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BEFORE YOU BEGIN
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1. First things first
Log in to Genesis Foods with your email and the password you received from your admin.
On the Dashboard, click New Recipe.
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2. Name your Recipe
Type the name of your Recipe in the Name text field using the established naming best practices agreed on by your organization. The Name entry can accommodate letters and numbers. Example: Sweet potato soup, cooked, canned.
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Optional: Use the search filters.
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4. Enter a Serving Size
Both the Recipe analysis and the required label nutrition data are based on the nutrient amounts per one serving of your Recipe. You can either divide your Recipe into a set number of servings or enter the weight for one serving.
Set To set your Serving Size:, do one of the following
Choose A Recipe makes … and enter the number of servings.
Genesis Foods will divide the total amounts (of the Recipe’s weight and nutrients) by the number of servings to calculate the per-serving nutrient breakdown.
Choose A Serving is… and enter the amount and weight.
Genesis Foods will calculate the nutrient breakdown per the entered weight, regardless of the total Recipe amounts.
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Because it is a consumer-health concern, Genesis Foods has put in place a few safeguards to prevent you from creating an inaccurate allergen statement for your products. As such, the program requires you to set up your allergens correctly at the Ingredient level, and limits the adjuments you can make at the Recipe level.
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Genesis Foods initially assumes that all Ingredients contain all allergens and requires you to confirm the absence of an allergen at the Ingredient level. |
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Click Reset Allergens
When the dialog opens asking if you’re sure, click I understand.
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The Nutrient amounts shown here are for one serving of the Recipe and have been calculated from the nutrient amounts entered for the Ingredients the Recipe was built from.
You can see that each populated nutrient will also display a %DV.
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To override the nutrients, type the new value in the override column. The %DV will automatically be recalculated to reflect the override.
6. Review Ingredient Statement
The Ingredient Statement shown here uses the first Alias entered for an Ingredient. If an Alias has not been entered, the Ingredient Statement will use the Ingredient’s full name.
Edit your Ingredient Statement
To modify your ingredient statement
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Review the Ingredient Statement
The Ingredient Statement preview will show how your ingredient statement will look without any modifications. In most cases, you will want to use an Alias for each of the ingredients, to make it easier to read.
To Modify your Ingredient Statement
Click Edit Ingredient Statement. In the Modify Ingredients pane, you’ll see your Ingredients listed by weight, which is the order they must appear in the ingredient statement.
Click an Ingredient in that list
For the selected Ingredient, choose an existing Alias or create a new one. When you do so, you’ll see the preview update with that Alias.
When you are finished, click Return to Recipe.
You’re done
By completing the above tasks, you now have an Ingredient you can use to build a Recipe and its compliant Label. The remaining functions — Notes, Images, Attachments and Custom Fields — are not required for labeling and packaging, but are here to help you customize and organize your foods.
Once you have finalized your Ingredient, you can click Approve. Genesis Foods will save the ingredient in that state, and you will not be able to edit the Approved version If, however, you open this Approved Ingredient and make any changes to it, Genesis Foods will automatically create a new editable version and call it something like: “V1. Draft.”
Labels
This list shows all the Labels that have been generated using the current Recipe.
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