Allergen Group: Adding/Removing Food Items

• Adding Food Items to Allergen Group
• Removing Food Items from an Allergen Group

Adding Food Items to Allergen Group

An account has the ability to add food items (i.e., ingredients and prepared foods) to any allergen group available to that account (including priority allergen groups). A food item added by an account will flow down to its child accounts, but not flow up to its parent accounts. 

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To add a food item to an allergen group, complete the following steps: 

1. Search for and open the desired allergen group.
   
   
2. Click the Assigned Foods tab.
   
   
   
   
3. Click the Add Foods button. The Add Food to [Allergen 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 MealSuite 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 is already included in the allergen 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 allergen group. The window closes and the newly-added food item is listed an an allergen.
   
   
10. Close the slide-out panel. 

Removing Food Items from an Allergen Group

If your account added a food item to an allergen group (explained above), then you also have the ability to remove that food item from the allergen group. To do so, complete the following steps: 

1. Search for and open the desired allergen group and then click the Assigned Foods tab. 
   
   
   
   
2. To remove an item click its Remove button. 
   
   
3. If removing multiple items, you can select the check box of each item to be removed and then click the Remove button. When removing multiple items, a confirmation dialog box appears prompting you to type the name of the allergen group and then click Delete. 
   
   
   
   
4. Close the slide-out panel.