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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.
Names & Tags
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Name
In order for your Ingredient to be used in a Recipe, it must have a name. It should also have the correct nutrients and allergens. Everything else is optional.
Names & Tags
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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.
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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.
Notes, Images, Attachments and Custom Fields
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.
Notes
Anything you want to add to this Ingredient that there isn’t an existing field for can go here. It is a simple text-entry field.
Images
The image you upload here will appear at the top of the Ingredient page.
Attachments
You can attach any type of document to this Ingredient, including (and we recommend this) your spec sheet or COA.
Custom Fields
You can associate up to three Custom Fields with your work and pin them to the top of your page. The Custom Fields will appear regardless of what you’re currently working on.
Approve
Once you have finalized your Ingredient, you or the authorized user 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.”
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