Nutrition information panels, worked out from the recipe

It lays out the seven values Standard 1.2.8 requires in the format set by section S12—2, rounds to three significant figures where section 1.2.8—7(3) requires it, and shows per cent daily intake against the reference values in section 1.2.8—8(3).

What it cannot do is check your recipe. The figures are only as good as the weights you enter and the ingredients you match them to. Foodlex produces the formatted basis; it does not replace a specialist review, and the responsibility for what is printed on the pack stays with the business that sells the food.

The Nutrition Panel Calculator dataset published by Food Standards Australia New Zealand — the data the regulator’s own tool runs on. Foodlex also carries the German Bundeslebensmittelschlüssel, the American USDA FoodData Central and the French CIQUAL table, which matters if you import ingredients or export finished product. Ingredients of your own, with values of your own, can be added.

With the mandatory names from Schedule 9, in two places: beside the ingredient in the ingredient list, and again in the Contains statement under Standard 1.2.3.

The name is the one Schedule 9 prescribes, not the one you typed. Butter prints as Butter (milk). Spelt flour prints as Spelt flour (wheat), because wheat is the required name whatever the species is called. Barley appears as barley gluten in the summary statement where the ingredient list says barley.

Not yet. The Country of Origin Food Labelling Information Standard 2016 allows two forms: the standard mark — kangaroo plus bar chart — and a country of origin statement in text. Foodlex prints the statement, with the Australian proportion worked out by ingoing weight as section 11(1) defines it. The mark itself is on the list of things to build, not ruled out.

The trade mark is not the obstacle. The ACCC states that Australian made or Australian grown food products “are permitted to use the kangaroo logo (without cost) as long as they follow the Food Labelling Standard”, and the artwork is published for download by the Australian Government.

One part of it will stay yours even once it is built: the mark may only carry the kangaroo if the food really is grown or made in Australia, and section 8 turns on “virtually all” and “last substantially transformed” — a judgement, not a calculation, for which the government runs its own tool. Foodlex would ask you to release the mark rather than set it on its own. Note also that this standard is consumer law, made under section 134 of the Australian Consumer Law, so the ACCC administers it rather than FSANZ.

In five cases, all of them where the recipe does not carry a fact the label needs. Rather than guess, Foodlex stops and says what is missing:

• the label language is set to something other than English — section 1.2.1—24(1) requires that any words “must be in English”;
• no country of origin has been entered at all;
• a beverage has no density, so the panel cannot be given per 100 mL as section 1.2.8—6(1)(b)(ii) requires;
• the food is marked as reconstituted or drained, and the figures would describe something other than what is eaten (sections 1.2.8—11 and —12);
• a cereal ingredient does not say which species it is — Schedule 9 asks for the species, not the group.

By Standard 1.2.10—8. The figure is rounded to the nearest whole number at 5 % or more and to the nearest half below that, and it is set without a space before the per cent sign, immediately after the ingredient name as section 1.2.10—8(2) requires: Honey 7%, not Honey 7.2 %.

One case is deliberately left unrounded. An ingredient that is present but would round to zero keeps its exact figure — 0.2%, not 0% — because section 1.2.10—8(3) says the percentage “may” be rounded, not that it must be.

The proportion is worked out on the finished food rather than on the ingoing weights, which section 1.2.10—5 allows where moisture is lost in processing. What stays your judgement is which ingredients carry a figure: section 1.1.2—4 makes an ingredient characterising if it is named in the name of the food, usually associated with it, or emphasised on the label. Foodlex proposes every ingredient at 5 % or more and lets you switch any other one on, or off, beside the ingredient in the recipe.

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The euro figure is the price. The dollar figure is an example, worked out on 21 October 2026 at the European Central Bank reference rate of that day (1 € = 1.5971 A$) and rounded up to the whole dollar.

The date is printed on purpose. If the dollar figure no longer matches what you are quoted, that is the exchange rate having moved since then — the euro price has not changed. What you actually pay in Australian dollars depends on the rate on the day and on your card issuer, which may add a conversion fee.

All euro prices are final prices: Foodlex invoices under the German small-business rule (§ 19 UStG), so no VAT is shown. The full breakdown is on the pricing page.