Add ingredients to a recipe costing

Ingredients are added to dish and preparation recipe costings. See how to create a recipe costing.

⚠️ Note: You need the editar ingredientes permission to do this.

1. Open the dish/preparation where you want to add the ingredient.

2. Go to the "Ingredients" tab.

3. Click "Add ingredient"

4. By default, the option is to add products. To add a preparation, select that option.

5. Click the search field, type the name of the product/preparation, and select it.

• If the product does not already have the purchase format to base unit conversion set up, you will need to do it then. See how to convert it

6. Enter the net quantity used for the ingredient. If needed, you can change the unit of measure in the dropdown, for example from kg to g.

7. Enter the waste (the part of the product that is discarded). You can enter it as a percentage (%) or as an absolute amount by selecting it in the field. See our waste guide to find the waste percentage or grams for all foods.

💡 Note: The gross quantity and the cost will be calculated automatically.

8. Click "Add ingredient"

📌 Related articles:

• Convert ingredients to base unit (Kg, L or units) for recipe costings → How to convert a product's purchase format into a base unit of measure when you use it as an ingredient in a recipe costing.
• How to group products → We show you how to combine similar products so you can analyze purchases together.
• Set or edit the reference price → We explain how to define the agreed price with the supplier or the expected price, and how to tell when the purchase price is higher.

Updated on: 23/04/2026