rounded to the nearest whole percent, so a label could show, for example, iron at 11% instead of 10% or calcium at 1%. This applies to labels made in the generator, exported files and every food page and label download in the nutrition database.
• A nutrient whose amount is declared as 0 now shows 0% Daily Value, so labels no longer print, for example, "Saturated Fat 0g" next to 1%.
• Site updates from October 30 and 31 that had not gone live are now published.

New

• Six new guides: the beef cuts, dairy, bread and tortilla and beans and legumes nutrition charts, what a nutrition label costs, and software vs lab testing. The energy drink labeling guide is also published.
• 23 more foods in the Spanish nutrition database, including cebolla china, frijoles pintos, plátano macho, tomate verde, chile jalapeño, elote and yuca.
• Expanded pages for 28 foods, with answers to the questions people search, including flank steak, sour cream, flour tortillas by size, black-eyed peas, Monster Energy, green onions, ribeye, cottage cheese, lentils, butternut squash, kiwi, almond milk, french fries, scallops, pita bread and the McDonald's hash brown. Pages for other forms of a food, such as dry chickpeas, now point to the main page.

Fixed

• The RACC lookup now matches the current FDA reference amounts in 21 CFR 101.12: for example soft drinks are 360 mL, bagels 110 g, nut butters 2 tbsp and ice cream 2/3 cup. Notes on rows with more than one amount now show in the table.

New

• Every blog article now ends with a "Was this article helpful?" vote and a form to ask a question about the article. Questions go privately to our support team, who reply by email.
• Each plan now sets how often a saved label can be re-edited: Free once within 24 hours, Starter twice within 7 days, Pro 3 times within 30 days, and Business without limit. Every plan keeps the full edit history of each label, and a label that can no longer be edited can still be viewed, downloaded or saved as a new label. Labels saved before today are not affected. The rules are on the pricing page.

Improved

• The dashboard shows how many edits each label has left and until when.
• On the pricing page the "Most popular" badge sits in the corner of the Pro card, so all four plan names and prices line up.
• Free tools now has its own menu in the main navigation bar, listing tools by category with a link to all free tools.

Improved

• More food pages in the nutrition database now answer the questions people search for, for example how much protein is in jasmine rice, answered on the white rice page.

New

• Three new guides with full charts: carbs in vegetables, calories in fruit and protein in meat and fish. Each links to the food pages it covers.

Improved

• Nutrition database food pages now include short answers to common questions about each food.

Fixed

• GCC-style labels now show a space between the Arabic and English nutrient names.

New

• New free tools: HFSS Calculator, Nutri-Grade Calculator, PPDS Label Maker, Mexico Octagon Generator, Canada High in Symbol Preview, UK 14 Allergen Chart, QUID Calculator, Brazil Lupa Checker, Veg / Non-Veg Symbol, Label Sheet Maker, Product Spec Sheet, Label Proof Compare and Food Testing Lab Finder. The HFSS Calculator shows the proposed 2018 model next to the current 2004/05 result.
• UK label formats in the generator now show an HFSS score card.

Improved

• The mobile editor header, homepage pricing, colour contrast and several other details were improved after a usability review.

New

• Signed-out visitors now enter their email once before their first label download, with an optional box for product news.

New

• Black Friday sale: the lifetime licence is up to 76% off, and every paid plan gets an extra 10% off until Cyber Monday. The offer is shown on the homepage in all 11 languages and on the pricing page.

Improved

• The pricing table now states that no plan adds a watermark to exported labels.

New

• Teams get Owner, Editor and Creator roles, a "last edited by" line, version history and team alerts.
• Account settings add a profile picture, structured addresses and a password strength meter.

Fixed

• Nutrition database labels now say "Added Sugars not reported" when the source has no value, instead of showing 0 g.
• Long serving sizes now fit inside the nutrition database label header.

New

• New guides: nutrition labels for hot sauce and nutrition labels for beverages.

Improved

• Every free tool now works in all the languages the site is translated into, and the translated tool pages list every tool.

New

• A cottage food labeling guide for all 50 states and DC, covering what home-based producers must print in each state.
• Lifetime licences can now also be bought through AppSumo, alongside direct purchase.

Fixed

• Corrected the source notes for Texas, Nevada, West Virginia and Wisconsin on the cottage food page.

