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This Quick Start assumes two things: (1) you have created the Ingredients for this Recipe or know that they exist in the included database; and (2) you have successfully obtained a login and password from your admin.
Note: Genesis Foods will automatically save your work every few seconds, but there are some actions that require a manual save.
First steps
Log in to Genesis Foods with your email and the password you received from your admin.
On the Dashboard, click the New Recipe button.
Names & Tags
Enter a name for your Recipe using the established naming best practices agreed on by your organization. The Name entry can accommodate letters and numbers. Example: Formulation recipe, dish, cauliflower rice with peas and carrots, 2 servings
(Optional) Enter an Alias. An Alias is a shortened or more user-friendly version of your Ingredient’s name. Aliases will be used in the Ingredient Statement and on reports. Example: Cauliflower Rice w/Veggies
(Optional) Select from the available existing tags.
Tags can only be added and deleted from the Options screen
Formulation
Setting a Serving Size
Conversions
If you creating a liquid ingredient, 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.
If you want to add common household or other non-weight measures (for both liquids and solids), you would do that under Unit Conversions
Expand the conversion you want to add
Enter the volume or unit amount per the gram weight.
Click Save. (This is one of the manual save moments we talked about earlier.)
Allergens
Your tasks are to (a) remove any allergens not in your Ingredient, (b) select the appropriate type or species when necessary and (c) decide if you want to declare the possibility of allergens that may have contaminated the food during processing.
Regulations require the declaration of any allergens present in your food product. For consumer-safety purposes, Genesis Foods must assume that all Ingredients contain all allergens.
Scroll to the Allergens section and click Edit Allergens.
Add any Allergens you know are present in this Ingredient. You can also declare any “May contains” allergens if your Ingredient could be contaminated with Allergens during processing.
Notes, Images, 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.
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
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.
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.”