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
Log in to Genesis Foods with your email and the password you received from your admin.
On the Dashboard, click New Recipe.
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.
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:
Click in the Tags field
Enter search terms by typing on top of Search for a tag
Click a tag to add it to your Ingredient.
Optional: Add a Product or Supplier.
Click in the Product or Supplier field
Use the type-ahead search to find a Product or Supplier
Click a Product or Supplier to add it to your Ingredient.
Tags can only be added and deleted from the Options screen
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.
Click Edit Recipe
On the Formulation screen, click +Add New Food.
On the Search screen that opens, type words or partial words into the Search for Food Items field
Select the appropriate food from the search results by clicking on it
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.
Note: Only weight units are available until you have added a volume or unit conversion to your Ingredient.
Optional: Use the search filters.
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.
To set your Serving Size, do one of the following
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.
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.
Click Add Volume Conversion
Enter the quantity and the volume measure
Enter the equivalent amount per gram weight.
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
Click Add Unit Conversion
Enter the quantity and the household measure
Enter the equivalent amount per gram weight.
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 you can make at the Recipe level.
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 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.
Because the allergens are rolled up from the Ingredient level, Genesis Foods limits how you can move them at the Recipe level.
The color of an arrow will indicate if it can be moved that direction: A dark arrow indicates that it can; a lighter grey arrow indicates that it cannot.
You can move an allergen:
From the Not Present bucket to the May Contain bucket
From the Not Present bucket to the Contains bucket
From the May Contain to the Contains bucket
You cannot move any allergen in the opposite direction except to return it to its original bucket.
To move an allergen, do one of the following:
Click the right or left arrow
Click and hold the grip
icon to drag it to another bucket
To reset the Allergens back to their original state (as determined by the Ingredients):
Click Reset Allergens
When the dialog opens asking if you’re sure, click I understand.
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
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 Ingredient in that list
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.
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.
A Recipe must be Approved for you to use on a Label.
Genesis Foods will save the Recipe in that state, and you will not be able to edit the approved version. If, however, you open this approved Recipe and make any changes to it, Genesis Foods will automatically create a new editable version and call it something like: “V1. Draft.”