Free Supplement Facts label generator (21 CFR 101.36)
Build an FDA-compliant Supplement Facts panel from your formula: the correct ingredient order, the Daily Values for adults, children, infants, pregnancy and lactation, the dagger footnote for ingredients without a DV, proprietary blends, botanicals with plant part and extract ratio, and the "Other ingredients" line. Nine US panel types plus the EU, UK, Canada, India and Brazil supplement regimes, from one formula. Free to start, no signup, no watermark.
Reviewed against 21 CFR § 101.36 (Nutrition labeling of dietary supplements) · Page updated October 2, 2026
How to make a Supplement Facts label with this tool
1. Pick the panel. Open the generator and choose the Supplement Facts variant for your population: adult (the default), children one to three, infants, pregnant, lactating, or one of the multi-column layouts for a product taken in several servings a day or split into AM and PM packets.
2. Set the serving. A supplement serving is the amount the manufacturer recommends, not a reference amount: "1 capsule", "2 gummies", "1 scoop (30 g)". Enter the household measure and, where it applies, the weight, and the servings per container.
3. Add the ingredients. Enter each dietary ingredient with its amount per serving and, where the rule requires, its source in parentheses ("Vitamin C (as ascorbic acid)"). Ingredients with an FDA Daily Value go above the bar with their %DV computed for you; botanicals, amino acids and other ingredients without a DV drop below it with the dagger. Group proprietary-blend components and enter the blend's total weight.
4. Check and export. The panel re-renders live in the prescribed order, units and type sizes, with the footnotes the rule requires. Add the "Other ingredients" line and the allergen statement, then export a print-ready JPG free, or PNG, PDF and SVG on a paid plan, and drop the file into your packaging artwork.
Supplement Facts is not Nutrition Facts
Dietary supplements are labeled under 21 CFR 101.36, and the differences from the food rule are exactly where a food-label tool goes wrong. The panel is titled "Supplement Facts". It lists dietary ingredients, not just nutrients, and it lists them in two groups: those with an FDA Daily Value (the vitamins, minerals and the macronutrients that are present in more than trivial amounts) above a heavy bar with a %DV column, and those without a Daily Value (botanicals, amino acids, enzymes, probiotics) below the bar, each marked with a dagger and the footnote "† Daily Value not established". Nutrients present at zero are simply omitted rather than declared as zero, the reverse of the food panel. The source of each ingredient may be given in parentheses, and for botanicals the plant part must be named. Below the panel, everything that is not a dietary ingredient goes in an "Other ingredients" list in descending order by weight.
Using a Nutrition Facts panel on a supplement, or a Supplement Facts panel on a conventional food, is a misbranding error in itself. The Supplement Facts vs Nutrition Facts guide lays the two panels side by side; the adult Supplement Facts format page shows the rendered panel with its citations.
The order, the units and the Daily Values
101.36(b)(2) fixes the order of the dietary ingredients with Daily Values: calories, calories from fat (no longer required), total fat, saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, sodium, total carbohydrate, dietary fiber, total sugars, added sugars, protein, then vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B6, folate, vitamin B12, biotin, pantothenic acid, choline, calcium, iron, phosphorus, iodine, magnesium, zinc, selenium, copper, manganese, chromium, molybdenum, chloride, potassium. Only the ones present in the product appear; the macronutrients appear only when present above the thresholds the rule sets.
The 2016 update changed the units, and old panels still get these wrong: vitamin A in mcg RAE (not IU), vitamin D in mcg (IU may follow in parentheses), vitamin E in mg alpha-tocopherol, folate in mcg DFE with the folic acid amount in parentheses, niacin in mg NE. The Daily Values are the same 2016 set the food panel uses (adults and children four and over), with separate sets for infants through 12 months, children one through three, and pregnant and lactating women; a panel for a child or pregnancy product must use its own set and say so in the column heading. %DV is rounded to the nearest whole percent; values below 2% may be shown as "less than 2%" or by the symbol the rule allows. The free Daily Value calculator converts an amount to %DV for any nutrient and population, and the unit converter handles IU to mcg.