New

• The footer now shows the directories that list NutritionFactLabel, including SaaSFame, Startup Fame, Twelve Tools, Good AI Tools, LaunchKiwi, Smol Launch and others, with light and dark versions of each badge.
• Key pages, the sitemap and a random sample of pages are now checked every day, and site updates are published automatically after passing our checks.

Improved

• Foods with long names now have shorter page descriptions, so they display in full in search results.

Fixed

• Removed a footer link to a directory that never listed us.

New

• A Feedback button on every page lets you send a suggestion or report a problem straight to our support team.
• You can redeem a licence key on the account subscription page.
• The recipe nutrition calculator has an "Apply to label" button that carries its values into the label generator.

Improved

• The recipe ingredient editor in the free tools is easier to read.

Fixed

• Fields in the QR code generator no longer lose focus after each keystroke.
• The food search tools now read the correct USDA nutrient for each value, and the fiber target is correct.

New

• Sign-up has an optional box to receive product news by email.

Improved

• Regulation, country, industry and other content pages, and blog articles, now link to related pages.
• The industries hub has a fuller section on how each type of business uses the generator, in all 10 languages.
• The homepage appears faster, because the top section is shown before scripts finish loading.
• The sub-processors list now matches the services we use today.

Improved

• New favicon, app icons and link preview image to match the new brand.

An accuracy review of the free tools' reference pages, run while translating them, found mistakes in our English copy and one in a calculation. Each is listed with what it said and what is correct. All are fixed on every page and in every language where the copy appears.

• Unit Converter, vitamin E: converted synthetic (dl-alpha-tocopherol) vitamin E at 0.9 mg per IU. The correct factor is 0.45 mg per IU (natural d-alpha-tocopherol is 0.67 mg per IU, which was already right). Any synthetic vitamin E value converted with the tool before this date should be recalculated.
• Claim Validator, %DV Calculator and Nutrient Ranking: called the 21 CFR 101.13(h) levels "disqualifying levels". They are disclosure levels: a food above them can still carry a nutrient content claim, but the claim must be accompanied by a disclosure statement such as "See nutrition information for fat content". The levels that bar a health claim outright are the disqualifying levels in 21 CFR 101.14(a)(4).
• FDA Label Checklist: had the two US exemptions the wrong way round. The low-volume exemption is the one based on employees and units sold and claimed by filing an annual notice with FDA (21 CFR 101.9(j)(18)); the small-business exemption is based on annual sales and needs no notice (21 CFR 101.9(j)(1)).
• FDA Label Checklist: said none of its answers removes an obligation. A requirement that does not apply by definition is the exception: a single-ingredient food needs no separate ingredient list.
• RACC Lookup: used an 8 oz reference amount for a soft drink. The RACC is 12 fl oz (360 mL), so a 20 fl oz bottle is about 167% of it and is labeled as one serving, the whole bottle.
• Recipe Scaler: said scaling a batch changes servings per container. Scaling changes the yield (how many packages you get); servings per container changes only when the package size changes, and the per-serving panel does not change at all.
• Bucket Fill Calculator: its FAQ said the tool assumes a cylinder. It does no geometry: it multiplies the container volume you enter by the fill percentage and the density.
• Mexico Warning Seals: said the caffeine and sweetener legends apply to products aimed at children. They apply whenever the product contains caffeine or non-caloric sweeteners, and they advise against consumption by children. The page also listed Ecuador among warning-seal countries; Ecuador uses a traffic-light system.
• Net Weight / Yield: said a 15% moisture loss concentrates nutrients by 15%. It concentrates them by about 17.6% (1 ÷ 0.85).
• Shelf Life Calculator: called a product with pH above 4.6 "a low-acid canned food or an acidified food". A shelf-stable canned product in that range is a low-acid canned food (21 CFR 113); an acidified food (21 CFR 114) is a low-acid food brought to pH 4.6 or below by adding acid.
• Food Cost Calculator: told readers to divide by units sold where it means units actually yielded, and overstated the effect of a 12% cost understatement on a 40% margin: it cuts the real margin to about 32%.
• Plastic Resin Safety: answered "No" to whether any of the plastics can take hot food. Polypropylene (5) is the usual material for microwave and hot-fill containers, within the conditions the supplier states for that item; PET (1), PS (6) and PVC (3) should not be used with hot food.
• QR Code Generator: described the phone number required with a bioengineered-food digital-link disclosure as a text-message option. Under the USDA standard it is a number to call for more information; disclosure by text message is a separate option.
• Nutri-Score Calculator: said the algorithm was revised in 2023. The update was adopted for foods in 2022 and for beverages in 2023.
• FDA Label Checklist: said every US label must carry an ingredient list and a Nutrition Facts panel. The ingredient list is required where a food has more than one ingredient, and the Nutrition Facts panel unless an exemption applies.
• Food Cost Calculator: described prime cost as labour plus overhead. Prime cost is food cost plus labour; overhead is not part of it.
• %DV Calculator: cited only 21 CFR 101.9(c)(8)(iv) for the reference values; the macronutrient values are in 101.9(c)(9). It also said the disclosure applies when a food exceeds the levels for fat, saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium; exceeding any one of them triggers it. And it described the infant category as under twelve months; it is through twelve months.
• UK Traffic Light Checker: said drinks use roughly half the food thresholds. That holds except for the low threshold for salt, which is the same for drinks as for food.
• Nutri-Score Calculator: said the colour scale runs to red. Grade E is dark orange.
• Food Comparison: listed twelve of the fourteen nutrients it compares; the list now names all fourteen, including saturated and trans fat separately.
• Recipe Scaler: said cooking times change with mass but not with quantity. Cooking and cooling times depend on the depth and shape of the mass in the vessel, so they do not scale in proportion to the quantity.
• Net Weight / Yield, FDA Label Checklist and PDP Type Size FAQ: an earlier version of this entry gave 21 CFR 101.105 as the net quantity section for food, and these pages were updated to match. The correct section is 21 CFR 101.7, with the type-size requirements in 101.7(i). All three pages now cite 101.7 in every language.

