Food Calorie API
Ship meal tracking, macro logging, and barcode scan features faster with our nutrition API, food database API, and verified calorie data built for production health apps.
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8.8/10 popularity
625 ms avg latency
60% success rate
7 endpoints
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Food Calorie API endpoints
| Method | Endpoint | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Food data | ||
| GET |
suggestFoods /api/v1/search/suggest |
Lightweight autocomplete for search boxes and meal-logging UIs. |
| GET |
getFood /api/v1/foods/{food_id} |
Full nutrient, serving and barcode data for a single food id (from Search foods / Suggest). |
| GET |
barcodeLookup /api/v1/search/barcode/{upc} |
Resolve a UPC/EAN to product and nutrition data. Local database first, then Open Food Facts. |
| GET |
searchFoods /api/v1/search/foods |
Search the food catalog by name or brand. Returns per-100g macros, a full nutrients array and a computed meal object. Ranked: exact phrase > all words > most words > any word. |
| Calculators | ||
| GET |
calcPortion /api/v1/calc/portion |
Scale a food's nutrition to an arbitrary gram amount. |
| POST |
calcRecipe /api/v1/calc/recipe |
Aggregate total and per-serving nutrition for a list of ingredients (food_id + grams). |
| GET |
calcMacros /api/v1/calc/macros |
BMR, TDEE and daily macro targets from body stats using the Mifflin-St Jeor formula. |
Food Calorie API pricing
| Plan | Price | Rate limit | Quotas |
|---|---|---|---|
| BASIC | Free | 2 / second |
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| PRO | $9.99 / month | 8 / second |
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| ULTRA | $49.99 / month | 20 / second |
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| MEGA | $199.99 / month | 40 / second |
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