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BEFORE YOU BEGIN
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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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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 Ingredient.
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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,
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a Tag for your Ingredient:
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Tags can only be added and deleted from the Options screen |
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Optional: Add a Product or Supplier.
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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.
To enter a weight and unit of measure, type in the Weight amount and select the Unit.
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Nutrients
Select U.S. Label Nutrients Mandatory or U.S. Label Nutrients All. U.S. Label Nutrients Mandatory is the list of 15 nutrients required on your U.S. Nutrition Facts. The U.S. Label Nutrient All list contains all mandatory and voluntary nutrients and is a much longer list. However, if you will be using any voluntary nutrients on your Label, you should definitely use this list.
Populate the nutrient values. If you have selected the U.S. Label Nutrients All list, it’s helpful to use the search to find individual nutrients you wish to populate. Note: The nutrients are listed in the order they will appear on your Label. When you enter a nutrient value, that nutrient’s %DV will be automatically calculated for the recommendation you have selected.
Conversions
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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. |
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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
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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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Here is where you add your Ingredient’s nutrient data. We recommend adding as much as possible. At the very least, you should populate the nutrients that are required on a Label.
Select U.S. Label Nutrients Mandatory. The U.S. Label Nutrients Mandatory list is the list of 15 nutrients required on a U.S. Nutrition Facts.
Click in the Value column for Calories
Enter the number of Calories.
Click in the Value column for Protein
Type in the quantative value for Protein in grams. There is no need to enter the unit of measure. Notice that the %DV is automatically calculated.
Continue in the same manner for the remaining nutrients.
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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
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has implemented warnings and checks to help you make sure your allergen declaration is correct.
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The initial assumption is that your Ingredient does not contain any of the allergens. You must, therefore, move any allergens your product contains to the Contains bucket.
If you want to declare an allergen that may be present during processing (not required), you can move it to the May Contain bucket.
To move an allergen from the Contains to the Not Present bucket, do one of the following:
Click the right arrow
Drag and drop
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Click and hold the grip
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Those allergens that remain in the Contains bucket will appear on your allergen statement. And those that remain in the May Contain bucket will appear in the cautionary statement. Remember, In both cases, you must select the specific type or species of shellfish, fish and tree nuts must display the specific type or species.
To display a specific type or species
Click the link Shellfish, Fish or Tree Nut.
From the list, select the specific type or species. Use the type-ahead search to narrow the selections.
Once you have selected the species, the alert will disappear and the species or type will appear in the Contains Preview in alphabetical order.
May Contain
The May Contain bucket lets you declare allergens that could be present in your food due to processing or other reasons. You are not required to declare these allergens, but if you do, you must also declare the specific type or species of fish, shellfish or tree nuts.
To move an allergen from the Contains to the May Contain bucket, do one of the following:
Click the right arrow
Drag and drop
To move an allergen from the Not Present to the May Contain bucket, do one of the following:
Click the left arrow
Drag and drop
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Allergen alerts
Allergen alerts appear in two places: At the top of the Ingredient page
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and at the top of the Allergen section.
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These will remain until you click the verification button.
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Optional: Copy your preview statementOnce you have set up your Contains (and/or May Contain) statement, you can copy either or both statements to the clipboard as plain text. |
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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.
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.
Images
The image you upload here will appear at the top of the Ingredient page.
Attachments
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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.
Once you have finalized your Ingredient, you or the authorized user 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.”