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Spoonacular Food API allows access to large database of ingredients, recipes, products, etc. 

Spoonacular API provide solutions to make any food-related vision a reality.

Here are some of the features: 

- Find recipes to use ingredients you already have ("what's in your fridge" search)
-  Find recipes based on nutritional requirements
-  Extract recipes from any website
-  Classify a recipe's type or cuisine
-  Generate an entire meal plan
-  Generate shopping lists
-  UPC lookup of American grocery products
-  Detect food in text (NER)
-  Food trivia and jokes
-  Create a chatbot

Spoonacular Food API

The Nutrition Analysis API uses Natural Language Processing and semantically structured data.

**Nutrition Analysis API**
_Copy/paste any food recipe and learn its nutrition details in under a second_

This API covers all key use cases related to recipe and food text natural language processing and nutrition analysis. The API employs NLP (Natural Language Processing) which allows for extraction of food entities from unstructured text.

- **Covered Use Cases**
-- Full analysis of food recipes in real time – entity extraction, measure and quantity extraction with computation of the applicable nutrition for the recipe and applicable health and diet labels. Finally, it adjusts quantity for certain ingredients to account for the cooking process. For example, it calculates oil absorption for fried recipes, excludes solids from stock and broth recipes, calculates marinate absorption for marinates and much more.
-- Extraction of food entities with measures and quantities from unstructured text.
-- Usage in chatbots transcribing natural speech to text.

**Key features**

- **Full recipe nutrition analysis**
Submit the full text of any recipe or ingredient list. Edamam will extract the full nutrition and ingredient data from the text. No more need to spend hours entering your recipes line by line. The nutrition analysis takes less than a second!

- **Text Analysis**
Our Natural Language Processing engine allows for the extraction of food named entities from text. We also allow combined entity extraction with food database search. Once a text is submitted and entities are extracted our database is searched for additional food matches to the extracted entities.

- **Structured data and nutrition data output**
Edamam returns detailed information for each ingredient line for the Recipe Analysis and for each text string for the Text Analysis. You can get information for the entire recipe as a whole or broken down automatically for each ingredient.
For each food (flour, eggs, flour etc.), Edamam returns data for calories, fats, carbohydrates, protein, cholesterol, sodium, etc. for a total of 28 macro and micronutrients.
All food nutrient data is enriched with diet, allergy and health labeling, as calculated by Edamam based on the food's ingredients. Vegan, Paleo, Gluten Free, Low-Sodium, and Dairy Free are some of the 90+ claims generated automatically.

- **Data Caching**
The terms of use of the Edamam Data are covered in the API Terms of Use and do not permit data caching unless explicitly permitted by Edamam. The data caching described here does not constitute permission to copy or reuse the Edamam data.
Data caching is allowed for some paid API plans when explicitly stated by the plan’s terms. API customers can cache only the four basic macro nutrient data points - protein, total fat, net carbs, and calories. Saved data can be used only in the end user’s account, behind a password. The caching as described here does not allow customers to build a copy of the Edamam data to be reused in any form or to build a food search. The API still provides full nutrient data which can be displayed on call without caching and customers can only cache the nutrients described above. Active subscription to an eligible plan is required as long as the data is used as well as attribution to Edamam.

- **Low-cost solution**
Edamam provides free recipe nutrition analysis and text analysis with its basic plan for developers, startups and non-profits alike.
Enterprise customers are charged a very low monthly licensing fee for recipe analysis based on usage. Custom packages are also available.



Nutrition Analysis API

Get free access to a database with close to 900,000 foods and over 680,000 unique UPC codes

**Food Database API**
_Get free access to a database with close to 900,000 foods and over 680,000 unique UPC codes_

Food Database API allows you to search for nutrition and diet information within our Food Database.

**Covered Use Cases**

- Search for food by keyword, food name or UPC/Barcode
- Sourcing of nutrition facts for a given food, including: macro and micro nutrients, allergen labels, lifestyle and health labels
- Search for food by given nutrient quantity for 28 nutrients
- Search for foods within a given brand
- With the built-in food-logging context it allows for NLP requests for chatbots and natural language calorie counters

Here are some of the core features of Food Database API:

- **The Food API uses Natural Language Processing and semantically structured data.**
Each search string you input in the API goes through Edamam's proprietary natural language analysis engine. Food entities are found and quantities are attached to them when available.
In Food Logging mode the API allows for development of food logging chatbots. All text is analyzed and quantities of the food are estimated on the fly.
With Edamam's Food Database API you can use the native iOS or Android voice recognition for one click data entry. No more drop downs and search boxes are required.

