Ingredient Bolding Adds Clarity to Nutrition Labels

Posted on March 26, 2026 by

We’ve added a simple, flexible way to bold parts of your ingredient statement while keeping your label compliant.

Why use bolding?

Based on your style and product you may have different formatting needs. Now you can:

  • Bold just the “Ingredients” heading
  • Highlight main ingredients while keeping sub-ingredients unbolded
  • Bold everything for a stronger visual style

For example, highlighting main ingredients is an easy way to make long ingredient lists more readable and less overwhelming.

How it works

On the bottom of the Ingredient Statement page, choose your preferred bolding options:


Bolding options

If you need more control you can use <b></b> tags in:

  • The manual edit section
  • The “Show on Label” column

Because ReciPal is dynamic, any formatting updates you make to a specific ingredient will automatically apply across all recipes that use it.

Built with compliance in mind

  • U.S. labels allow flexible formatting (including bolding for emphasis, like allergens)
  • Canadian labels do not allow bolding within the ingredient statement

So bolding options for Canadian labels will be grayed out because they're not applicable.

Final Thoughts

We want to give you more control over how your labels look without adding extra work or risk. If there are other features that would save time and help you better customize your label just let us know!


About Jack Scotti

Jack Scotti ReciPal

Jack Scotti is the director of marketing at ReciPal. Prior to joining the team he was a founder of Story2, an edtech company that teaches people how to advocate for themselves through the neuroscience of storytelling. One of the first activities in any Story2 workshop was to share a memorable meal story. So even before working in the food industry, he got to experience the amazing way food connects us all. (Ask him about his family’s feast of the 7 fishes or only eating ravioli in multiples of four.) Now, he couldn’t be more excited to help food business create more dinner table memories.

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