Confita
What Utah actually decides
The Home Consumption and Homemade Food Act is about as light as a food rule gets. No registration, no inspection, no food handler permit, no sales cap, and the department is actually barred from adding certification requirements by rule. Utah publishes no allowed list for this tier because the definition does the work: any food product prepared in a private home kitchen that can be used as food or non-alcoholic drink, except what the statute takes out.
What it is not is a state with nothing to do. A municipal business licence under section 10-1-203 is mandatory, and UDAF lists it for both tiers. It is easy to miss because it is a city requirement rather than a food one, and nobody at the health department will mention it.
Two boundaries define this tier and both are about who buys. Nothing may be sold to a retail store or a restaurant, because this tier is not for resale, with raw unprocessed fruit and vegetables the only exception. And nothing may be sold outside Utah. If either is the plan, look at the other tier.
That other tier is a genuine alternative rather than a punishment. A Cottage Food Establishment registration with UDAF costs $100 to register plus $100 for plan review, and it opens up what this tier closes off.
One caveat on the sourcing. The agency's own page did not spell out the training requirement, so those came from the statute and secondary sources rather than from Utah Department of Agriculture and Food directly. Everything else on this page was read off an official source on September 11, 2026. If one of those points decides your case, ask them.
The short version
What you can sell in Utah
Straight from the official record. Read these as categories rather than a menu, because one recipe can cross the line on its own: a filling that needs refrigeration, a pH that needs testing, or a process that needs an authority to sign it off.
- Any food product prepared in a private home kitchen that can be used, or prepared for use, as food or nonalcoholic drink, except what section 4-5a-105(1) takes out. Utah publishes no allowed list for this tier, so this is derived from the definition
- Baked goods of every kind, including the cream, custard, cheesecake and fresh-fruit items the registered cottage food list bars
- Food that needs refrigeration. This tier carries no shelf-stability or temperature control limit
- Nonalcoholic drinks
- Jams, jellies, preserves, pickles and home-canned goods
- Candy and confections
- Pasteurized dairy products
- Poultry and poultry products, if you slaughter no more than 1,000 birds a year under the USDA 1,000 bird exemption and follow the FSIS exemption guidance
- Domesticated rabbit meat, pending USDA approval that the state’s role in meat inspection is preserved
- Raw, unprocessed fruit and vegetables, which are the one thing on this tier you may sell to a restaurant or a commercial establishment
What is outside the rule
If your product is on this list, the answer is not "ask nicely". It is a different licence, a different kitchen, or both.
- Meat
- Food products containing meat
- Raw, unpasteurized dairy products
- Anything sold to a retail store or a restaurant. This tier is not for resale, and raw unprocessed fruit and vegetables are the only exception
- Anything sold outside Utah. The food has to be produced and sold within the state
- Alcoholic drink, since the definition covers food and nonalcoholic drink only
Where you are allowed to sell it
The researched record lists direct sales, farmers markets, delivery.
One channel being open does not open the rest. Shipping, delivery and wholesale each turn on the product and where it is going, so check the route you actually plan to use.
