Create Custom Recipes

Foodzilla lets you create recipes with detailed ingredients, cooking instructions, labels, images, and automatic nutrition analysis.

Start a New Recipe

1. Go to Recipes

2. Click New Recipe

   Add the recipe details

   The interface has two main columns:

   • Left Column: Upload a photo of the recipe, customize preparation time, serving size, cooking instructions, ingredients, and quantities.
   • Right Column: Preview the total nutritional information as you add ingredients and adjust their quantities. The nutrition panel updates automatically as ingredients and quantities are added.
3. Click Save Recipe when finished

Adding Ingredients

Open the Ingredients tab and choose how you want to enter the recipe.

1. Use Foodzilla Data

Select Use Foodzilla Data, then click Add Ingredients.

You can:

1. Search for an ingredient
2. Select one or more matching foods
3. Adjust the quantity and measurement
4. Click Add Ingredients

Foodzilla uses the selected food data to calculate the recipe’s calories, macros, vitamins, and minerals.

Available measurements depend on the selected ingredient and may include grams, ounces, cups, tablespoons, or other common serving sizes.

2. Use Your Own Data

Select Use My Own Data when you want to enter your own ingredient and nutrition information instead of using a Foodzilla database item.

3. Bulk Add Ingredients

Use Bulk Add to enter several ingredients at once.

1. Click Bulk Add
2. Type or paste one ingredient per line
3. Include the quantity and unit where possible
4. Click Match Ingredients
5. Review the matched foods and measurements
6. Confirm the ingredients you want to add

For example:

1 cup rolled oats  

2 tbsp peanut butter  

1 banana  

200 g Greek yoghurt  

Foodzilla automatically matches each line with an item from the food database and imports the available nutrition information.

Including clear quantities and units gives you more accurate matches.

Adding Cooking Instructions

Open the Cooking Method tab.

You can:

• Click Add Step to enter instructions manually

• Drag steps to change their order

• Remove steps you no longer need

• Click Auto Generate to create cooking steps from the ingredients

You can also add recipe tips, serving suggestions, preparation advice, or variations.

Adding Diet, Health, and Custom Labels

Open the Labels & Author tab.

You can add:

• Health Labels: Labels related to health needs or recipe characteristics.
• Diet Labels: Labels such as vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, or other dietary categories.

• Custom Labels: Create your own labels for organising and finding recipes.

  You can also click Auto Suggest Labels to generate relevant labels based on the recipe.

Under Recipe Author Details, you can add the original author or website when attribution is required.

Review the Nutrition Information

The nutrition panel appears beside the recipe editor and updates as you make changes.

You can switch between:

• One Serving

• All Servings

The panel displays energy, macros, minerals, vitamins, and percentage daily intake values.

Finalizing the Recipe

1. Create the Recipe:
   • Click the "Save Recipe" button.
   • The recipe will appear under My Recipes, where you can edit it, add it to meal plans, organise it into collections, or share it with clients.

Troubleshooting

• If you encounter a red banner error, contact our team through the chat bubble for assistance.
• Avoid refreshing the page while creating a recipe to prevent loss of changes.
• Successfully created recipes will be saved in the "My Recipes" section and you will see a green success banner.