Search our custom database, or add your own ingredients
Our nutrition label generator makes it easy to create FDA and CFIA-compliant labels from anywhere. With recipe costing and inventory to improve your business.
Huge custom database for nutrition labeling, with automated ingredient lists and allergens. Work efficiently with copy, scale, and subrecipe features.
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"Food analysis was not a task I wanted to take on, but it turned out to be straightforward with ReciPal."
Mary Mentzer Owner, Eat Drink & Meet Mary
Choose from a variety of label styles, with sensible defaults and options ensuring you stay compliant. Save and print your label in designer friendly formats including PDF, PNG, and embed codes.
"So many of our small businesses struggle to get nutrition labels done, this is a much needed resource that we'll be incorporating into our curriculum"
Leticia Program Developer, La Cocina Incubator
Include food, packaging, labor, and overhead to understand your costs, margins, and profit. Make decisions on pricing and cost-cutting easy.
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"I simply love the user interface and ability to track an ingredient's cost to calculate the recipe cost. Doing that myself was always a real headache."
James Spence Owner, Unique Tastes Bakery
Automatically create ingredient lists and allergens based on your recipe, with full customization and control.
Learn More About Ingredient ListsAutomatically update inventory levels. Easy lot tracking and traceability. Production reports even when you're not there.
Learn More About InventoryYour recipes are privately and securely backed up, and you can access them from anywhere, anytime, on any device.
Learn More About Recipe ManagementReal experts helping in real time. We take your feedback and build it into ReciPal.
“We couldn't find an affordable labeling option for all our flavors and ReciPal was the solution.”
“ReciPal took the fear factor out of getting intimidating nutrition facts done. It made sense and simplified the technical aspects.”
“ReciPal customer service went above and beyond to create a custom label and triangulated tricky ingredient data for us.”
“Other software wasn't user friendly. If Apple were to make nutrition label software it would look like ReciPal.”
“So many of our small businesses struggle to get nutrition labels done, this is a much needed resource that we'll be incorporating into our curriculum.”
Leticia Program Developer, La Cocina Incubator
“I love your product as a start-up food company! Thanks so much!”
Kristy Owner, Paleo Supply Co
“This is really wonderful!!! Thank you!”
Sausan Owner, Bitchin’ Baklava
“Great service! Will definitely use again. Will recommend highly to others.”
Alan Operations, Carolina Farmin’
“ReciPal is a brilliant product. I've gone through a number of alternatives and I really appreciate how much this has simplified my life.”
Kevin Co-Founder, immi
“I wish I had known about this earlier! I just wasted $160 getting my nutritionals done!”
Cesario Manager, El Pajaro Kitchen
Join some of the most successful food brands in creating nutrition labels, costing your products, and tracking inventory on ReciPal.
ReciPal combines FDA and CFIA-compliant nutrition labeling with recipe costing, inventory management, and traceability in one affordable platform. Built specifically for growing food businesses, ReciPal provides strong guardrails to ensure compliance with unmatched flexibility to work for different use cases. It automatically handles serving size rules, rounding, allergens, ingredient statements, and label formatting. It's designed to be fast enough for startups but powerful enough for growing brands managing multiple SKUs, advanced R&D, and complex production workflows. ReciPal was designed around the realities of running a food business, where flexibility, accuracy, and ease of use matter every day.
ReciPal is designed for growing food brands that need easy-to-use, reliable tools without enterprise-level complexity. It works especially well for CPG brands, bakeries, beverage companies, commercial kitchens, co-packers, meal prep companies, and specialty food manufacturers. Whether you're launching your first product at a farmers market or managing hundreds of SKUs across retail channels, ReciPal helps centralize recipes, nutrition labels, costing, inventory, and compliance in one system. Many businesses start with labeling and expand into inventory and production management as they grow.
With ReciPal, you can create nutrition labels in minutes by simply entering your recipe ingredients and batch information. Start by searching our extensive database or easily adding your own custom ingredients with our AI ingredient upload. ReciPal automatically calculates nutrition values, serving sizes, ingredient statements, allergens, and applies FDA or CFIA-compliant formatting. You can customize label layouts, export print-ready files, and update recipes anytime. All FDA and CFIA label formats are available and this system is continually updated to adhere to any regulatory changes.
No, you don't need special knowledge to create nutrition labels with ReciPal. ReciPal is designed for food business owners, not regulatory specialists or food scientists. The platform guides you through recipe setup and automatically handles many of the complicated parts of compliance, including serving size calculations, nutrient rounding rules, ingredient ordering, and allergen formatting. You don't need prior FDA or CFIA regulatory experience or nutrition science knowledge to create professional labels. ReciPal also provides unrivaled customer support via phone, chat, or email and has expert review options if you need additional guidance.
Yes. ReciPal's nutrition label maker supports both FDA and CFIA nutrition labeling requirements and automatically applies the formatting and rounding rules required for compliance. The platform generates compliant nutrition facts panels, ingredient statements, allergen declarations, and serving sizes based on regulations. ReciPal continuously updates the software as labeling requirements evolve, helping food businesses stay compliant without manually tracking regulation changes. Customers selling in both the United States and Canada can manage both label formats from the same account. Unlike other software options, regulatory compliance is dynamically built into ReciPal.