Other fixes this week

• The free tools' reference guides and FAQs are back on all 31 tool pages, and the 14 tools that did not have a guide now have one.
• The tool reference pages are now translated into Spanish, German, Portuguese, French, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Hindi and Urdu.
• Unpublished draft blog posts now return a proper "page not found" response, and tool pages no longer link to them.
• Links to retired food pages now lead straight to the nutrition database.
• Translated tool pages now provide FAQ data to search engines in their own language only.
• Food-category introductions in Japanese, Chinese, Russian and Arabic were rewritten to match the foods each page lists.

New

• Added links to cancel or manage your subscription.

Improved

• The promotional banner now appears on every page, including the label generator.

Fixed

• Market tabs and the label preview now fit properly on mobile screens.

New

• Twelve Brazilian foods from Brazil's TACO food composition table were added to the nutrition database in English and Portuguese.
• Foods from the Swiss Food Composition Database were added, including quark, Sekt, Spätzle, Schnitzel and Döner, along with a table of data sources.
• 27 more foods were added based on search demand, and 18 existing foods are now available in German, Spanish and Portuguese.

Fixed

• Improved the grammar of French and Portuguese introductions on food pages.

New

• The nutrition database adds new foods including tamale, chilaquiles, pozole, tequila, döner and pasta salad, with printable PDFs.

Improved

• Food pages now describe the specific dataset their nutrition data comes from.

New

• A new label reader turns an uploaded label, spec sheet or recipe file into any of 152 label formats.
• A new pre-press check reviews your label artwork before printing.
• A lifetime deal banner now appears above the navigation bar in 11 languages, and pricing links can open directly on the Lifetime option.
• 364 more nutrition database food pages are published in German, Portuguese, French and Spanish, with local food names, search aliases, local default servings and translated serving labels.
• Printable calorie table PDFs (374 tables) and food ranking pages were added to the nutrition database.

Improved

• Switching language on an untranslated database page now keeps you on the English page with a notice in your language, instead of sending you to the hub.
• Derived serving weights in the nutrition database now round to whole grams from 50 g up.

New

• Nutrition database hub and category pages now offer printable calorie table PDFs in all languages.

Improved

• Nutrition database pages now use local default serving sizes and unit words, open with a direct answer, and include an FAQ about the data.

Improved

• The website moved to new hosting, and pages are smaller to download, so they load faster.

Improved

• The Product menu in the navigation is now translated in every language.

