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Product category

Reference amount

Label statement 4

Bakery products

 

 

Bagels, toaster pastries, muffins

(excluding English muffins)

110 g

_ piece(s) (_ g)

Biscuits, croissants, tortillas, soft bread sticks, soft pretzels, corn bread, hush puppies, scones, crumpets, English muffins

55 g

_ piece(s) (_ g)

Breads (excluding sweet quick type), rolls

50 g

_ piece(s) (_ g) for sliced bread and distinct pieces (e.g., rolls); 2 oz (56 g/_ inch slice) for unsliced bread

Bread sticks--see crackers

 

 

Toaster pastries--see coffee cakes

 

 

Brownies

40 g

_ piece(s) (_ g) for distinct pieces; fractional slice (_ g) for bulk

Cakes, heavy weight (cheese cake; pineapple upside-down cake; fruit, nut, and vegetable cakes with more than or equal to 35 percent of the finished weight as fruit, nuts, or vegetables or any of these combined)[1]

125 g

_ piece(s) (_ g) for distinct pieces

(e.g., sliced or individually packaged products); _ fractional slice (_ g) for large discrete units

Cakes, medium weight

(chemically leavened cake

with or without icing or filling except those classified as light weight cake; fruit, nut, and vegetable cake with less than 35 percent of the finished weight as fruit, nuts, or vegetables or any of these combined; light weight cake with icing; Boston cream pie; cupcake; eclair; cream puff)[2]

80 g

_ piece(s) (_ g) for distinct pieces

(e.g., cupcake); _ fractional slice

(_ g) for large discrete units 

 

Product category

Reference amount

Label statement  


Cakes, light weight (angel food, chiffon, or sponge cake without icing or filling)[3]

55 g

_ piece(s) (_ g) for distinct pieces

(e.g., sliced or individually packaged products); _ fractional slice (_ g) for large discrete units

Coffee cakes, crumb cakes, doughnuts, Danish, sweet rolls, sweet quick type breads, muffins, toaster pastries

55 g

_ piece(s) (_ g) for sliced bread and distinct pieces (e.g., doughnut); 2 oz (56 g/visual unit of measure) for bulk products (e.g., unsliced bread)

Cookies

30 g

_ piece(s) (_ g)

Crackers that are usually not used as snack, melba toast, hard bread sticks, ice cream cones[4]

15 g

_ piece(s) (_ g)

Crackers that are usually used as snacks

30 g

_ piece(s) (_ g)

Croutons

7 g

_ tbsp(s) (_ g); _ cup(s) (_ g); _ piece(s) (_ g) for large pieces

Eggroll, dumpling, wonton, or potsticker wrappers

20 g

_ sheet (_ g); wrapper (_ g)

French toast, crepes, pancakes, variety mixes

110 g prepared for French toast, crepes, and pancakes; 40 g dry mix for variety mixes

_ piece(s) (_ g); _ cup(s) (_ g) for dry mix

Grain-based bars with or without filling or coating, e.g., breakfast bars, granola bars, rice cereal bars

40 g

_ piece(s) (_ g)

Ice cream cones--see crackers

 

 

Pies, cobblers, fruit crisps, turnovers, other pastries

125 g

_ piece(s) (_g) for distinct pieces;

_ fractional slice (_ g) for large discrete units

Pie crust, pie shells, pastry sheets (e.g., phyllo, puff pastry sheets)

the allowable declaration closest to an 8 square inch surface area

_ fractional slice(s) (_ g) for large discrete units; _ shells (_ g); _fractional _ sheet(s) (_ g) for distinct pieces (e.g., Pastry sheet).

Pizza crust

55 g

_ fractional slice (_ g)

Taco shells, hard

30 g

_ shell(s) (_ g)

Waffles

85 g

_ piece(s) (_ g)

[1] Includes cakes that weigh 10 g or more per cubic inch. The serving for fruitcake is 1 ½ ounces.

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[4] Label serving size for ice cream cones and eggs of all sizes will be 1 unit. Label serving size of all chewing gums that weigh more than the reference amount that can reasonably be consumed at a single-eating occasion will be 1 unit.

Reference: https://www.fda.gov/downloads/food/guidanceregulation/guidancedocumentsregulatoryinformation/labelingnutrition/ucm513820.pdf