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BEFORE YOU BEGIN

  • Create one or a few Ingredients that you can use in this Recipe. If you need instruction on how to do that, refer to the Ingredient Quickstart.

1. First things first

  1. Log in to Genesis Foods with your email and the password you received from your admin.

  2. On the Dashboard, click New Recipe.

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2. 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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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

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

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

Optional: Add a Product or Supplier.

Type

  1. Click in the Product or Supplier

names in the fields. These can be used later for searching

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  2. Use the type-ahead search to find a Product or Supplier

  3. Click a Product or Supplier to add it to your Ingredient.

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Tags can only be added and deleted from the Options screen

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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.

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Optional: Use the search filters.

Item Name - Searches only the name, and not tags, product, supplier, etc

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  • Tags - Searches by Tags

  • Custom Fields - Searches by Cutsom Fields

  • Item Code - Searches for the Item Code associated with food items in the included database

  • Gov. Code - Searcher for the Gov. Code associated with food items in the included database

    • Supplier/Product - Type in the name or partial name of the Ingredient/food item plus the name of the supplier and product

    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 To set your Serving Size:, do one of the following

    • Choose A Recipe makes … and enter the number of servings.

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      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.

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      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 Recipe.

    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.

    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 adjustments 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 Again, 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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    1. Click Reset Allergens

    2. When the dialog opens asking if you’re sure, click I understand.

    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.

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    To override the nutrients, type the new value in the override column. The %DV will automatically be recalculated to reflect the override.

    6. Review 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.

    Edit your Ingredient Statement

    To modify your ingredient statement

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    6. Review the 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.

    To Modify your Ingredient Statement

    1. 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.

    2. Click an Ingredient in that list

    3. For the selected Ingredient, choose an existing Alias or create a new one. When you do so, you’ll see the preview update with that Alias.

    4. When you are finished, click Return to Recipe.

    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.

    Once you have finalized your Ingredient, you 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.”

    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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