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

Other tools and sources