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.