Proprietary blends, botanicals and "Other ingredients"
A proprietary blend is declared by its name, its total weight per serving, and its components in descending order by weight without individual amounts, all below the bar with the dagger. The name "Proprietary Blend" or a fanciful name may be used, and the components may be listed in a single line separated by commas. The practice is legal and common, and increasingly unpopular with retailers and consumers who want per-ingredient amounts; the generator supports both.
A botanical must carry the standardised common name or, where there is none, the Latin binomial, and the part of the plant (root, leaf, aerial parts); an extract must say so and may give the extract ratio and the solvent. Probiotics may be declared by weight or, since FDA's 2018 guidance, additionally in colony forming units. Amino acids, enzymes and other non-nutrient ingredients follow the same below-the-bar treatment.
Other ingredients: capsule material, excipients, flow agents, colours, flavours and sweeteners go in a separate list immediately below the panel in descending order of predominance by weight, with the same allergen obligations as a food; the nine major allergens (milk, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat, soybeans, sesame) must be declared, usually in a "Contains:" line. The generator builds the ingredient list and the allergen line from the same formula.
Nine US panel types, and when each applies
Every variant is rendered by the same engine with the same citations, so switching a formula from an adult to a prenatal panel changes the Daily Values, the column heading and nothing else. Small-package rules in 101.36(i) permit a reduced type size and, on very small containers, a tabular or linear presentation; choose the variant the available surface allows rather than shrinking the standard panel.
Type size, layout and what an inspector measures
The panel is boxed with hairlines, set in a single easy-to-read type style, black or one colour on a white or neutral background. The title "Supplement Facts" is the largest type on the panel; the minimum for the rest is 8 point on standard packages, smaller on packages with limited space under 101.36(i), with the same requirements as the food panel for leading, kerning and contrast. The "Serving Size" and "Servings Per Container" lines sit directly under the title, "Amount Per Serving" and "% Daily Value" head the columns, and the footnote conventions (the dagger, the "Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet" statement when a macronutrient with a DV is declared) are fixed text.
What gets a warning letter is rarely the layout. It is a missing plant part, an IU-only vitamin D line, a %DV computed against the wrong population, a proprietary blend with no total weight, an "Other ingredients" list out of order, or a structure/function claim on the front of the pack without the required disclaimer. Each of those is a data error, not a design error, which is why the panel is built from the formula rather than drawn.
Beyond the panel: claims, the disclaimer and registration
Under DSHEA, supplements need no pre-market approval, but a structure/function claim ("supports immune health") requires the exact disclaimer "These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease." on the label, and notification to FDA within 30 days of marketing. A new dietary ingredient not marketed in the US before 15 October 1994 needs a 75-day pre-market notification. The statement of identity must include the word "supplement" ("dietary supplement", "herbal supplement"), the net quantity, the name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer or distributor, and, for most products, a domestic address or phone number for adverse-event reports. Manufacturing must follow the supplement cGMPs in 21 CFR 111.
Nutrient content claims ("high in vitamin C") and health claims are governed by the same 21 CFR 101 rules as foods; the claim validator checks the conditions against the panel values. The FDA requirements guide covers the food side of the same regulation.
Supplements outside the US
No other market accepts the US panel, and each has its own regime from the same formula: the EU labels food supplements under Directive 2002/46/EC with amounts per recommended daily dose and %NRV (EU format); the UK keeps that regime as assimilated law (UK format); Canada treats most supplements as natural health products with a licence number and a Product Facts table (Canada format); India regulates health supplements and nutraceuticals under the FSSAI 2016 regulations with %RDA per ICMR values (India format); and Brazil under ANVISA RDC 243/2018 with %VD per daily dose (Brazil format). Switching the formula between them changes the reference values, the units, the language and the layout; the coverage page lists every supplement regime supported.
Canva, Illustrator and the design workflow
Design tools are excellent at packaging and structurally unable to produce a compliant panel: they do not know the ingredient order, the Daily Values, the unit conversions or the dagger rule, and a template copied from another product carries that product's errors. The practical workflow is to generate the compliant panel here, export it as SVG or vector PDF, and place the file into the Canva or Illustrator artwork. Design stays in the design tool; the regulated part stays regulated, and when a Daily Value or a unit changes the panel is regenerated rather than redrawn.