fat-free-individual-food
For fat-free-individual-food, claim term is fat free; nutrient is total fat; food format is individual food (not a meal or main dish product); threshold is less than 0.5 gram (g) of fat per reference amount customarily consumed and per labeled serving; cfr section is 21 CFR 101.62(b)(1)(i), recorded from its source on 2026-08-17.
- Claim ID
- fat-free-individual-food our reading
- Claim term
- fat free verified
- Nutrient
- total fat our reading
- Food format
- individual food (not a meal or main dish product) our reading
- Threshold
- less than 0.5 gram (g) of fat per reference amount customarily consumed and per labeled serving verified
- CFR section
- 21 CFR 101.62(b)(1)(i) our reading
- Special conditions
- The food contains no added ingredient that is a fat or is generally understood by consumers to contain fat verified
Values marked our reading are our classification of what the source says — the source does not print them in those words. The quote below is the evidence for each one; judge it yourself.
What the source says
The terms “fat free,” “free of fat,” “no fat,” “zero fat,” “without fat,” “negligible source of fat,” or “dietarily insignificant source of fat” or, in the case of milk products, “skim” may be used on the label or in labeling of foods, provided that: ( i ) The food contains less than 0.5 gram (g) of fat per reference amount customarily consumed and per labeled serving or, in the case of a meal product or main dish product, less than 0.5 g of fat per labeled serving; and ( ii ) The food contains no added ingredient that is a fat or is generally understood by consumers to contain fat unless the listing of the ingredient in the ingredient statement is followed by an asterisk that refers to the statement below the list of ingredients, which states “adds a trivial amount of fat,” “adds a negligible amount of fat,” or “adds a dietarily insignificant amount of fat;” and ( iii ) As required in <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/section-101.13#p-101.13(e)(2)> § 101.13(e)(2) , if the food meets these conditions without the benefit of special processing, alteration, formulation, or reformulation to lower fat content, it is labeled to disclose that fat is not usually present in the food (e.g., “broccoli, a fat free food”).
— ecfr.gov, retrieved 2026-08-17
Source
- ecfr.govhttps://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-101/subpart-D/section-101.62