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
• Opening a Food Item (Ingredient or Prepared Food) 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] window 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. 
   • 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.

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 click the Nutritional Content tab.
   
   
    
2. In the Preferences section, click the Add link. An Add field appears at the bottom of the section. 
   
   
    
3. From the Add drop-down field, select the preference group to which you want to add the recipe. You can select more than one group.
    
4. Click the Add button below the drop-down field. The preference group(s) to which you added the recipe is listed. 
   
   
   
   Hovering over the group displays the name of the user who added the recipe to the preference group. 
   
   

Note: If the recipe had been removed from a preference group to which it was automatically added to because of one of its ingredients, the preference group appears with a strikethrough line and the green add icon (). You can re-add the recipe to the preference group by clicking the green add icon. 

Opening a Food Item (Ingredient or Prepared Food) and Adding it to a Preference Group

For a food item (ingredient or prepared food), a means to add it to a preference group is from the food item itself. To do so: 

1. Open the food item and click the Nutritional Content tab.
   
   
    
2. In the Preferences section, click the Add link. An Add field appears at the bottom of the section. 
   
   
    
3. From the Add drop-down field, select the preference group to which you want to add the food item. You can select more than one group.
    
4. Click the Add button below the drop-down field. The preference group(s) to which you added the food item is listed. 
   
   
   
   Hovering over the group displays the name of the user who added the food item to the preference group. 
   
   
   
   In addition, you can revert the food item to its original associated preferences group by clicking the revert icon indicated below.  
   
   

FAQs

When I hover over a preference group to which the recipe was manually added, the text only states "Added by user" rather than the name and date?

For a preference group that a recipe was added to prior to the July 2025 release of recipe enhancements, the system did not capture the user and date, and therefore the text only "Added by user" appears instead of the name and date.