ReciPal offers absolutely free nutrition label templates that let you create and download compliant nutrition facts labels at no cost. If you need to calculate nutrition, ReciPal offers 1 free recipe with access to all of the features just by signing up with your email. This free recipe has a watermark on the label download that can be removed for $29. ReciPal is one of the only platforms that allows for individual label purchases -- perfect for small businesses. Paid subscriptions start at $59/month and let you make up to 50 recipes each month. Many businesses start with the free version then upgrade. There are no sales teams, contracts, hidden fees, or premium features. Pricing stays affordable as businesses scale. You can cancel any time and come back right where you left off. You never lose access to your recipes, even if you cancel.
ReciPal's FDA and CFIA nutrition label templates are completely free. If you know your product's nutrition, we provide robust options to easily create compliant labels. The free trial of the nutrition label maker gives you 60 days to test out all of the features and make sure ReciPal is the right fit for you. From there, you can purchase individual recipes for $29 or activate a subscription to create unlimited recipes. As your business grows you can add on other features like inventory management. ReciPal offers monthly or annual subscriptions, makes it easy to cancel any time, and never holds your data hostage.
ReciPal can generate extremely accurate nutrition analysis. We offer reliable ingredient nutrition information from the USDA database and support custom ingredient creation. Additionally, we make it easy to capture what happens during product processing. Ultimately, the level of accuracy depends on the quality of underlying ingredients and the precision with which the product's processing is captured. Database analysis is a widely used FDA-approved method of creating nutrition labels and ReciPal provides one of the most accurate software tools on the market.
Yes. ReciPal is built to manage multiple products, recipes, and label versions from one centralized system. Many ReciPal users have thousands of recipes and complex workflows. It is easy to search recipes by name, tag, date, or ingredients. All recipes automatically generate a history that shows timestamped records of every change. Further, ReciPal is a dynamic system meaning updates on ingredient costs, nutritional values, or names automatically flow through instead of requiring manual edits in multiple places. This is especially helpful for growing brands managing seasonal products, multiple package sizes, or retailer-specific label variations.
ReciPal lets you export nutrition labels in print-ready formats (PDF or PNG) that can be used directly with packaging artwork, commercial printers, or label printing software. You can download high-resolution vector files and place them into your package design using standard design tools. ReciPal makes it easy to size your label with the ability to show or hide different sections and quickly adjust the sizing within the software.
ReciPal has a whole host of useful features. For nutrition fact panels, ReciPal offers cutting-edge features like AI ingredient creation and recipe setup, plus a robust API integration. You can easily create accurate labels with the intelligent serving size finder, moisture loss adjustments, subrecipes (turning a recipe into an ingredient), bioengineered claims, PDCAAS adjustments, dynamic nutrient content claims, barcodes, and overrides. Beyond nutrition fact panels, ReciPal includes ingredient statements, automated allergen declarations, recipe costing, detailed nutrition breakdowns, spec sheet generation, inventory management, purchase orders, production records, batch tracking, ingredient management, and traceability tools. ReciPal keeps everything connected so recipe updates automatically affect labels, costs, and production data.
ReciPal offers a few simple pricing options. Businesses that just need a few labels can purchase individual recipes for $29. ReciPal has two tiers of subscriptions based on the needs of your company. The Business plan lets you have one user and up to 50 recipes every month for $59/month. The Business Plus plan lets you have up to 5 users and unlimited recipes for $129/month. Both plans give you full access to features. You can access your recipes from anywhere, on any device. There's no sales team, implementation fees, or long-term contracts. You can pay month to month, cancel anytime, and never lose access to your data. This makes ReciPal accessible for startups while still supporting larger and more complex food operations as they grow.
Packaged foods do not require lab tests or FDA or CFIA pre-approval before being sold. Database analysis software, like ReciPal, is an approved and widely used method of generating nutrition labels. Lab testing is optional and may be useful in some circumstances. However, many major food businesses use database analysis software as their primary labeling method and it can even be more accurate than individual lab tests. ReciPal offers lab testing through our partner lab for any clients who may want it.
In the rare case our database doesn't have your ingredient, ReciPal supports custom ingredients, so you can enter supplier-specific nutrition data when needed. With AI ingredient upload the process is extremely efficient. You do not always need the exact retail brand to create accurate nutrition analysis, especially for commodity ingredients like flour, sugar, or butter. However, for proprietary ingredients or products with unique formulations, using supplier nutrition information can improve accuracy. ReciPal is designed to handle both standardized ingredients and highly customized formulations.
ReciPal has fast and knowledgeable US-based customer support. During business hours the team is available via chat, email, and phone. You'll connect with someone that understands food labeling and food business operations, not just generic software troubleshooting. Customers can get help with recipe setup, compliance questions, label formatting, inventory workflows, and operational best practices. The platform also includes tutorials, onboarding resources, and detailed help documentation. Many customers choose ReciPal because they want responsive support from people familiar with FDA and CFIA labeling requirements and the realities of running a food business. Expert consulting services are also available.
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