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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.
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.
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Type the name of your Ingredient in the Name text field. The Name entry can accommodate letters and numbers. Example: Vegetable, raw, sweet potato, 8”
The name will also appear in the header.
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To clear out the name text
Click the round X icon.
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To change the name
Type a new name in the name field.
Aliases
An Alias is an optional shortened or more user-friendly version of your Ingredient’s name. Aliases 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 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
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Press Enter on the keyboard
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Repeat steps 1 and 2 for additional aliases
Aliases will appear as pills in the order they were created.
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To delete an Alias
Click the round X icon on the pill
Tags
You can associate a tag to an Ingredient to narrow future searches, which will help you organize your work.
To select a tag for your Ingredient
Click in the Tags field
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. You will see a list of available tags.
You can also type in the search box to narrow this list.
Click a tag to add it to your
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Ingredient.
You can do this for as many tags as you’d like. You will be able to use these tags in future searches.
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Note: Tags can only be added and deleted from the Options screenpage. |
To remove a tag from your Ingredient
Click the round X icon.
Weight & Conversions
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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.
To enter a weight and unit of measure
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Type in the Weight weight amount and select the Unitunit.
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Nutrients
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Select U.S. Label Nutrients Mandatory or U.S. Label Nutrients All. U.S. Label Nutrients Mandatory is the list of 15 nutrients required on your U.S. Nutrition Facts. The U.S. Label Nutrient All list contains all mandatory and voluntary nutrients and is a much longer list. However, if you will be using any voluntary nutrients on your Label, you should definitely use this list.
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Unit Conversion
Since the Ingredient nutrient data is added by weight, you might want to add more user-friendly household measures (like cup, slice, serving, etc.) to your Ingredient. Later, you can use those amounts when formulating your Recipe. In order to correctly add a conversion, you must know the weight of that conversion amount.
To add a Unit Conversion
Click the plus icon
Enter the conversion amount by typing in a quantity and selecting a household measure
Enter the weight for the corresponding amount
Click Apply.
You can add other unit conversions in the same manner. Genesis will also scale the units appropriately for common measures such as teaspoon (will scale to tablespoon, cup, etc.).
Volume Conversion
If your product is a liquid product, and especially if you want to generate a nutrition facts label for it, you will want to enter a volume conversion for it. Remember, you entered the nutrients per their weight, so in order for Genesis Foods to understand this product as a liquid, you have to manually enter the weight to liquid conversion. You will only have to do this for one unit. Genesis Foods can use that unit to calculate other liquid units.
To add a Volume Conversion
Click the plus icon
Enter the volume conversion amount by typing in a quantity and selecting a volume measure
Enter the weight for the corresponding amount
Click Apply.
You can only enter — and will only need to enter — one volume conversion.
Nutrients
Here is where you will populate the nutrient data for your Ingredient. Enter as much information as you have. You can enter data for all nutrients tracked by Genesis Foods or enter nutrients for one or more of the compiled lists.
To enter Nutrients
Choose your list of nutrients. These are premade sets of nutrients you can enter data for. You can create your own list of nutrients on the Options page.
From the Show %DV for menu, choose which recommendation profile you want to show the %DV for. Most of the time, this will be Adult.
Populate the nutrient values. You can enter the quantitative value or the %DV per the recommendation profile you have selected. When you enter a nutrient value, that nutrient’s %DV will be automatically calculated for the recommendation you have selected and vice versa.
Conversions
If you creating a liquid Ingredient and your nutrients are entered per weight, here is where you will enter the Volume Conversion. The program will use this conversion to display an appropriate liquid amount on the Label. You can only add one liquid conversion per ingredient.
Volume Conversion
Click Add Volume Conversion
Enter the quantity and the volume measure
Enter the equivalent amount per gram weight.
Click Save.
If you want to add common household or other non-weight measures (for both liquids and solids), you would do that under Unit Conversions
Unit Conversion
Click Add Unit Conversion
Enter the quantity and the household measure
Enter the equivalent amount per gram weight.
Click Save.
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If you have selected one of the longers lists, you can use the type-ahead search to find specific nutrients.
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Note: The nutrients are listed in the order they will appear on your Label. If you have a longer list, the nutrients are listed by Label order followed by category. |
Allergens
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Regulations require the declaration of any allergens present in your food product. For this reason and, more importantly, for consumer-safety purposes, Genesis Foods initially assumes that all Ingredients contain all allergens. |
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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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