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BEFORE YOU BEGIN

  1. Gather the information you need for creating an Ingredient, such as a spec sheet, certificate of analysis or other documentation with the nutrition breakdown of your Ingredient.

  2. Obtain a login and password from your admin so you can use Genesis Foods.

1. First things first

  1. Log in to Genesis Foods with your email and password.

  2. On the Dashboard, click New Ingredient.

2. Name Your Ingredient

  • Type the name of your Ingredient 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: Vegetable, raw, sweet potato, medium.

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Optional: Add an Alias.

  • Type any alphanumeric combination in the text field. Aliases will be used in the Ingredient Statement and on reports. Example: Cauliflower Rice w/Veggies

Optional: Select a Tag for your Ingredient:

  1. Click in the Tags field

    1. Enter search terms by typing on top of Search for a tag

    2. Click a tag to add it to your Ingredient.

Optional: Add a Product or Supplier.

  • Type the Product or Supplier names in the fields. These can be used later for searching.

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3. Enter the Ingredient’s 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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Optional: Add a Volume Conversion.

If you are 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.

  1. Click Add Volume Conversion

  2. Enter the quantity and the volume measure

  3. Enter the equivalent amount per gram weight.

  4. Click Save.

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

  1. Click Add Unit Conversion

  2. Enter the quantity and the household measure

  3. Enter the equivalent amount per gram weight.

  4. Click Save.

4. Populate the Nutrients

The values entered here will be used to calculate the per-serving amounts for the nutrients in the Ingredient’s containing Recipe.

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Note: You can also enter the Adult %DV for your nutrient and the quantative amount will be calculateed.

5. Adjust the Allergens

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. Your job is to determine when an allergen can be moved to the Not Present bucket or, in some cases, the May Contains bucket.

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Once you have selected the species, the alert will disappear and the species or type will appear in the preview in alphabetical order.

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Optional: Copy your preview statement

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.

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.

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