Frozen Fruit Labels
Frozen fruit is a harder label job than it looks. The fruit goes into a floppy poly bag, that bag frosts up in the freezer and sweats the second it comes out, and at retail it sits in a door somebody opens a hundred times a day. Most labels are not built for that. Ours are.
Why frozen fruit labels peel off in the freezer
It is almost never the cold on its own. It is the water. Every time the door opens, the surface of the bag warms just enough to sweat; every time it shuts, that moisture freezes again. Paper facestock drinks all of it, swells, cockles, and takes the print with it. A few weeks of that and you get a lifted corner, then a lifted edge, then a label lying in the bottom of the cabinet.
So we print on synthetic stock instead: BOPP, polyester or vinyl, none of which absorb anything. The adhesive does the rest of the work. Ours is FDA approved and food-grade, it applies down to −20 °F so it will still key to a bag that is already frozen, and it holds to −60 °F once it is on. Label before freezing if that suits your line better. You just no longer have to.
Frozen fruit labels for poly bags and clamshells
Polyethylene is a low-energy surface, which is the technical way of saying most adhesives never properly wet out on it. Put that together with a bag that bends every time someone picks it up and you get the classic frozen produce failure, corners first. Conformable stock and a high-tack freezer adhesive is what stops it. Rigid tubs and PET clamshells are an easier surface and a flat panel, so that is where a clear label earns its money: no-label look, and the berries sell themselves through the window.
Custom printed or blank DIY frozen fruit labels
Either, depending on how often your copy changes. If the artwork is settled, we print it in full colour on our own press in Henderson and ship it ready to apply, matched to a proof so a raspberry red does not drift orange between runs. If you are coding lot numbers and pack dates every week, blank freezer-rated sheet labels you run through your own printer make more sense. No minimums either way, so fifty is a perfectly normal order. Or take free samples first and stick one in your own freezer before you commit to anything.
Send us the copy you want on the label and we will set it legibly at the size the bag allows. What your pack is legally required to carry is a question for your regulatory adviser rather than for us.
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Popular label formats
Rolls, sheets and die-cut shapes — paper, coated paper, waterproof poly and more.
Need custom frozen fruit labels?
Tell us your product, size and quantity — we'll recommend the right material and send free samples.