Fixed

• Large page headlines on translated pages now resize more reliably to fit their space.

New

• All 68 blog articles are now available in full in Russian and Hindi, so every article is published in all nine translated languages.
• The nutrition label template page and its 15 format pages are now available in all nine translated languages.
• The first 19 regulation pages, covering the US Nutrition Facts and Supplement Facts formats and nine national supplement schemes, are now available in all nine translated languages.
• The inventory feature page is now translated into all nine languages, and the glossary is now available in Hindi.

Improved

• Translated blog posts are now served at their own language address rather than redirecting to the English original.

Fixed

• Translated blog posts now show their own translated page title and search description instead of the blog's general title.

New

• All 68 blog articles are now available in full in Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Chinese, Arabic and Japanese.
• The glossary page is now available in Japanese.

Improved

• Translated articles keep each country's official printed label wording (such as EU, Canadian, Mexican, Chilean and Brazilian terms) in its original language, so it matches what must appear on pack.

Fixed

• Translated blog posts now show their translated headline and summary instead of the English ones.
• Clicking from one translated blog post to another no longer loads the English article or a shortened summary in place of the full translation.
• Corrected regulatory details in several English blog articles, including the sodium rounding steps, the added sugars %DV rule for children 1 through 3, and the low cholesterol claim condition.
• Corrected the dual column example, the small business exemption citation and the count of vitamins and minerals with RDIs in the English blog articles.
• Corrected Brazil's front-of-package warning text to the singular form the regulation prescribes, and the French wording of Canada's front-of-package symbol in blog articles.
• The homepage label formats section no longer scrolls sideways on phones, and the sample label is no longer cut off.

New

• 30 new blog articles on FDA labeling rules, written from the current eCFR text, each with its own cover image.

New

• After exporting a label, signed-out users are now offered the option to create an account.

New

• A "Try it with a sample product" button on the homepage opens the generator with an example product loaded.

Improved

• The 15 most-used regulation pages now carry in-depth guidance written from primary sources, with sources listed and seven to eight FAQs each.
• The generator's first-run tutorial now has six steps covering the label, format list, inspector, compliance checks, product form and export, without scrolling the page.
• The About page now explains how regulation content is checked, and the Customers page describes who the tool is built for and how each group uses it.
• Pages load faster because tracking scripts now load after the page is ready.

Fixed

• Corrected several regulation details, including Canada's transition dates, Mexico's phase dates and China's effective date, plus official source links for Mexico and Brazil.
• Old links to translated copies of English-only pages, such as legal pages and the changelog, now redirect to the English page.

New

• Food pages now show the label in Canadian bilingual, EU and UK formats alongside the FDA panel, which you can download as SVG or PNG.
• Published 18 new blog articles on FDA labeling topics, including daily values, serving sizes, added sugars, the healthy claim and front-of-package labeling.

Improved

• Food pages now link to other forms of the same food, such as egg, fried egg and egg white.

Fixed

• Serving sizes on food pages now use the correct singular and plural units.
• Labels on food and template pages now fit their column instead of being cut off, and the download area has a cleaner layout.

Improved

• The homepage benefits section is now a carousel with arrows and dots that advances automatically and pauses when you hover.
• Homepage audience cards, template examples, market showcases and the most popular pricing card have a new colorful design.
• Homepage text now runs wider for easier reading, and the small labels above section titles have been removed.

Improved

• Each of the 12 markets in the homepage formats section now has a fuller description of its panel, regulation and what the generator handles, in 11 languages.
• The homepage has new sections on who the generator is for, how it works and a nine-question FAQ.

New

• New brand look with a new logo and icon, applied across the generator, tools, account, inventory and content pages.
• A guided product tour now introduces the generator and the free tools.

Improved

• The homepage now opens with an interactive preview of the generator, including the full format list, label inspector, and light, dark and label-language modes.
• Mexico NOM-051 warning octagons no longer print the word "SELLO", and their text is sized to fit the longest word.
• The site now opens in light mode on your first visit; a saved dark mode choice is kept.
• The homepage now shows key figures with animated counters and a scrolling list of countries.

New

• We now check the official sources for the nutrition labeling rules we implement every week, and review any change before updating the generator. A probe that cannot be checked is treated as unconfirmed, not as "no change". The check has run every week since.

