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The available Display Options depend on which label template you selected, but for the most part, your menu will look much like this:

Display Options: Standard Labels
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Label Formatting

Use the Simplified format

The Simplified format may be used if 8 or more nutrients are present in your Recipe in insignificant amounts.

  • Check Use the Simplified format

When you check this, most of the insignificant nutrients will be moved to a footnote, and it will look like so:

  • Check “Use ‘Not a significant source of other nutrients’” to show that instead of the full footnote listing the specific nutrient names.

Vitamins and Minerals

Use all Abbreviations

  • Check Use all Abbreviations to display the shortest allowable, version of a nutrient or other label element.

Some examples:

  • Potass. for Potassium

  • Incl. for Includes

  • Vit. C for Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)

Hide quantitative values

This option will hide the quantitative values (the mg, g, etc., values) for most of the voluntary nutrients.

Note

This is for certain small labels or zero-calorie foods only. If used incorrectly, hiding quantitative values could result in non-compliance.

  • Check Hide quantitative values

Footnotes

  • Select the radio button for your desired footnote.

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Make sure to check the regulations for those instances when you can hide the footnote. 21 CFR 101.9(d)(9)

Added Sugars Only

If your product is a single-ingredient sugar product, like honey or table sugar, you qualify for special formatting.

To use the special formatting

  • Check This is for a single-ingredient sugar product

  • Your Label will render without the “Added Sugars” text in its line, but with the %DV followed by a footnote indicator (99% of the time, this will be the dagger symbol). In addition, an explanatory footnote will appear, like so:

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In most cases, you will also be able to use the Simplified label format for your single-ingredient sugar product.

Display Options: Tabular Labels

Vitamins and Minerals

Use all Abbreviations

  • Check Use all Abbreviations to display the shortest allowable, version of a nutrient or other label element.

Some examples:

  • Potass. for Potassium

  • Incl. for Includes

  • Vit. C for Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)

Hide quantitative values

This option will hide the quantitative values (the mg, g, etc., values) for most of the voluntary nutrients.

Note

This is for certain small labels or zero-calorie foods only. If used incorrectly, hiding quantitative values could result in non-compliance.

  • Check Hide quantitative values

Footnotes

  • Select the radio button for your desired footnote.

Info

Make sure to check the regulations for those instances when you can hide the footnote. 21 CFR 101.9(d)(9)

Added Sugars Only

If your product is a single-ingredient sugar product, like honey or table sugar, you qualify for special formatting.

To use the special formatting

  • Check This is for a single-ingredient sugar product

  • Your Label will render without the “Added Sugars” text in its line, but with the %DV followed by a footnote indicator (99% of the time, this will be the dagger symbol). In addition, an explanatory footnote will appear, like so:

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