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Natasha’s Law label template
Most templates hand you an empty box and leave you to work out the allergens. Type your ingredients below and this one produces the finished label — then download it, or take the blank worksheet for the stockroom.
Your product name
Ingredients: Your ingredients will appear here, with allergens in bold capitals.
Your label appears here
Paste an ingredients list on the left. We'll structure it, suggest the allergens and show you a label you can print.
Template
The shape of a Natasha’s Law label
Three required parts, in an order that reads well on a small piece of paper. Copy the structure, or copy one of the worked examples below.
Reviewed against official guidance.SourcesNot legal advice.
The structure
[ NAME OF THE FOOD ]
Ingredients: [ every ingredient, heaviest first, compound ingredients broken out in brackets, allergens in BOLD CAPITALS everywhere they appear ]
[ optional: storage or date ]
[ optional: your business name ]
Only the first two lines are required for PPDS food. The rest is useful, not compulsory — see PPDS vs prepacked for why a supermarket sandwich carries more.
The worksheet is a blank CSV for collecting product names, ingredients and allergens away from a screen — useful when you are reading the backs of tubs with a clipboard.
Five worked examples
Each of these is produced by the same engine that runs the generator above, and each teaches one thing that catches people out.
Chocolate Brownie
Butter is dairy but does not say so — the allergen has to be added to the name. The chocolate is a compound ingredient, so its own ingredients are broken out in brackets.
Chocolate Brownie
Ingredients: Caster sugar, Butter (MILK), Free range EGGS, Dark chocolate (cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, emulsifier: SOYA lecithin), WHEAT flour, Cocoa powder, Sea salt.
Salted Caramel Brownie
The same allergen appears in two different ingredients. It must be emphasised every time it appears, not just the first.
Salted Caramel Brownie
Ingredients: Caster sugar, Butter (MILK), Free range EGGS, Dark chocolate (cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, emulsifier: SOYA lecithin), WHEAT flour, Salted caramel (sugar, cream (MILK), butter (MILK), sea salt), Cocoa powder.
Chicken & Pesto Sandwich
A sandwich is almost entirely compound ingredients. The bread, the pesto and the mayonnaise each need their own ingredients listing inside brackets.
Chicken & Pesto Sandwich
Ingredients: Bread (WHEAT flour, water, yeast, salt), Cooked chicken breast, Pesto (basil, sunflower oil, CASHEW nuts, hard cheese (MILK), garlic, salt), Mayonnaise (rapeseed oil, EGG yolk, vinegar, MUSTARD), Rocket.
Victoria Sponge
A simple recipe, but the jam still has to be broken out — including its gelling agent and acidity regulator.
Victoria Sponge
Ingredients: WHEAT flour, Caster sugar, Free range EGGS, Butter (MILK), Raspberry jam (sugar, raspberries, gelling agent: pectin, acidity regulator: citric acid), Baking powder.
Chocolate Chip Cookie
Milk chocolate chips carry two allergens of their own. A small label still has to carry the full list.
Chocolate Chip Cookie
Ingredients: WHEAT flour, Butter (MILK), MILK chocolate chips (sugar, cocoa butter, whole MILK powder, cocoa mass, emulsifier: SOYA lecithin), Caster sugar, Soft brown sugar, Free range EGG, Bicarbonate of soda, Sea salt.
Laying it out
Legibility beats design
A PPDS label is a functional document read by someone deciding whether food is safe for them. Wide margins, a plain typeface, and ingredients that are not fighting a background pattern. Save the brand expression for the rest of the packaging.
- Name at the top, clearly bigger than the ingredients list.
- Ingredients as running text, not a bulleted column — it fits far better on a small label.
- Bold capitals for allergens. Not colour, which disappears on a thermal printer.
- Minimum 1.2 mm x-height, or 0.9 mm on very small packaging — the rules in detail.
- Don’t print over a photograph. Ever.
Questions
Is there an official Natasha’s Law template?
What size should the label be?
Can I add my logo and a date?
Do I have to handwrite them?
Official sources
Everything on this page traces back to these. Where they and we disagree, they are right — tell us and we'll fix it.
- Labelling guidance for prepacked for direct sale (PPDS) food productsFood Standards Agency / GOV.UK
- Introduction to allergen labelling for PPDS foodFood Standards Agency / GOV.UK
- Food labelling: giving food information to consumersGOV.UK
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