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This Quick Start assumes two things:
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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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Optional: Select |
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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 this the Formulation screen, click +Add New Food.
On 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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Select the for Food Items field
Select the appropriate food from the search results by clicking on it
Enter the amount and select the measure.
Continue entering the remaining foods in the same manner.
Click Return to Recipe when you have completed this task.
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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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Volume Conversion
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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.
5. Adjust the Allergens
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.
Optional: Override Nutrients
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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 food items the Recipe was built from.
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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
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Type the new value in the override column
6. Review Ingredient
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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
click Edit Ingredient Statement
Labels
This list shows all the Labels that have been generated using the current Recipe.
Notes, Images, Attachments and Custom Fields
By completing the above tasks, you now have a Recipe you can use to generate a 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 Recipe 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 Recipe page.
Attachments
You can attach any type of document to this Recipe.
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 Recipe, you or the authorized user can click Approve.
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