- **Food database**
Edamam provides access to a food and grocery database with close to 900,000 basic foods, restaurant items and consumer packaged foods
The foods in the Food API can be filtered by Diet and health filters generated by Edamam. All food database data is enriched with diet, allergy and nutrition labeling, as calculated by Edamam based on the food's ingredients. Peanut Free, Shellfish Free, Gluten Free, Vegan, and Vegetarian are some of the 70+ claims generated automatically.
For basic foods from the food database (flour, eggs, flour etc.), Edamam returns data for calories, fats, carbohydrates, protein, cholesterol, sodium, etc. for a total of 28 nutrients. For UPC foods and fast foods data is return as listed on their nutrition label

- **Data Caching**
The terms of use of the Edamam Data are covered in the API Terms of Use and do not permit data caching unless explicitly permitted by Edamam. The data caching described here does not constitute permission to copy or reuse the Edamam data.
Data caching is allowed for some paid API plans when explicitly stated by plan’s terms. API customers can cache only the four basic macro nutrient datapoints - protein, total fat, net carbs and calories as well as the fooId, food label and food image. Saved data can be used only in the end user’s account, behind a password. The caching as described here does not allow API subscribers to build a copy of the Edamam data to be reused in any form or to build a food search. The API still provides full nutrient data which can be displayed on call without caching and customers can only cache the nutrients and data elements described above. Active subscription to an eligible plan is required as long as the data is used

- **UPC or Barcode search**
The Food Database API provides access to over 615,000 unique UPC codes.

- **Low-cost solution**
Edamam provides free Food API access with its basic plan for developers, startups and non-profits alike.
Enterprise customers are charged a very low monthly and per call fee based on usage. Custom packages are also available.



Food Database API

Search over 2.3 million recipes by diets, calories and nutrient ranges

**Recipe Search API Documentation**
_Recipe Search API allows you to search through millions of web recipes and integrate this information into your mobile or web applications._

Here are some of the core **features** of Recipe Search API:

- **Search over 2.3 million recipes in English**
Search our large recipe database. We add new sites and recipes continuously.

- **500+ top web recipe sources**
Our search algorithm returns the most relevant recipes from the most popular and best recipes sources on the web. We order recipes by their cookability and quality, so your customer can always count on getting the best recipes!

- **Semantically organized database**
The recipes in our database are normalized and can be filtered in the search by calorie and diet preferences.

- **Full nutrition for each recipe**
We have the most accurate automated nutrition analysis on the web powered by our proprietary Natural Language Processing (NLP) engine. Customers get detailed nutrition breakdown of each recipe with 25+ nutrients and appropriateness for all major diets.

- **Filter by calories, diet or allergy restrictions**
Edamam has developed over 80 diet and health filters for your customers to use. Now you can develop applications for virtually any popular diet or major health condition.

- **Data Caching**
The terms of use of the Edamam Data are covered in the API Terms of Use and do not permit data caching unless explicitly permitted by Edamam. The data caching described here does not constitute permission to copy or reuse the Edamam data.
Data caching is allowed for some paid API plans when explicitly stated by plan’s terms. API subscribers can cache only the four basic macro nutrient datapoints - protein, total fat, net carbs and calories as well as the recipe URI, recipe title and recipe image. Saved data can be used only in the end user's account, behind a password. The caching as described here does not allow API subscribers to build a copy of the Edamam data to be reused in any form or to build a recipe search. The API still provides full nutrient data which can be displayed on call without caching and API subscribers can only cache the nutrients and data elements described above. Active subscription to an eligible plan is required as long as the data is used.

- **Chronic Conditions Tagging and Filtering**
Edamam offers the ability to search our database of 2.3 million recipes based on their appropriateness to over 200+ chronic conditions. Recipes are ranked for each chronic condition from very beneficial to very detrimental for the specific condition. You can search, for example, for recipes that are good or excellent for a particular condition (e.g., Type 2 Diabetes, kidney disease, hypertension). See a full list of all 200+ chronic conditions covered by Edamam’s service.



Recipe Search API

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The Food and Grocery Database API helps you find food entities and attaches quantities to them when available.

#### Food Database
Edamam provides access to a food and grocery database with close to 900,000 basic foods, restaurant items and consumer packaged foods

#### All nutritional values
The foods in the Food API can be filtered by Diet and health filters generated by Edamam. All food database data is enriched with diet, allergy and nutrition labeling, as calculated by Edamam based on the food’s ingredients. Peanut Free, Shellfish Free, Gluten Free, Vegan, and Vegetarian are some of the 70+ claims generated automatically.

#### Covered Use Cases
- Search for food by keyword, food name or UPC/Barcode.
- Sourcing of nutrition facts for a given food, including: macro and micro nutrients, allergen labels, lifestyle and health labels.
- Search for food by given nutrient quantity for 28 nutrients.
- Search for foods within a given brand.
- With the built-in food-logging context it allows for NLP requests for chatbots and natural language calorie counters.

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