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Labeling requirements
Idaho cottage food labels, done right.
Everything a homemade food label needs in Idaho: the required statement word for word, what to list and the font rules. Then make yours free, right here.
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What Must Appear on Your Label
Every product sold under Idaho's cottage food law must include all of the following on its label:
- 1 Producer's name
- 2 Producer's contact information
- 3 Ingredients (if 2 or more)
- 4 Required statement u2014 on a label or a card
Required Cottage Food Statement
Idaho requires the following statement to appear verbatim on every label. Copy this exactly — no paraphrasing.
Required Statement
"This product is not subject to government food safety inspection or licensing requirements. It may contain allergens."
Additional Requirements
Minimum Font Size
Idaho requires a minimum font size of 6 points on cottage food labels. Make sure your type is legible — your customers are reading it in a farmers market, not a laboratory.
Nutrition Facts Panel
You do not need a Nutrition Facts panel.
Cottage food producers are explicitly exempt from FDA mandatory nutrition labeling. You may add one voluntarily, but Idaho does not require it. Save that time for baking.
Cottage food producers are explicitly exempt from FDA mandatory nutrition labeling. You may add one voluntarily, but Idaho does not require it. Save that time for baking.
Official Labeling Requirements
Always verify labeling rules directly with your state agency — requirements can change.
View Official Idaho Labeling Requirements →A Few Words from Your Label-Loving Friends
Pro tip: Your label is often the first impression a customer has of your brand. Check every box above — then make it beautiful. A well-designed label can turn a one-time buyer into a loyal customer who hunts for your booth at every farmers market.
Information last updated: October 11, 2026. Cottage food labeling rules change — always confirm with your state agency.
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The easiest way to make your labels
Paste It, Snap It or Link It. Your Label Writes Itself.
Bring the recipe you already have: pasted in, photographed, or straight from a website. Every ingredient is matched and weighed for you. Store-bought mix in there? Pick it from our list and its whole ingredient list comes with it. Then it is a label, in weight order, allergens declared, checked against your state's rules, in a design that looks like you. Here is one real bakery's cake mix cookies, start to finish.
Step 1 · Your recipe
Paste it, snap it or link it.
Paste the list from wherever it lives, take a photo of the recipe card, or drop in a link from your favourite food site. Every line is read, matched to your ingredients and weighed. Nothing to retype.
- Paste, photo or link
- Every line matched
Step 2 · Store-bought
Using a mix? Pick it from the list.
Cake and brownie mixes, frostings, chips and sprinkles. Search by product or brand and pick the one in your cupboard.
- Search by product or brand
- Mixes, frostings, chips and more
Step 3 · The fine print
Its whole ingredient list, filled in for you.
Pick it and the package's ingredient list arrives with it, bracketed after its name the way a label has to show a store-bought ingredient, with its allergens ticked. Glance at the box in your hand, tick, done.
- No copying the box
- Allergens picked up
Step 4 · Label it
One click, and it is a label.
Make a label opens the Label Maker with everything in place: ingredients in weight order, the mix with its own list in brackets, and the allergens from every box declared. Wheat, milk, soy, eggs.
- Weight order, automatic
- Allergens from every box
Step 5 · Required info
Your state's rules, checked as you go.
Your state's cottage food statement is filled in word for word. Add the net weight and the date you made it, and the checklist goes green when every line the law asks for is on the label.
- Your state's exact wording
- Checked before you print
Step 6 · Your style
Then make it beautiful.
Eight house styles, each in your own colours, matching your booth sign and your posts. The longest ingredient list still fits inside the cut line, and the label is saved for the next batch.
- 8 house styles
- Saved for the next batch
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The free Label Maker prints a compliant label. A Butter & Sage shop remembers it, fills it in and makes it look like you.
Store-bought ingredients, filled in for you
Using a cake mix or chocolate chips? Pick it from the library and its full ingredient list goes in for you.
Import from a recipe link
Paste a link from a recipe site and every line is read and matched.
Designs that look like you
Classic designs on Maker; on Bloom, house styles that match your booth signs and shop.
Round labels and every size
Rounds for jars, rectangles for bags and boxes, laid out ready to print.
Allergens marked for you
Wheat, milk, eggs, nuts and the rest flagged from the ingredients you choose.
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