Example label
Banana bread PPDS label example
Banana bread sliced and bagged before sale is wheat and egg, and milk if you use butter, yoghurt or buttermilk. Banana and sugar are not allergens. Walnuts are a tree nut if you add them.
Reviewed against official guidance.SourcesNot legal advice.
The label
Ingredients (teaching narrative)
Wheat flour, banana, eggs, butter (milk), sugar, baking powder.
- Wheat
- Eggs
- Milk — butter or buttermilk
What this teaches
Baking powder is not an allergen. Some raising agents are in a wheat flour base — check if you are making a gluten-free version.
Is this PPDS?
Loaves sliced and wrapped, or slices in bags, are PPDS when packed before the customer chooses them.
Questions
Is banana an allergen?
Banana is not one of the 14. You still list it.
What if I use oil instead of butter?
Then milk drops off, unless another ingredient contains it. Change the label with the fat.
Official sources
Everything on this page traces back to these. Where they and we disagree, they are right — tell us and we'll fix it.
- Labelling guidance for prepacked for direct sale (PPDS) food productsFood Standards Agency / GOV.UK
- Introduction to allergen labelling for PPDS foodFood Standards Agency / GOV.UK