Ingredients & allergens

Add an ingredient and review its flags

Create an ingredient using current source information and explicitly review every enabled allergen.

3 min readUpdated

For: Owners and Editors with editing access

In this guide

Find the right product record

Open Ingredients and use Search ingredients before creating another record. Your restaurant’s ingredients and the shared name suggestions are shown separately. A familiar name is not verified information about the product delivered to your kitchen.

Open an existing record if it is genuinely the same ingredient. If you use different products with different facts, keep distinct records and name them clearly. Choose Add ingredient for a new record. You can also create one while adding ingredients in a dish editor.

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Search your restaurant’s records first, then inspect shared-library suggestions before using them.

Record and review the ingredient

  1. Enter Ingredient name.
  2. Add Brand (optional), Supplier (optional), and an internal note when they help identify the product.
  3. Under Review allergens, choose None, Contains, or May contain for every enabled allergen using your source information.
  4. Use Mark remaining allergens as None only after checking those remaining entries. It is an explicit review decision, not a shortcut around missing facts.
  5. Check the preview and reviewed count, then choose Save ingredient.

When creating an ingredient inside a dish, the final button is Save and add ingredient. It adds the new record to the draft dish; you still need to save that dish.

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Record the ingredient name, supplier details and explicit allergen decisions before saving.

Check the saved record and any affected dishes

Open the ingredient details and confirm the name, source notes, and separate Contains/May contain lists. For an existing record, use Review and save. If dishes are affected, inspect the confirmation and choose Save and update dishes.

If saving is blocked, check the ingredient name and every unreviewed allergen. A compound recipe also needs valid components. None means no flag in the entered information; it does not certify that a dish is suitable for a guest.

Current shared-library entries may show Allergen review required. Review them against your actual product before use. Do not treat the suggestions as a preverified supplier database. Use the Needs review filter to return to unfinished ingredient records.

Keep going

Understand allergen flags and review status

Learn the difference between Contains, May contain, None, and an unfinished review.

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Build a house recipe from other ingredients

Create a reusable compound ingredient for sauces, doughs, or other recipes and inspect inherited flags.

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Update a supplier product or recipe

Change the correct shared record, review its impact, and refresh the materials your team uses.

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Add or edit a dish

Create a Dishcard with the real recipe, clear notes, and a reviewed allergen preview.

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Reviewed against the current Dishcard app. Screenshots use sample restaurant data.

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