The FoodBase blog
Guides, tutorials and honest notes on building food apps — from the team feeding 6.1M products through one API.
From Photo to Food Data: The Vision Endpoints
Decode barcodes, identify products, read nutrition labels, and analyze meals — all from a single photo, with one multipart request.
AI Product Analysis: Summaries Your Users Can Actually Read
Turn raw label data into a plain-language summary with highlights, warnings, diet compatibility and processing level — for catalog products or your own data.
Getting Started with FoodBase
Create your account, generate an API key, and make your first request in under 5 minutes.
Understanding the Nutrition Data
A deep dive into our data sources, nutrient coverage, and how to work with 40+ nutrients per product.
Build a Calorie Tracker with FoodBase
Step-by-step tutorial for building a simple calorie tracking app using JavaScript and the FoodBase API.
Food Database APIs in 2026: A Developer's Comparison
Comparing Nutritionix, Spoonacular, Edamam, FatSecret, Open Food Facts, Chomp, USDA FoodData Central and FoodBase — pricing, coverage, and features.
Adding Barcode Scanning to Your App
How to integrate barcode scanning with FoodBase to instantly look up product nutrition data.