APIs and Other Tools

APIs

• The ESHA Nutrition Database API provides several APIs including an API that returns a JSON representation of the specified food, one that returns all known nutrients, one that returns all known units, one that supports food search and another one for food recommendation.

• The Edamam APIs including a Nutrition Analysis, Food Database, and Recipe Search API (search over 2.3 million recipes by diets, calories and nutrient ranges).

• Spoonacular offers a variety of widgets that allow you to work with food data, including an ingredient visualizer widget which lets you show a recipe‘s ingredient list in a visually appealing way, price visualizer widget which lets you show the total estimated cost for a recipe, a taste visualizer widget which lets you display the taste distribution of an ingredient or an entire recipe, a nutrition visualizer widget which lets you display macro and micro nutrients of a recipe, and an equipment visualizer widget which lets you show the tools required to make recipe.

Scrapers

• Recipe scrapers: https://github.com/hhursev/recipe-scrapers

• Recipe box scrapers which supports three websites in Python 3: Foodnetwork.com, Epicurious.com, and Allrecipes.com; see also https://eightportions.com/datasets/Recipes/

Other tools and sources

• https://recipescape.kixlab.org/

• NYT ingredient phrase tagger: https://github.com/NYTimes/ingredient-phrase-tagger

• Linked Data in Agrifood