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Add Ingredients from the Managed Database

⏱ 2–3 minutes  ·  Before you start: create your organisation

Before you can build a recipe you need ingredients — same principle as a regular kitchen. The best place to start is the managed ingredient database: thousands of supplier products that Prepsheets keeps verified and up to date for you, including prices, allergens and full nutritional information.

Two ways to add ingredients

From the Ingredients page (left-hand menu) you have two options:

• Add Managed Ingredient — browse and select from a supplier's verified catalogue. Best for getting started, and what this guide covers.
• Upload — import your own local ingredients from a CSV file. Covered in the next guide.

Step 1: Choose your supplier

1. Click Ingredients in the left-hand menu.
2. Click Add Managed Ingredient.
3. Search for your supplier — for example, Musgrave — and select it.

Step 2: Find and add products

You can search the supplier's catalogue two ways:

• By product code — fastest if you have an invoice or order sheet in front of you. Type the code and the exact product appears.
• By name — type what the product is, e.g. caster sugar, eggs, lemon.

Click Add next to each product you want. That's it — the ingredient is now in your organisation.

Step 3: What you get with a managed ingredient

Click any ingredient you've added to open its detail page. Because it's verified from the supplier's own data, it arrives complete:

• Price and product code — including the supplier's EAN code, so you know it's exactly the right product.
• Label description — the actual sub-ingredients of the product. A frozen baguette, for example, lists wheat flour, water, rye flour, yeast and salt.
• Allergens — split into Contains and May Contain, each marked Verified with the date it was last checked.
• Nutrition per 100g — energy, fat, carbohydrate, fibre, protein and salt, also verified and dated.

All of this flows automatically into your recipes — and prints on the food labels you generate from them. You never have to type in allergen or nutrition data for a managed ingredient.