Allergen Group: Adding/Removing Food Items

• Adding Food Items to Allergen Group
• Removing Food Items from an Allergen Group
  • When a Food Item is Removed from an Allergen Group
  • When an Allergen Group is No Longer Associated with a Recipe
  • Restoring a Removed Item to the 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 (which includes priority allergen groups and allergen groups owned by a parent account). 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. 
   • 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

Your account has the ability to remove food items from an allergen group, including an allergen group owned by a parent account. When removing an item from an allergen group owned by a parent account, that removal only applies to your account and not the parent account. In other words, the item is not removed from the allergen group at the parent account level. 

When a food item is removed from an allergen group, the system displays the removed item with a strikethrough line, along with the name of the user who removed it, and the datetime stamp when the item was removed. A removed item can be easily restored to the allergen group if needed (as per instructions below).

To remove food item from an allergen group, 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 link in the Actions column, and then click the Remove button on the confirmation message that appears. 
   
   
    
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. When an item is removed, it appears with a strikethrough, and the name of the user who removed the allergen group. 
   
   
   
   In addition, by hovering your cursor over the name, a datetime stamp appears to inform you when the item was removed.
   
   
    
5. Close the slide-out panel. 

When a Food Item is Removed from an Allergen Group

When a food item is removed from an allergen group (as per above), the following occurs: 

When viewing the food item, the allergen group that the food item was removed from is displayed with a strikethrough, as indicated with Carrots in the screenshot below. (Note that allergen groups are displayed in the Nutritional Content tab). 

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

When an Allergen Group is No Longer Associated with a Recipe

When a food item is removed from an allergen group 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.

Restoring a Removed Item to the Allergen Group

To restore a removed item to the allergen group, complete the following steps:

1. Search for and open the desired allergen group and then click the Assigned Foods tab. 
   
   
    
2. For the item to be restored, click its Restore link in the Actions column. The item is restored to the allergen group.