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This Quick Start assumes two things: (1) you have gathered the information you need for creating an Ingredient, including a spec sheet, certificate of analysis or other documentation with the nutrition breakdown of your Ingredient; and (2) you have successfully obtained a login and password from your admin. |
Note: Genesis Foods will automatically save your work every few seconds, but there are some actions that require a manual save.
First steps
In order to build a Recipe, you must first have the Ingredients for the Recipe. You can use the food items included in the database or add your own.
To add your own, you will have to have some sort of documentation that has the nutrient breakdown for your Ingredient. This will be a certificate of analysis, an ingredient spec sheet, a lab analysis or even an existing nutrition facts label.
Log in to Genesis Foods with your email and the password you received from your admin. You will land on the program Dashboard.
On the Dashboard, click New Ingredient.
Names & Tags
You will land on the Ingredient page. From here, you can complete all the tasks required for creating an Ingredient and access other, nonessential, features.
Names & Tags
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Name
In order for your Ingredient to be used in a Recipe, it must have a name. Your organization will likely have established best practices for naming that you should use. If not, we recommend that you agree on a naming system before you get started using Genesis Foods.
To name your Ingredient
Type the name of your Ingredient in the Name text field
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. The Name entry can accommodate letters and numbers. Example: Vegetable, raw, sweet potato, 8”
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To clear out the name text
Click the round X icon.
Aliases
An Alias is an optional shortened or more user-friendly version of your Ingredient’s name. Aliases
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can be used in your ingredient statement or on reports. You can enter as many Aliases as you want for your Ingredient.
For example, if the
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name of your Ingredient is something like Fruit, Apple, Fuji, medium, with peel, your Aliases might be something like Fuji apple or just apple.
To enter an Alias
Type any alphanumeric combination in the text field.
Press Enter on the keyboard
Optional: Select from the available existing tags:
Click in the Tags field
Enter search terms by typing on top of Search for a tag
Click a tag to add it to your Recipe.
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Tags can only be added and deleted from the Options screen |
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Weight
This is the weight of the ingredient for which you will enter nutrient amounts. Ninety-nine percent of the time, this will be 100 grams, but you should use whatever is on your spec sheet, certificate of analysis or other ingredient nutrient documentation. 100 grams has been pre-populated for you.
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All of the allergens are in the Contains bucket
There are a number of alerts there and , in the Contains Preview and in the alert banner at the top.
Your task, then, is to make sure the allergens are all in their correct bucket, and without alertsthat the alerts have been resolved.
This is done by removing, not adding.
Contains or Not Present
Again, all of the allergens are initially in the Contains bucket. Everything here will appear in the allergen statement preview at the top, and certain allergens (fish, shellfish and tree nuts) require specific types or species. When you have determined that your product does not contain an allergen, you can move it to the Not Present bucket.
It’s important to note that:
All allergens will always be in one of the buckets.
No allergens will be hidden, so you can always refer to the allergen section to easily and quickly see what allergen declaration decisions you made.
To move an allergen from the Contains to the Not Present bucket, do one of the following:
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Those allergens that remain in the Contains bucket will appear on your in the allergen statement preview. Remember, shellfish, fish and tree nuts must display the specific type or species.
To display a specific type or species
Click the link.
From the list, select the specific type or species. Use the type-ahead to narrow the selections.
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Click the left arrow
Drag and drop
Those allergens that remain in the May Contain bucket will appear in the allergen statement preview. Remember, shellfish, fish and tree nuts must display the specific type or species.
Copy/Paste
Once you have set up your Contains (and/or May Contain) statement, you can copy either or both statements to the clipboard as plain text.
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