Note: Genesis Foods will automatically save your work every few seconds, but there are some actions that require a manual save.
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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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This will take you to the Recipe page where you where build and customize your Recipe, usually as the basis of a Nutrition Facts Label.
Names & Tags
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2. Name your Recipe
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Type the name of your Recipe in the Name text field
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using the established naming best practices agreed on by your organization. The Name entry can accommodate letters and numbers. Example:
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Sweet potato soup, cooked, canned.
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Optional: Add an Alias.
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a Tag for your Ingredient:
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Optional: Add a Product or Supplier.
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Tags can only be added and deleted from the Options screen |
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Formulation
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3. Formulate Your Recipe
The Formulation screen is where you add food items and their amounts to your Recipe, much like building a recipe in the real world.
Click Edit Recipe
On the Formulation screen, click +Add New Food.
On this the Search screen that opens, type words or partial words into the Search box
Optional: Select from the following databases to filter your searches:
All (This includes all of the foods in the database: yours, your organizations and those included in the program)
My foods
Optional: Select from the following states to filter your searches:
Approved
Draft
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for Food Items field
Select the appropriate food from the search results by clicking on it
Enter the amount and select the measureby typing in a value and selecting the weight unit from the drop-down menu.
Continue entering the remaining foods in the same manner.
Click Return to Recipe when you have completed this task.
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Note: Only weight units are available until you have added a volume or unit conversion to your Ingredient. |
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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 your Serving Size here:
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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Optional: Add a Volume Conversion. If you are creating a liquid Recipe, 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 |
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Optional: Add a Unit Conversion. If you want to add common household or other non-weight measures (for both liquids and solids), you would do that under Unit Conversions |
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Allergens
Note to Jill Hohnstein (Unlicensed): This needs fleshed out when the UI is done.
If you have set your allergens at the Ingredient level for all of the ingredients in your recipe, the Recipe Allergen section will correctly reflect that. You can also choose to set the allergens for the entire recipe here or override the existing allergen settings.
Nutrients and Overrides
The Nutrient amounts shown here are for one serving of the Recipe and have been calculated from the nutrient amounts entered for the food items the Recipe was built from.
You can see that each populated nutrient will also display a %DV.
As with the allergens, you can override the nutrients here.
Nutrients to View
Select here which list of nutrients you wish to see
Search for Nutrients
Type the nutrient here rather than scrolling through the list
To override the nutrients:
Type the new value in the override column
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5. Adjust the Allergens
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. |
The Ingredient allergens will determine the Recipe allergens. In the example below, one or more of the Ingredients contains Milk, Abalone, Soy, Tree Nuts and/or Wheat. Specific species/types are required on the allergen statement for Fish, Shellfish and Tree Nuts. Note that, in this example, Shellfish and Tree Nuts also display their species/type, and only the species/type appears in the statement preview.
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Because the allergens are rolled up from the Ingredient level, Genesis Foods limits how you can move them at the Recipe level.
The color of an arrow will indicate if it can be moved that direction: A dark arrow indicates that it can; a lighter grey arrow indicates that it cannot.
You can move an allergen:
From the Not Present bucket to the May Contain bucket
From the Not Present bucket to the Contains bucket
From the May Contain to the Contains bucket
You cannot move any allergen in the opposite direction except to return it to its original bucket.
To move an allergen, do one of the following:
Click the right or left arrow
Click and hold the grip icon to drag it to another bucket
To reset the Allergens back to their original state (as determined by the Ingredients):
Click Reset Allergens
When the dialog opens asking if you’re sure, click I understand.
6. Review the 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.
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click Edit Ingredient Statement
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Optional: Override the Nutrient values 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. To override the nutrients, type the new value in the override column. The %DV will automatically be recalculated to reflect the override. |
Labels
This list shows all the Labels that have been generated using the current Recipe.
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