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title: Allergens
description: This guide shows you how to manage the allergens tracked in your KC Lite. Watch the short video below for a step-by-step walkthrough of how to customise your allergen list, merge duplicates, and assign allergens to products manually.
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# Allergens

## This guide shows you how to manage the allergens tracked in your KC Lite. Watch the short video below for a step-by-step walkthrough of how to customise your allergen list, merge duplicates, and assign allergens to products manually.

 

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#### What You’ll Learn

- How to access your allergen settings
- How to activate or deactivate allergens in your system
- How to merge duplicate or custom allergens
- How to manually assign allergens to ingredients and products

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#### Why This Matters

Keeping your allergen data accurate and up to date is vital for both customer safety and legal compliance. In Kitchen CUT Lite, allergen visibility is streamlined — so making sure your product-level data is correct will help you confidently generate compliant recipes and reports.

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#### After Watching, You Should Be Able To:

✅ Activate or deactivate allergens in your business  
✅ Merge unwanted duplicates or similar allergens  
✅ Assign allergens to your products from within the product record

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#### 💡 Best Practices

- Only activate allergens that are relevant to your kitchen — keep the list focused.
- Use the **merge** function to tidy up custom or duplicated allergen entries
- Always assign allergens at the **product level** — these will automatically flow into your sub-recipes and recipes
- Ensure all core allergens are assigned before publishing or costing recipes
- Review allergen data after importing new products via bulk import

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