How do you create a nutrition facts label?

Question

A nutrition facts label is required on most pre-packaged food in North America. How would someone go about creating one for one of their products?

Answer 1

This is actually a great question, I've been through this and I can tell you this; if you will produce more than 10,000 units or will have I believe 10 or more employees then you need a nutrition label and it needs to be displayed in certain areas. You can find an independent food lab in the yellow pages under laboratory. Now things may of changed so I would suggest going to the FDA website (www.fda.gov) just type in business in the search bar and you'll find tons of info regarding policies. I would suggest if you are serious, finding out if a college near you deals with the culinary arts and if they have any cross classes in business that may help people out for class projects etc.

Answer 2

So far, all I have found is software that you can get a free demo of and it will do the work for you when you type in the ingredients. I am looking for a free software that will do this.

We can use an image to do this as well. Just copy an image and write your information into it. Using a simple image editor such as MS Paint, will work. The problem doing it this way is you have to look all the ingredients up and do a lot of math :)