Build a Recipe

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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.

First steps

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

2. On the Dashboard, click New Recipe.

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

1. To Name your Recipe, type its name in the Name field. Use 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

2. Optional: Enter an Alias by typing any alphanumeric combination in the text box. An Alias is a shortened or more user-friendly version of your Recipe’s name. Aliases will be used in the Ingredient Statement (if you use your Recipe inside another Recipe) and on reports. Example: Cauliflower Rice w/Veggies

3. Optional: Select from the available existing tags:

   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 Recipe.

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 in the weight for one serving.

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

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

• Choose A Serving is… and enter the amount and weight.

Formulation

The Formulation screen is where you add food items and their amounts to your Recipe, much like building a recipe in the real world.

1. Click Edit Recipe

2. On this Search screen, type words or partial words into the Search box

3. Optional: Select from the following databases to filter your searches:

   1. All (This includes all of the foods in the database: yours, your organizations and those included in the program)

   2. My foods

   3. My org’s food (Foods entered by anyone in your organization)

4. Optional: Select from the following states to filter your searches:

   1. Approved

   2. Draft

   3. All

5. Select the appropriate food from the search results by clicking on it

6. Enter the amount and select the measure.

7. Continue entering the remaining foods in the same manner.

8. Click Return to Recipe when you have completed this task.

Conversions

If you 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 ingredient.

Volume Conversion

1. Click Add Volume Conversion

2. Enter the quantity and the volume measure

3. Enter the equivalent amount per gram weight.

4. Click Save.

If you want to add common household or other non-weight measures (for both liquids and solids), you would do that under Unit Conversions

Unit Conversion

1. Click Add Unit Conversion

2. Enter the quantity and the household measure

3. Enter the equivalent amount per gram weight.

4. Click Save.

Allergens

If you have entered your Allergens correctly at the Ingredient level for all of the Ingredients in your Recipe, the Allergen section

Nutrients and Overrides

Ingredient Statements

Labels

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.”