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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. 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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Type in the weight amount and select the unit.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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Once you have selected the species, the alert will disappear and the species or type will appear in the Contains Preview in alphabetical order.
May Contain
The May Contain bucket lets you declare allergens that could be present in your food due to processing or other reasons. You are not required to declare these allergens, but if you do, you must also declare the specific type or species of fish, shellfish or tree nuts.
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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.
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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