How to Best Apply Yield Adjustments

When using two or more Yield Adjustments within a single Recipe in Genesis R&D Foods, the recommended best practice is to emulate the stages of the recipe in the same manner you would within the kitchen. Below we have outlined a step-by-step example of what this process would look like.

Example: A Baked Cookie With Filling

As an example, let’s say you are making a cookie with a filling. In this example, the cookie dough is mixed and run through the machinery before being baked. The filling is not cooked, so there is no need to apply any yield adjustments to that recipe.

To ensure accurate nutrient calculations when applying the yield adjustments, you would create your recipe as follows:

Step 1: Create Recipe 1 (Cookie Base + Processing Loss)

Create a new Recipe ("Cookie Dough") containing its ingredients. Given this cookie has some material loss of ingredients due to the machinery, you may apply a Processing Loss in Yield Adjustments to this Recipe.

 
Step 2: Create Recipe 2 (Cookie Base + baking/Moisture Loss)

Create a new Recipe ("Cookie Base"). In this step, you will add the Cookie Dough Recipe from Step 1 as the only ingredient. Next, you will use the Moisture Loss (or Target) Yield Adjustment Function, to best reflect the moisture loss from baking the dough.

Step 3: Create Recipe 3 (Filling)
Create a new Recipe ("Apple Filling") containing the ingredients for the filling. 
 

Step 4: Create Recipe 4 (Final Cookie)
Create your final Recipe ("Apple Filled Cookies"). In this step, you will add the Cookie Base Recipe from Step 2 and the Filling Recipe from Step 3.

Step 5: Verify Yield Adjustments

Double-check that the values you input reflect the real-world conditions accurately. You can also use the Spreadsheet Report to verify the subrecipe's total contribution to the final recipe accounts for the yield adjustment(s) applied earlier in the process.