Fixed

• The language switcher no longer links to translated pages that do not exist, such as blog posts, which previously sent readers back to the English page or to a missing page.

Improved

• Every free tool page now has an FAQ (137 questions across 30 tools), with front-of-pack timelines checked against current sources.
• The label formats sidebar in the generator is now open by default on desktop.
• The product name field in the generator is wider, so longer product names are no longer cut off.

Fixed

• The homepage now describes the Free plan accurately: three US FDA formats and JPG download, with no account, card or watermark needed.

Improved

• The site is now open to every major search engine and AI assistant, including ChatGPT search, Claude, Perplexity, Apple, Bing and Yandex, so our guides and tools can be found and cited.
• New and updated pages are now sent to search engines as soon as they are published.
• Site copy was edited for plainer punctuation throughout.

New

• Added market guides for the US, Mexico and Australia, linked from the regulations hub and the related format pages.
• Free nutrition label templates for 15 formats, plus a blank Nutrition Facts label, each with a downloadable PNG image.
• Two new free tools: the FDA Label Checklist and the Allergen Matrix.
• New blog post on California's AB 660 date labeling law.

Improved

• The Canada, EU and UK pages are now full labeling requirement guides with FAQs, and the Supplement Facts generator page now covers panel types, nutrient order and units.
• The FDA rounding rules guide now includes the full rounding table and a worked label, and the DV and recipe nutrition calculators gained explainers and FAQs.
• The generator now opens on an example product, and its compliance badge shows your actual checker score.
• Regulation pages and country guides now show which source they were reviewed against and when the page was last updated.
• Feature and landing pages now show a real screenshot of the generator and real example labels for US, EU and Canadian formats.
• Content pages now show breadcrumbs, keyboard navigation is easier with a skip link and visible focus, and the homepage sample label now appears on mobile.

Fixed

• The site now states the correct number of US label formats (15).

Fixed

• Net quantity of contents is now cited as 21 CFR 101.7 throughout the generator's output.

New

• We now use Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity to understand how the site and generator are used, subject to your cookie choices.

Improved

• Search improvements across 115 pages, plus fixes from a site audit.

New

• You can now export labels without an account: signed-out visitors get the same three US FDA formats and JPG export as the Free plan.
• Nutrition Facts Search, Branded Food Search and Food Comparison now suggest foods as you type.

Improved

• Watermarks have been removed from exports on every plan.
• The free tools menu now uses three columns, and the Recipes tab is hidden for signed-out visitors.
• The homepage now shows a real label produced by the generator, and the headline no longer jumps while fonts load.

Fixed

• Food Comparison no longer shows results from an earlier search under a newer search term.
• The label no longer flashes to full size when you open or close the generator sidebar.
• The selected option in the font picker is now readable in dark mode.

New

• Four new free tools: Health Star Rating, Mexico Warning Seals, Nutri-Score Calculator and UK Traffic Light Checker.

Improved

• The label formats sidebar in the generator can now be opened and closed with a menu button.
• Signed-out visitors now see a Log in button in the generator, and the recipes page now requires signing in.
• Exported files now take your document's name when no other file name is set.
• Feature, industry and comparison pages now include illustrations of the app, and each blog post has a topical illustration.
• Removed the countdown clock from the pricing page; the notify-me option remains.

Fixed

• Fixed issues in the front-of-pack label calculations.

Improved

• The website moved to a faster new framework. Every page was migrated, and the free tools, including the QR code and barcode generators and the RACC lookup, were rebuilt on it and work as before.

New

• The regulations hub now includes a full table of all 152 label formats, with country, regulation and effective date.
• Each regulation page now has a "Common questions" section covering whether a nutrition declaration is mandatory, when the rule took effect and which format applies.
• Twelve regulation explainer articles are back on the blog, available in all ten languages.

Improved

• Exports are no longer capped per month on any plan.
• Every format on the regulations hub is now filed under a region, including new Europe (non-EU) and Eurasia and Central Asia groups, so nothing sits under "Other".
• Regulation pages now link to related formats from the same country or region and to the free tools that apply, and coverage page countries link straight to their regulation page.
• Free tool pages now suggest three related tools and link to the regulations they implement and to related guides.
• Pages load faster: the initial download is smaller, fonts no longer delay the first paint, and repeat visits reuse cached files.

