FoodCore creates Natasha's Law compliant PPDS labels automatically — full ingredients list, allergens highlighted in bold, ready to print. No manual formatting, no spreadsheets, no guesswork.
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For most small food businesses, food labelling starts as a Word document or a Canva template. You type out the ingredients, bold the allergens manually, and print. It works — until you change a recipe. Then you have to find the old file, update it, recheck every allergen, reformat, reprint. Do that across 20 products and it becomes a part-time job.
Since Natasha's Law came into force in October 2021, every business selling pre-packed for direct sale (PPDS) food in the UK must label every product with a full ingredients list and all 14 major allergens highlighted in bold. That includes bakeries, caterers, market stall sellers, meal prep businesses, home bakers who sell online — anyone who prepares and sells food directly to customers. The right food labelling software UK businesses need handles this automatically.
The legal risk of getting it wrong is serious. But the operational problem is just as real: keeping labels accurate when recipes change, ingredients get swapped, or suppliers change formulations. FoodCore solves this by generating labels directly from your recipe data. Change an ingredient once, and every label that uses it updates automatically. No manual reformatting. No risk of selling a product with a label that no longer matches what's in it. Whether you need a food label generator UK businesses can trust, or a full allergen label software UK solution, FoodCore covers both.
FoodCore is built specifically for small UK food businesses — not enterprise catering software with a price tag to match. As Natasha's Law labelling software and a food label maker UK in one, FoodCore gives you food labelling, recipe costing, allergen management, shopping lists, and order tracking at £55/month. No per-feature pricing, no add-ons, no hidden fees. If you need dedicated PPDS labelling software, FoodCore is built for exactly that.
Labels that meet UK food law — generated automatically from your recipes.
FoodCore generates a full ingredients list in descending order by weight, with all 14 major allergens automatically highlighted in bold. The output meets UK food information regulations for PPDS products — no manual formatting required.
Allergens are identified at the ingredient level when you build your recipe library. FoodCore carries them through to every recipe and every label automatically. If an ingredient contains gluten, every recipe using it will flag gluten — without you having to check each one manually.
Change a supplier, swap an ingredient, or adjust a recipe and the label updates automatically. You're never at risk of printing a label that doesn't match what's actually in the product — a critical compliance issue under Natasha's Law.
Labels are formatted for standard label paper and can be printed directly from FoodCore. No need to export to Word or Canva and reformat. Print, peel, attach — done.
If you use compound ingredients — pre-made sauces, spice blends, bought-in pastry — FoodCore tracks their sub-ingredients and allergens too. Your labels reflect what's actually in the product, not just the top-level ingredients you added.
See a clear allergen summary for every recipe showing which of the 14 allergens are present and which specific ingredients they come from. Useful for staff training, customer queries, and your own compliance records.
FoodCore is built for small UK food businesses — not enterprise kitchens with IT teams.
Whether you run a high-street bakery or sell from home via Instagram, if you sell PPDS products you need compliant labels. FoodCore handles the labelling for your full product range automatically.
Printing labels before market day is straightforward with FoodCore — build your recipes once, print labels in bulk before you pack up. No last-minute scramble with a Word template.
Caterers and meal prep businesses often have large, changing menus. FoodCore keeps labels accurate across your whole range as recipes evolve.
If you make sandwiches, cakes, or prepared foods on-site and sell them pre-packed, Natasha's Law applies. FoodCore makes compliance manageable without a dedicated food safety team.
Small UK food businesses using FoodCore's food labelling software.
"We used to spend an hour updating our labels whenever we changed a recipe. FoodCore does it in seconds. We haven't had a labelling error since."
"As a market stall seller, I was terrified of getting Natasha's Law wrong. FoodCore gave me confidence that my labels were always correct."
"We have 35 products on our menu. Keeping allergen information accurate manually was impossible. FoodCore automated the whole thing."
Why small food businesses switch from manual methods to FoodCore.
Natasha's Law applies to any business selling pre-packed for direct sale (PPDS) food — food that is packed on the same premises where it is sold. This includes bakeries, market stalls, cafés, delis, meal prep businesses, and home bakers who sell directly to customers. If you pack food before the customer orders it, Natasha's Law almost certainly applies.
UK food law requires you to declare 14 major allergens: celery, cereals containing gluten (wheat, rye, barley, oats), crustaceans, eggs, fish, lupin, milk, molluscs, mustard, peanuts, sesame, soybeans, sulphur dioxide/sulphites, and tree nuts. FoodCore tracks all 14 automatically.
Yes — your label must accurately reflect what is in the product at the time of sale. If you change an ingredient, the label must be updated before you sell the product. FoodCore makes this automatic: change the recipe, the label updates.
Yes. FoodCore generates print-ready labels formatted for standard label paper. You print from your browser — no additional software required.
No — food labelling is one part of FoodCore. The same subscription also gives you recipe costing, allergen matrix, shopping lists, order management, and a margin dashboard. Everything a small food business needs to run its kitchen, at one flat price.
UK food information regulations require food labels to include: the name of the food, a full ingredients list in descending order by weight, allergens emphasised in bold within the ingredients list, net quantity, best before or use-by date, storage instructions, and the name and address of the food business. For PPDS food specifically, Natasha's Law requires the full ingredients list with all 14 major allergens highlighted. FoodCore's food label generator for UK businesses handles the ingredients list and allergen emphasis automatically.
Natasha's Law specifically added the requirement for PPDS food to carry a full ingredient list with allergens emphasised. Before Natasha's Law came into force in October 2021, PPDS food only needed to display the name of the food. The pre-existing allergen law already required allergen information to be available for loose and non-prepacked food, but PPDS food was in a gap — it had minimal labelling requirements. Natasha's Law closed that gap by requiring full ingredient listings. Our Natasha's Law labelling software and PPDS label software generate fully compliant labels from your recipes.
With FoodCore, generating a compliant UK food label takes three steps: build your recipe in FoodCore by adding your ingredients with quantities, the system auto-detects all 14 major allergens and generates a compliant label with ingredients in descending weight order and allergens in bold, then you print directly from your browser onto standard label paper. No formatting, no manual allergen checking, no Word templates. FoodCore acts as a food label maker for UK businesses — from first recipe entry to a print-ready label in minutes. Our food label maker and allergen matrix software are included in every plan.
FoodCore starts at £19/month for the Essentials plan, which includes food labelling plus recipe costing, allergen matrix, shopping lists, and order tracking. The Core plan is £55/month and includes all features. Both plans come with a 7-day free trial, no card required. Compared to the time spent maintaining manual labels — and the legal risk of getting it wrong — food labelling software UK businesses typically recover the cost quickly. See our recipe management software for the full feature set.
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