In order to build a Recipe, you must first have the Ingredients for the Recipe. You can use the food items included in the database or add your own.
Included vs. Added
Included Database Foods
Genesis® Foods comes with a database of more than 85,000 food items, including raw ingredients, recipes, processing items like colors and additives and more.
We research and compile our nutrient data from the latest USDA food databases, manufacturers, restaurants, literature and many other reputable sources, and run this data through a series of mathematical checks to ensure accuracy.
In addition, we provide several calculated fields, such as the percent calories from fat and niacin equivalents. We also group foods into detailed food categories and add diabetic exchange and MyPlate food group information to database items.
Reliability of Data
There can be many different nutrient values for a given food. Various factors influence the amounts of nutrients in foods. Among these are the mineral content of the soil, diet of an animal, fertilizers or growth hormones used, genetics of the plant or animal, season of harvest, and processing method. Additional factors include the methods of analysis, differences in moisture content of samples, length and method of sample storage, number of samples tested, and varying methods of cooking or preparing the food. As a result, even reliable sources will report different nutrient values for the same food item. When the USDA reports a single value for a nutrient, that value is usually the average of a range of data. In their more detailed reports, the number of samples and standard deviation of the data are noted.
Nutrient data should be viewed and used only as a guide – a close approximation of the true nutrient content.
Pre-label data from food manufacturers is compiled, when available, to build the nutrient database for brand-name food items.
Blanks in the ESHA database represent cases where there is either no available data or a lack of reliable data. A zero value means that an item has been analyzed and there is no nutrient content.
User-Added Ingredients
When you add an Ingredient to the database, you can expect to enter nutrient data from a certificate of analysis or spec sheet from your ingredient supplier. User-Added Ingredients belong to you and your organization only. They are not accessible by anyone else using the program, including Trustwell. As such, we cannot run our accuracy checks on your foods.
You can use your ingredients and the included ingredients in the same manner. Note, however, that if you use our ingredients and your ingredients in the same recipe, there’s a chance that not all of the same nutrients will be populated. To check if one or more of your ingredients is missing a value, look for the double dashes in the Nutrients section.