Fixed

• Plan feature lists on the homepage and pricing page now match what each plan includes, in every language, and the middle plan is consistently called Pro.
• Team invitation links sent by email now open correctly.

Improved

• All 152 regulation pages now include a requirements summary, with supplement reference tables, footnotes and mandatory statements for nine markets including Japan, the EU and Canada.
• Front-of-pack pages now describe their scheme in detail, and countries sharing one standard (Central America, CARICOM, Gulf states) name it and link to each other.
• Translated pages in nine languages are now properly linked, links keep you in your language, and the language menu no longer points to pages that do not exist.

Fixed

• Fixed an issue where listing, creating and costing ingredients and recipes could fail, along with attachment uploads.
• Redeemed promo codes now upgrade your plan correctly.
• Direct links, bookmarks, password-reset links and team invite links no longer redirect to the homepage or show "not found" after the page loads.
• The cookie banner's Accept all and Reject all buttons work again, and the banner no longer reappears after you have made a choice.
• The homepage now shows current plan prices and an accurate description of the Free plan.
• Embedded labels now apply their theme and fonts correctly.
• Removed the Email button from the label workbench, and corrected the API documentation for the export endpoint.

New

• The homepage now shows the current lifetime deal, as a stamp beside the label preview on desktop and a badge under the buttons on mobile.

Improved

• The pricing page now shows the lifetime price band that is currently open, so a sold-out band disappears straight away.
• Every price now notes that it excludes tax, since VAT or sales tax is added at checkout based on your location.
• The line showing what the lifetime price rises to next is now highlighted instead of shown as grey fine print.
• Regulation pages for 128 label formats now show real details such as the official citation, effective date, mandatory nutrients, energy units, label language and front-of-pack scheme.
• 62 more country pages, including Azerbaijan, Uganda, Kazakhstan and Trinidad and Tobago, now have country-specific titles.

Fixed

• The advertised lifetime price is now applied at checkout, including when you switch to a lifetime licence from the monthly checkout.
• Links to retired blog posts now redirect correctly, and the regulation "Deep dive" and popular posts sections show only published posts.
• The blog RSS feed now links to the correct website.

New

• Before launch you can leave your email on the pricing page and reserve the plan you want, with a countdown shown as labelled day, hour, minute and second tiles.
• Checkout for paid plans is set up ahead of launch, with purchases tied to your account email and purchase emails covering first steps, plan limits and refunds.

Improved

• Links in body text are now underlined so they stand out without relying on colour, and footer social links have larger tap targets.
• Lifetime licences are now sold in limited price bands that rise as each band sells out, with 5 years of updates included.
• The refund policy is now 7 days for monthly, annual and lifetime plans, stated the same way on the refunds page and in every language.

Fixed

• Pricing plan cards and comparison tables now stack into one or two columns on phones and tablets instead of running off the screen.
• Removed sideways scrolling on small phones across the site, including the header on 320px screens and the Recipe Scaler on mobile.
• Plan reservations, the pricing email box and the newsletter signup now tell you when a save fails and keep your entry so you can retry.
• Fixed an issue that blocked label exports and stopped plan changes from being applied to accounts.
• Security hardening for account and billing data.

New

• Five new free tools: Nutrition Facts Search, Branded Food Search, Food Comparison, Nutrient Ranking and Recipe Scaler.
• Nutrient Target Checker: shows Dietary Reference Intakes for 11 nutrients by age, sex and life stage, including pregnancy and lactation.
• PDP Area and Type Size Calculator gives the principal display panel area and minimum type sizes in inches, millimetres and points.
• Canada Front-of-Package Symbol Checker (SOR/2022-168) shows which nutrients trigger the "High in" symbol, in English and French, using the correct threshold band.
• The pricing page shows a countdown to 1 September 2026, when checkout opens, and a waitlist signup in the meantime.

Improved

• Faster homepage and blog posts, a mobile-friendly cookie banner, better text contrast, and accessible labels on the language and menu buttons.
• The blog uses numbered pages instead of a Load more button, and shows a reload notice if a post fails to load.

Fixed

• Barcodes now render on a solid white background, so they display in dark mode and downloaded PNGs scan on dark artwork.
• The Coverage page now loads correctly, and affiliate referrals are credited correctly.
• Security hardening for pages that require sign-in.

