Name of food and ingredients List
Name of food
This must be the name of the food, a customary name or an appropriate description of the food (in the absence of a name or customary name).
Ingredients list
Certain principles need to be followed:
- the list requires to be named as “Ingredients”
- it must detail the ingredients used from the largest quantity to the smallest quantity
- if a food is named in the name of the food, then the % content must be displayed, this is known as Quantitative Ingredient Declaration (QUID) and can be calculated at the mixing bowl stage
- ingredients that make up less than 2% of the final product do not require to be labelled
- compound ingredients require to have their own ingredient lists detailed in brackets after them in the ingredients list