Preference Group: Adding Ingredients, Prepared Foods, Recipes

• About Adding Ingredients, Prepared Foods and Recipes to a Preference Group
• Opening a Preference Group and Adding Ingredients, Prepared Foods, Recipes
• Opening a Recipe and Adding It to a Preference Group

About Adding Ingredients, Prepared Foods and Recipes to a Preference Group

The means to add an ingredient, prepared food or recipe to a preference group is by opening the preference group and adding the items; see Opening a Preference Group and Adding Ingredients, Prepared Foods, Recipes below. 

For a recipe, there is also the option of adding it to a preference group from the recipe itself; see Opening a Recipe and Adding It to a Preference Group below. 

Opening a Preference Group and Adding Ingredients, Prepared Foods, Recipes

To add ingredients, prepared foods or recipes to a preference group, complete the following steps: 

1. Search for and open the desired preference group. 
   
   
2. Click the Assigned Foods tab.
   
   
   
   
3. Click the Add Foods button. The Add Food to [Preference Group] pop-up appears.
   
   
   
   
4. Select the Food option and use its associated filters as needed:
   • Food Type - filter by foods (i.e., ingredients) and prepared foods. 
   • Categories - filter by food categories.
   • Tags - filter by tags applied to prepared foods. 
   • Business Lines (exists if your account is associated with more than one business line)
   • Display Served Items Only - includes items that currently appear in recipe extensions, menus, personal menus or diet interventions in your account. 
     
     
5. As another search option, the Vendor Products option is a means to select a food item associated with a vendor product. From the vendor products that are returned from the search results, you then select one, which in turns adds the food item the vendor product is linked with (i.e., vendor product is verified for the food item). In other words, the food item the vendor product is linked with is added, and not the vendor product itself. 
   
   
6. In the Search field, enter the description or ID of the item or product you are searching for and click Go. The search results are returned. 
   
   
7. To view details about the ingredient or prepared food, including seeing if it already is included in the preference group, click its eye icon (), and the Item Preview window appears. 
   
   
   
   
8. For an item you want to add, click its + icon. You can repeat the above steps to add other items. Each time an item is added, the Food to Add section refreshes with a sub-section of the added item. 
   
   
   
   
9. When ready, click the Add button to add the items to the preference group. The window closes and the newly-added food item is listed as a preference.
   
   
10. Close the slide-out panel. 

Opening a Recipe and Adding It to a Preference Group

For a recipe, a means to add it to a preference group is from the recipe itself. To do so: 

1. Open the recipe and expand the Nutritional Content section.
   
   
2. Click the + icon adjacent to the Preferences title. A drop-down field appears with an Add link.
   
   
   

    
3. From the drop-down field, select the preference group to which you want to add the recipe. You can add more than one group.
   
   
4. Click the Add link below the drop-down field. The preference group(s) that you added the recipe to are listed. Note that a recipe manually added to a preference group has a solid red remove icon ().
   
   

If the recipe was manually removed from a preference group that it had been automatically added to because of one of its ingredients, it appears with a strikethrough line and the green add icon (), 

To re-add the recipe to the preference group, click the green add icon (). The strikethrough line disappears to indicate the recipe has been re-added to the preference group.