Viewing Allergens Associated with a Recipe

• Viewing Allergens Associated with a Recipe
• When an Allergen Group is No Longer Associated with a Recipe
• FAQs
  • I use a shell recipe in the system (i.e., one without ingredients) for display purposes on tickets/personal menu/menu WaaG view. Can allergens be associated with a shell recipe?
  • Do allergens that are associated with a manufacturer product become associated with a food item/ingredient that is in a recipe? 

Viewing Allergens Associated with a Recipe

When an ingredient contained in a recipe belongs to an allergen group, then that recipe is also associated with the allergen group. 

You can see any allergen groups associated with a recipe by opening the recipe, clicking the Nutritional Content tab, and viewing the Allergens section. The system does not allow you to disassociate a recipe from an allergen group as it would pose a safety risk to the people you are serving.

When an Allergen Group is No Longer Associated with a Recipe

In your account it is possible for a food item to be removed from an allergen group (see Removing Food Items from an Allergen Group). When this occurs, then for any recipe that has that food as an ingredient, the recipe will no longer be associated with the allergen group. 

When a recipe is no longer associated with an allergen group, the system displays a strikethrough on the disassociated allergen group, as indicated with Carrots in the screenshot below. 

In addition, when hovering over a disassociated allergen group, the user who removed the food item from the allergen group that caused the disassociation from the recipe is displayed, along with the date the food item was removed from the allergen group. 

FAQs

I use a shell recipe in the system (i.e., one without ingredients) for display purposes on tickets/personal menu/menu WaaG view. Can allergens be associated with a shell recipe?

No. Allergens are associated with an ingredient via an allergen group. Therefore the recipe must contain ingredients in order for the recipe to be associated with allergens. 

Do allergens that are associated with a manufacturer product become associated with a food item/ingredient that is in a recipe? 

No. Allergens associated with a manufacturer product (which in turn is sold by the vendor to become a vendor product) is not transferred to its associated food item (i.e., ingredient) in the system. Instead, the association of allergens to food items are maintained directly in the system and are managed by the MealSuite Nutrition Services team.