PetTreatLabels — AAFCO Label Generator (Estimator)

1. Your product

Dog treats / snacks only in v1. No cat food, no raw / jerky / freeze-dried, no “complete and balanced” food.

Product name Manufacturer name & address (city, state, ZIP) Net weight Species

2. Your recipe

Search USDA foods Weight (g)

Add an ingredient manually (not in USDA data)

Name Weight (g) Protein / 100 g Fat / 100 g Dietary fiber / 100 g Total carb / 100 g

3. Finished batch — required

Finished batch weight, weighed after baking (g) — required Treats per batch Moisture % of finished product — optional, leave blank to calculate Crude fiber override, % as fed (lab value — optional)

Why we ask: Guaranteed Analysis is as-fed % of the finished batch — water lost in baking concentrates everything else. If you skip the finished weight, the numbers are wrong, so the tool refuses to generate a label. Moisture: leave blank and the tool calculates it from the water balance — USDA water values for your ingredients minus the water lost in baking (raw weight − finished weight). Enter your own value only if you measured it (oven-dry or lab); your entry overrides the calculation and both numbers are shown. Crude fiber: USDA reports dietary fiber, not crude fiber, and there is no verified conversion — so the fiber line is labelled “estimated”. Common ingredients now use sourced crude-fiber values (Feedipedia / published proximate analyses); anything else uses a provisional type factor, shown per ingredient under the label. Enter a lab crude-fiber value above to replace the estimate.

4. Your draft label

Free preview — the draft is watermarked “DRAFT — ESTIMATE”. The print-ready PDF unlock is a stub in this local build (no payment is wired).

Load the sample recipe or build your own, then press “Generate draft label”.

5. State registration checklist

Dog treats are commercial feed in most states — cottage-food law usually does not cover them. Minnesota is the national exception. Check your state before you sell.

About this tool — please read

Estimator, not a lab.
AAFCO does not approve, certify, test or endorse pet food. There is no such thing as an “AAFCO approved” treat, and this tool will never print those words.
Old-format panel only. This is the pre-PFLM Guaranteed Analysis panel, acceptable during AAFCO’s enforcement-discretion period (to ~2030). The new Pet Nutrition Facts box is not built yet — do not mix formats.
Lab step: a full proximate panel (Midwest Labs F2) was $40 per product per batch in research (2026-11-15); sellers typically report $75–150 per product. A lab test is the only way to confirm your guarantees before registration.
Data: nutrient values from USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy (public domain, CC0). AAFCO ingredient names are suggestions only — see the free AAFCO Chapter 6 PDF: 2025 OP Chapter 6. AAFCO’s Official Publication is copyrighted and is not reproduced here.