Fire Cider Label
Fire cider label rules follow how you sell the tonic. As a food, it is a seasoned vinegar: a clear name, fluid ounces and milliliters, an ingredient list with the heaviest ingredient first, your name and address and Nutrition Facts per 1 tablespoon, the reference amount FDA gives vinegar. Sell it as a dietary supplement and the name says so, with Supplement Facts in place of Nutrition Facts. Enter your recipe and get either panel.
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What has to be on your fire cider label
The front carries the name and fluid ounces; the back carries the rest. Every number on the list matches a spot on the bottle beside it.
- 1A name that says what it is21 CFR 101.3"Fire cider" alone tells a new buyer little. Add a plain description, like "spicy apple cider vinegar tonic". Sold as a supplement, the name includes "dietary supplement" or a term like "Herbal supplement".
- 2Net contents in fluid ounces21 CFR 101.7Volume, not weight: fluid ounces and milliliters near the bottom of the front label, like 16 FL OZ (473 mL).
- 3Nutrition or Supplement Facts21 CFR 101.9, 101.36Nutrition Facts per 1 tbsp (15 mL) for the food version. Supplement Facts per the dose you recommend for the supplement version.
- 4Ingredient list21 CFR 101.4Heaviest first. Our sample lists the vinegar, the honey and every vegetable and spice that steeped in it. Turmeric also colors, so it is named, or declared as spice and coloring.
- 5Allergen statementFALCPAThe classic roots, peppers and citrus are not major allergens. A Contains line is only needed when you add one of the 9, like sesame seeds or a nut.
- 6Name and address21 CFR 101.5Your business name with city, state and ZIP code, as maker, packer or distributor.
Things that are different for fire cider
Fire cider bottles and the label that fits
Most fire cider goes out in glass bottles with a round body. Measure the flat label band, then switch formats in the tool.
| Bottle | Typical label area | Style that usually fits |
|---|---|---|
| 2 fl oz shot bottle | 2 × 1.25 in | Small package (linear) |
| 8 fl oz bottle | 3 × 2.5 in | Standard (vertical) |
| 16 fl oz bottle | 3.5 × 3 in | Standard (vertical)Most common |
| 32 fl oz jar | 4 × 3.5 in | Standard (vertical) |
Start from a fire cider recipe that's already filled in
Steep everything except the honey in the vinegar, strain, then stir in the honey and weigh the finished tonic. Horseradish is a classic, but it is not in our ingredient library: type it in as a custom ingredient from the values on the horseradish you buy. Every other ingredient below matches USDA data.
| Ingredient | Amount | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Apple cider vinegar✓ USDA match | 4 | cups |
| Onion✓ USDA match | 1 | cup |
| Ginger root✓ USDA match | 1/2 | cup |
| Garlic✓ USDA match | 1/4 | cup |
| Hot chili peppers✓ USDA match | 2 | each |
| Lemon juice✓ USDA match | 1/4 | cup |
| Lemon zest✓ USDA match | 1 | tbsp |
| Turmeric✓ USDA match | 1 | tbsp |
| Black pepper✓ USDA match | 1 | tsp |
| Honey✓ USDA match | 1/2 | cup |
Fire cider label questions
It depends on how you present it. Named and sold as a spicy vinegar for cooking, drinks or salads, it is a food with Nutrition Facts. Called a dietary supplement on the label, dosed by the spoonful each day and never pitched as a cooking vinegar, it carries Supplement Facts and "dietary supplement" in the name.
No. A claim to prevent or treat a disease turns the tonic into a drug in the eyes of the law, whether you sell it as a food or a supplement. Our tool builds the panel and the ingredient list; it does not review claims. Start a label →
As a food, 1 tbsp (15 mL), the reference amount FDA lists for vinegar. As a supplement, the dose your directions give for one sitting, whether that is a spoonful or a 1 fl oz shot.
Our sample does, heaviest first, so buyers see what went into the tonic. For the numbers, weigh the strained, sweetened tonic and enter it as the weight after cooking. What stays behind in the strained vegetables still counts, so carbs come out on the high side; a lab test of the finished tonic gives exact values.
Yes. Grab a blank panel for free, in either the food or the supplement version, or run the free preview on the fire cider recipe above and print once the numbers look right.
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