New

• Added Urdu as a site language, with right-to-left layout.
• Promo codes: redeem a code on the My Account page for time-limited full access and see its status.

Improved

• Faster page loads: the generator, inventory, recipes, dashboard and account pages now load on demand, cutting the main download from 6.3 MB to 1.9 MB.
• The blog is now a Resource Center with category tabs, search and popular posts, and FAQ pages have a jump-link table of contents.
• The API documentation now uses a three-pane reference layout with a sticky navigation menu and code examples.
• Every page now has its own title, description and social sharing preview.
• Visual updates: a solid navigation bar, a larger logo, better contrast on tool icons and the lifetime plan card, and placeholder ad slots removed.

Fixed

• Fixed a performance issue that could make the label generator unresponsive.
• Fixed a team permissions bug, and team settings now show translated text in every language.
• Fixed broken links, including on the Urdu pages, and an error on some blog posts.

New

• Inventory and lot tracing: manage raw materials, finished goods and suppliers, import items from saved recipes, log production runs, and follow a 7-step setup checklist.
• Production runs prefill the earliest-expiring lot (FEFO) and, when closed, offer a print-ready batch label with the saved nutrition label, lot code, date and quantity.
• Recall tracing follows a lot forward and backward through production runs, and downloads a one-click recall report PDF with a sign-off block.
• Live label embeds: Professional plans and above can place an auto-updating nutrition label on any website with a one-line script or iframe.
• The label editor shows live FDA nutrient content claim alerts with CFR citations, and an overrides panel lists hand-edited values with a reset to automatic.
• My Account page: change email or password, turn on two-factor sign-in, and manage your subscription, billing history, team, addresses and the affiliate program.
• New help pages: FAQs for labels, recipes and inventory, an API reference, a feature index, and a coverage page listing all 114 supported countries.

Improved

• Recipes have their own page with recipe, ingredients, statement, allergens, cost, breakdown and card tabs, and drafts now autosave to the cloud.
• Downgrading now includes a 60-day grace period with a dashboard countdown and options to export a JSON backup or delete data.

Fixed

• Security hardening for billing, plan limits, file exports and inventory pages.

Improved

• Pricing page: the lifetime plan now appears near the top, with larger section headings and widths aligned to the header and footer.

New

• Nutrition label generator with 152 label formats covering 114 countries, a recipe engine and cloud save for your work.
• The site is available in 10 languages, with translated pages and language-specific web addresses.
• Pricing with four plans plus a lifetime option, including published plan limits and billing rules.
• Added a contact page and a 404 page for broken links.

Improved

• The label generator now requires sign-in, while the free tools stay open to everyone without an account.

Fixed

• Fixed mobile layout, sign-in, cookie banner and right-to-left language display issues.
• Fixed label zoom and fit-to-screen behavior in the generator.
• Fixed an autosave issue that could cause unsaved changes to be lost, plus several issues in the free tools.

• Recipe version history with automatic snapshots.
• Cost history charts on the Ingredients dashboard.
• Newsletter signup form in the footer.
• 50 new blog posts covering FDA and EU labeling, supplements, recipes and food business operations.

• Full-width mode for the Recipe, Ingredients, Allergens and Cost tabs.
• New Recipe and Ingredients dashboards.
• The Custom Ingredient form expanded to six sections.
• Ingredient cost history.

• Choline added to the optional vitamins, with daily values for adults (550 mg), children (200 mg) and infants (150 mg).
• Standard label: right-aligned amounts, hairlines between vitamins, and biotin and iodine shown in mcg.
• Optional macronutrients can be added to the standard label.

• US FDA Supplement Facts panel for adults (21 CFR 101.36).
• Supplement Facts variants for children 1 to 3 years, infants, and pregnant and lactating women.
• PDCAAS protein quality score.
• Recipe scaling, for example 2x or 0.5x.

• India Nutrition Rating (INR) star label format.
• Updated Nutri-Score algorithm.
• FDA Nutrient Content Claim Validator tool.
• RACC Lookup tool with 79 FDA reference amounts.

• 46 new country formats, including Chile, Mexico (NOM-051), Argentina (Law 27.642), Brazil (ANVISA), Panama and Central America.
• Country-specific rounding rules.