TFDA 營養標示 (8 items): Taiwan nutrition label

Nutrition labelling requirements in Taiwan

Packaged food sold in Taiwan must carry a nutrition declaration under 包裝食品營養標示應遵行事項 (MOHW, TFDA). This page covers the Taiwan - TFDA 營養標示 (8 items) format: Traditional Chinese per-serving + per-100g table with 每日參考值 % column. A compliant Taiwan TFDA nutrition label declares 8 mandatory nutrients: 熱量, 蛋白質, 脂肪, 飽和脂肪, 反式脂肪, 碳水化合物, 糖 and 鈉. Values are declared per 100 g or 100 ml and per serving, both columns required, with energy in kcal, and sodium rather than salt. The panel is headed "營養標示". ZH-TW is required on pack. NutritionFactLabel builds a print-ready Taiwan TFDA nutrition label from your recipe, applying the rounding rules and reference intakes for Taiwan automatically, and exports it as PDF, PNG, SVG, JPG or EPS.

Official regulation

Key facts

Taiwan nutrition labeling requirements for prepackaged foods

Nutrition labeling is mandatory for prepackaged foods sold in Taiwan under Article 22 of the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation, unless an exemption applies. The detailed rules are in the Regulations on Nutrition Labeling for Prepackaged Food Products, in force, most recently amended with effect from 1 July 2024.

Some products are exempt when they make no nutrition claims, including drinking and mineral water, ice, certain unprocessed foods with no added ingredients, spices, salt and salt substitutes, and foods or raw materials not sold to consumers. If an exempt product carries a nutrition label voluntarily, the label must still follow the rules.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare is the central competent authority, with the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) handling food labeling rules and guidance, and local governments sharing enforcement.

Source: Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation, Laws and Regulations Database, and TFDA, Regulations on Prepackaged Food Products Exempted from the Nutrition Labeling.

The mandatory 8 items on a TFDA nutrition label

The nutrition information must be shown conspicuously on the package, normally as a table titled "Nutrition Facts" (營養標示), with the serving size and the number of servings per package. The mandatory declaration covers eight items:

• calories (kcal);
• protein, fat, saturated fat, trans fat, carbohydrate and sugars (g); and
• sodium (mg).

Any nutrient linked to a nutrition claim must also be declared. Other items, such as dietary fiber, cholesterol, sugar alcohols, other fatty acids and amino acids, may be added voluntarily in the positions the regulation sets out.

Values must come from analysis or calculation and stay within the allowed tolerances.

Source: TFDA, Regulations on Nutrition Labeling for Prepackaged Food Products.

Per serving, per 100 g and daily reference value formats

A per-serving column is mandatory, paired with one of two options:

• values per 100 g or 100 ml; or
• the percentage of the daily reference value for each nutrient.

Where the daily reference value format is used, the reference intakes must be identified, with an exemption for very small labels. For a nutrient with no daily reference value, an asterisk is placed on its percentage line with a statement that the value has not been set, which is mandatory.

Infant foods must use the per serving and per 100 g or 100 ml format, while qualifying tablets and capsules use the daily reference value format. This two-format choice is a key difference from Hong Kong, which works per 100 g or 100 ml, and from the US, which works per serving.

Source: TFDA, Regulations on Nutrition Labeling for Prepackaged Food Products.

Chinese-language labels and imported foods

Article 22 makes Chinese labeling mandatory: the required particulars must appear in Chinese and common symbols. In practice this means traditional Chinese characters as used in Taiwan, although the law itself simply says "Chinese".

For domestic products that also use a foreign language, the Enforcement Rules require the Chinese to be primary and the foreign language supplementary. Imported foods may enter Taiwan and have a Chinese label added in line with the Act.

Imported foods that will be repackaged, sub-packaged or further processed in Taiwan may complete their Chinese labeling before sale rather than at import, under conditions in the Enforcement Rules. Imports sold as they are must carry compliant Chinese labeling before they go on sale.

Source: Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation, Article 22, and TFDA, Food Labeling Regulations Handbook.

Sources

Primary documents this page was written from, checked 2026-10-04.

• Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation (Laws and Regulations Database)
• TFDA, Regulations on Nutrition Labeling for Prepackaged Food Products
• TFDA, Amendment to the Regulations on Nutrition Labeling, effective 1 July 2024
• TFDA, Regulations on Prepackaged Food Products Exempted from the Nutrition Labeling
• TFDA, Food Labeling Regulations Handbook

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