Do I have to use an aggregate label for my variety pack?

No. FDA allows an aggregate display for variety packs but doesn't require it. What you do need is nutrition information for every variety in the pack, and separate panels give you that.

Can I combine the foods into one set of numbers?

No. A variety pack gives nutrition information for each variety, each per its own serving size. Nothing is added up across foods.

Which serving size goes in each column?

Each food's own, based on the reference amount for its category. An oat bar (40 g) and a bag of nuts (30 g) in the same box have different serving sizes.

What does it cost to label a variety pack?

One label per variety: $29 each, 3 labels for $69 or 10 labels for $199, and credits never expire. With many products, Unlimited is $399 a year.

Do you make aggregate Supplement Facts for packet products?

No. We make one Supplement Facts panel per formula. Separate panels for each packet are allowed, and so is one aggregate panel built from them.

Aggregate Nutrition Label

Aggregate nutrition label means one Nutrition Facts panel with a column for each food in a variety pack, like a box of mixed snack bars. FDA allows it but doesn't require it: separate panels for each variety work too. Our tool doesn't lay out aggregate panels. It makes one correct label per product, and those are exactly the numbers each column of an aggregate display needs.

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Aggregate nutrition label diagram: two single-product Nutrition Facts panels for oat bars and arrows showing how their values become columns in a variety pack display

What is free

Start with one label per variety, free

Preview each flavor's panel before you pay. No account.

One recipe per varietyEnter each flavor as its own recipe and see its own Nutrition Facts preview.

A serving size for eachEach food gets the reference amount for its own category, even when the box mixes categories.

Ingredients and allergens per varietyEach flavor's ingredient list and Contains line, ready for the outer box.

Formats that fit a box sideTabular for a box side without the height for a tall panel, linear for small packages that qualify.

The rule

What an aggregate nutrition facts label is

Two short FDA paragraphs set it up, and one more says what a variety pack must disclose.

Variety packsWho may use itOuter packages holding two or more separately packaged foods meant to be eaten individually, like variety packs of cereal or snacks. Also packages used for several kinds of the same food, like round ice cream containers.21 CFR 101.9(d)(13)(i)

OptionalAllowed, not requiredThe rule says these packages may use an aggregate display. A separate Nutrition Facts panel for each variety is the other way to do it.21 CFR 101.9(d)(13)(i)

Every varietyNumbers for each foodA variety pack gives nutrition information for each variety, per serving size based on that food's own reference amount.21 CFR 101.9(b)(4)

A column eachHow it is laid outThe standard format as far as possible, with each food named to the right of the "Nutrition Facts" heading and its amounts and % Daily Values in columns under its name.21 CFR 101.9(d)(13)(ii)

Build it

How to build an aggregate display from per-product labels

We make the per-product labels. You or your designer arrange them into columns.

1Make a label for each varietyEnter each flavor as its own recipe. Three flavors fit the 3-label bundle for $69; up to ten fit the 10-label bundle for $199. Credits never expire.
2Use each food's own reference amountA box with oat bars and nut packs gets a 40 g serving for the bars and a 30 g serving for the nuts. The tool shows the reference amount for common product types.
3Collect the valuesFrom each label and its calculation report: serving size, calories, every rounded amount and % Daily Value.
4Lay out the columnsNutrient names once on the left, then a column per food with its amount and % Daily Value, each food named next to the "Nutrition Facts" heading.
5Check each column against its labelEvery number in a column should match that product's own panel exactly. Foods are never added up or averaged together.
Or skip the aggregatePrint each variety's own panel on the outer box. Our PDF and SVG files work for that as they are.

Example

Two oat bars in one variety box

Two no-bake bars, each wrapped and sold together. The reference amount for grain-based bars is 40 g, so each 40 g bar is one serving. Values from our tool for each bar, as they would fill two columns. Peanut butter chocolate chip | Almond cranberry:

180 | 180CaloriesSame calories, different makeup underneath.21 CFR 101.12(b), Table 2

10g | 9gTotal fat13% and 12% of the Daily Value.

2.5g | 0.5gSaturated fat13% and 3% of the Daily Value.

21g | 22gTotal carbohydrate8% of the Daily Value in both.

11g | 11gAdded sugars22% in both, mostly from the honey.

5g | 4gProteinPeanut butter edges out almond butter.

Peanuts, Soy | AlmondsContainsEach variety keeps its own allergen statement. The soy comes from the lecithin in the chocolate chips.

Look-alikes

Packs that sound aggregate but follow other rules

One food, two columnsPer serving and per package for a single food is a dual column label, not an aggregate.21 CFR 101.9(b)(12)(i)

Inner units not for saleWhen the outer package carries all the nutrition information and the units inside aren't sold separately, the units can skip it if they say "This Unit Not Labeled For Retail Sale", or carry no labeling at all.21 CFR 101.9(j)(15)

Fully labeled units insideWhen every unit in the pack is labeled for sale on its own, the serving size on the outer pack is 1 unit.21 CFR 101.9(b)(2)(i)(H)

Supplement packetsSeparately packaged supplements that differ, like morning and evening packets, may use separate Supplement Facts panels or one aggregate panel.21 CFR 101.36(e)(8)

When you pay

Pay only when you print

$29Single labelMost chosenDownload PDF, SVG or PNG, print on sheets, and get the calculation report. Kept for 2 years.

$69Bundles3 labels. Or 10 for $199. Credits never expire.

$399/yrUnlimitedThat is $33.25 a month. Every label for your own company, price locked while you stay.

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