The problem we set out to solve
A small producer who wants a Nutrition Facts panel has historically had three options: pay a lab a few hundred dollars per product, pay a consultant more than that, or build a spreadsheet and hope. The spreadsheet is where most people land, and it is where the mistakes live. Not usually in the arithmetic, but in the rules sitting underneath it: which reference amount sets your serving size, which increment each nutrient rounds to, which Daily Values apply in which country, and the fact that a US panel is not a Canadian table with the spelling changed.
Those rules are public and they are learnable. They are also fiddly enough that software should be doing them.
What Nutrifax does
- Builds the recipe. Paste recipe text, photograph a handwritten card, or search ingredients directly. Every ingredient is matched to a specific source food, not a fuzzy category.
- Calculates per serving. Calories, macros, sodium, fibre, cholesterol, vitamins, and minerals, from ingredient gram weights, with servings or a weight or volume yield.
- Renders the label. An FDA Nutrition Facts panel in the 2016 format, rounded per 21 CFR 101.9, or a CFIA Nutrition Facts table in English, French, or bilingual, rounded per B.01.402. Each is generated from its own regulator's rules rather than converted from the other.
- Exports something you can print. A PDF or PNG at print resolution and correct physical dimensions, or a tiled Avery 5163 sticker sheet.
- Shows its work. An audit report traces every number back through the ingredient that produced it, with the source dataset and record identifier.
- Costs the recipe. Log what you paid for ingredients and see total cost, cost per serving, and cost per 100 g.
Who it is for
Three groups, with genuinely different needs.
Cottage food and small producers selling at a farmers' market or into a local shop, who need a label that will survive a retailer's paperwork check and an inspector's question. This is the group the label formats and the audit report exist for.
Home cooks and recipe writers who want honest per-serving numbers to publish alongside a recipe, rather than whatever a plugin estimated.
People cooking for a health reason who need to see fibre, saturated fat, sodium, or carbohydrate per serving and have it be right. The public cookbook and its collections are built for them.
What we are careful about
Nutrifax generates labels in the FDA and CFIA formats and applies each regulator's rounding rules. It does not certify your product and it cannot tell you whether your label is legal, because that depends on your recipe, your serving size, your ingredient and allergen statements, and your finished package. We say this on the terms page and in our guides too, because a tool in this category that implies otherwise is doing its users a disservice.
We would rather be the tool that tells you what it does not know. That is also why the audit report exists, why every ingredient records its source, and why the data sources page lists what those datasets cannot tell you alongside what they can.
How it is priced
You can build a recipe and generate a standard FDA or Canada label without paying anything, and print, PDF, and PNG export are included. There is no trial clock.
Beyond that, individual actions cost Ω, the in-app credit: one label, one sheet, one AI import, one audit report. Memberships remove the recipe limit, unlock Avery sheet tiling and audit reports, and include a monthly Ω grant. Label Pro drops the Ω cost on label generation entirely. Details are on the store page.
Labels you generate are yours to use on packaging you sell. No royalty, no per-unit fee, no watermark.
Where the numbers come from
Health Canada's Canadian Nutrient File and the USDA's FoodData Central, loaded into our own database and queried locally. No external nutrition API at request time, and no crowd-sourced or brand-submitted values mixed into search results. The full picture, including the limits, is on the data sources page.
Who makes it
Nutrifax is built and operated by Novadiem, an independent software studio. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Health Canada, the USDA, the CFIA, or the FDA.
Getting in touch
Support tickets go through the support page and reach a person. If you have found something wrong with a label format, a rounding result, or an ingredient match, that is the fastest way to get it fixed, and we would rather hear about it than not.