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BEFORE YOU BEGIN
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Recipes are built by searching for and adding Ingredients, much like creating a recipe in real life. You can build a Recipe for a variety of reasons — seeing how a change to an ingredient will affect the nutrient picture is one example — but the primary reason you will build a Recipe in Genesis Foods is to use it for a Nutrition Facts Label.
You can build a Recipe from food items (ingredients, recipes, processing items, etc.) included in the database that comes with Genesis Foods or you can add your own Ingredients.
This page discusses the differences.
To build a Recipe
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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 Recipe.
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This will bring you to the Recipe page, from which you can access all the features needed for completing your Recipe.
Naming Your Recipe
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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.
To name your Recipe
Type the name of your Recipe 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: Sweet potato soup, cooked, canned.
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The name will also appear in the page’s header.
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To clear out the name text
Click the round X icon.
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To change the name
Type a new name in the Name field.
Aliases
An Alias is an optional shortened or more user-friendly version of your Recipe’s name. Aliases can be used in your ingredient statement or on reports. You can enter as many Aliases as you want for your Recipe.
For example, if the name of your Recipe is something like Sweet potato soup, cooked, canned, one Alias might be something like Sweet Potato Soup.
To enter an Alias
Type any alphanumeric combination in the text field
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Press Enter on the keyboard
Repeat steps 1 and 2 for additional Aliases
Aliases will appear as pills in the order they were created.
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To delete an Alias
Click the round X icon on the pill
Organizing and Searching - Tags, Supplier, Product
The Tags, Product, and Supplier fields can be used to make searching for your Recipe easier, and help you organize your work. This is especially important if you have a lot of Recipes or Ingredients.
Tags
You can associate a tag to a Recipe to narrow future searches.
To select a tag for your Recipe
Click in the Tags field
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. You will see a list of available tags.
You can also type in the search box to narrow this list.
Click a tag to add it to your
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Recipe.
Optional: Add a Product or Supplier.
Type the Product or Supplier names in the fields. These can be used later for searching.
You can do this for as many tags as you’d like. You will be able to use these tags in future searches.
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Note: Many tags have been pre-populated for you. You can add to the list of available tags on the Options page. |
To remove a tag from your Recipe
Click the round X icon.
Formulate Your Recipe
The Formulation screen is where you add Ingredients or other food items and their amounts to your Recipe, much like building a recipe in the real world. Genesis Foods will use the nutrient data from the Ingredients to calculate the nutrient data for the Recipe, so it’s important to make sure that your Ingredient data is correctly populated before using the Ingredients in a Recipe.
Click Edit Recipe
On the Formulation screen that opens, click +Add New Food.
On the Search screen that opensdialog, type words or partial words into the Search for Food Items field. You can narrow your searches with the filters at the top:
My foods only filters out the included database
Item Name will return only the food items with the search term(s) in the item name
Custom Fields will return only the food items with that associated custom field
Item code will return only the included database items with that code. Note: This will not work if My foods only is selected
Gov. code will return only the included database items with that code. Note: This will not work if My foods only is selected
Supplier/Product will return only those food items that have been assigned that specific Supplier or Product
You can also toggle between Approved, Draft or All Items
Select the appropriate food from the search results by clicking on it. This adds it to the Recipe.
Once you have added that Ingredient to your Recipe, it will not appear in the search results again.
Enter the amount by 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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When you have completed this task, you will see your Ingredients listed in the order entered.
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You may, however, choose to sort them differently.
To sort by any column
Click its arrows. You can assort ascending or descending.
The Name column is sorted alphabetically
The Amount column is sorted numerically, regardless of unit
The Gram weight column is sorted by weight
To delete a food item from the Recipe
Click the trashcan icon
To return to the main Recipe page
Click Return to Recipe. Your Recipe is now viewable on the main Recipe page.
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.
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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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Note: The displayed will always reflect the total weight of all the Ingredients in the Recipe, regardless of the serving size or numbers of servings entered. |
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Optional: Preparation Instructions
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The Prep Instructions are text fields that will not affect any of your Recipe’s other elements or its analysis. They’re here merely to let you record any instructions you need for the preparation of your Recipe.
Conversions
Unit Conversion
Since the Recipe nutrient data is added by weight, you might want to add more user-friendly household measures to your Ingredient. In order to correctly add a conversion, you must know the weight of that conversion amount.
To add a Unit Conversion
Click the plus icon
Enter the conversion amount by typing in a quantity and selecting a household measure
Enter the weight for the corresponding amount
Click Apply.
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 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 Recipe.
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To add a Volume Conversion
Click the plus icon
Enter the volume conversion amount by typing in a quantity and
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selecting a volume measure
Enter the
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Click Save.
Optional: Add a Unit Conversion.
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weight
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Click Add Unit Conversion
Enter the quantity and the household measure
Enter the equivalent amount per gram weight.
Click Save.
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the corresponding amount
Click Apply.
You can only enter — and will only need to enter — one volume conversion.
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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Click Reset Allergens
When the dialog opens asking if you’re sure, click I understand.
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If you want to use either statement on your food product packaging, you can copy them as text and paste them into a word-processing or design document. |
Ingredient Statement
The Ingredient Statement preview will show how your ingredient statement will look without any modifications. In most cases, you will want to use an Alias for each of the ingredients, to make it easier to read.
Modify Ingredients
To Modify your Ingredient Statement
Click Edit Ingredient Statement. In the Modify Ingredients pane, you’ll see your Ingredients listed by weight, which is the order they must appear in the ingredient statement.
Click an any Ingredient in that list
For the selected Ingredient, depending on how you want it to appear in the ingredient statement, choose an existing Alias or create a new one. When you do so, you’ll see the preview update with that Alias.
Optional: Add supplemental text. You can add text or symbols — like an asterisk or (used a preservative) — in front of or after the ingredient.
Ingredient Statement Options
The title will default to “Ingredients” in all caps. This is standard. You may, however, wish to use a different word for the title or a different case
To change your ingredient statement title
Type the new text.
If you have added an asterisk to an ingredient, indicating a footnote, you must also create the footnote.
To create and add text to a footnote
Type in an * asterisk.
Type the footnote text.
When you are finished making all the necessary modifications, click Return to Recipe.
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If you want to use thsi ingredient statement on your food product packaging, you can copy it and paste it into a word-processing or design document. |
Nutrients and their Overrides
This is where you can see the per-serving nutrient analysis for your Recipe, shown in the example below as “Per 100 Grams.” You can also override the nutrient values if, for example, you have obtained a lab analysis that shows different results.
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Search Nutrients
It can be helpful to use the search if you are viewing a long list of nutrients, like all of them.
To search for a particular nutrient, start typing its name in the Filter Nutrients field
Nutrient List
These are lists of specific nutrients. We recommend that you chose the same list here as you did when populating the nutrient values of your Ingredients. Some lists have been pre-populated for you, but you can also add your own lists on the Options page.
To select a nutrient list, choose it from the drop-down menu
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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. |
Override
To override a nutrient
Click either the %DV number or the space in the Override column
Enter the new value.
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Notice that when you enter a new %DV, that nutrient’s quantative value automatically updates. And vice versa. |
Notes, Labels, 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 or simplify your workload.
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. The date and login name will be automatically recorded.
Labels
These are all of the Labels that use this Recipe.
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. You can only add a Custom Field to the program on the Options page.
Approval
By completing the above tasks, you now have an Recipe you can use to build a compliant Label.
Once you have finalized your IngredientRecipe, you can click Approve. Genesis Foods will save the ingredient Recipe in that state, and you will not be able to edit the Approved version. If, however, you open this Approved Ingredient approved Recipe and make any changes to it, Genesis Foods will automatically create a new editable version and call it something like: “V1. Draft.”