Food Categories
Browse every food category with its product count — the backbone for filters, facets, and navigation. Paginated JSON over the full catalog, served from a precomputed view so it stays fast.
curl -H "X-API-Key: food_•••" \
"https://foodbase.dev/v1/categories"
{
"data": [
{ "category": "Beverages", "product_count": 142853 },
{ "category": "Snacks", "product_count": 98211 },
{ "category": "Dairy", "product_count": 76540 }
],
"total": 306609
}Prefer to click around? Try the product explorer or the photo playground.
What you get back
category
The category name.
product_count
How many products fall under it.
total
Number of distinct categories.
Filter-ready
Combine with search to scope results by category.
Included on the free plan — 100 requests/day, no credit card required. See plans →
Build with it
Filters & facets
Render category navigation with live product counts.
Catalog overviews
Show users the shape of the dataset before they search.
Analytics dashboards
Chart how products distribute across categories.
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Food Search
Full-text search across 6.1 million food products by name, brand, or category — relevance-ranked, paginated, and fast. Search in any language the label was printed in (Cyrillic included), and pass lang=en|fr|es|de|it|bg for localized names, categories and allergens. One GET request returns clean JSON your app can render immediately.
Learn more →Food Database
A single source for 6.1 million foods. Fetch a complete product record by ID — name, brand, ingredients, allergens, Nutri-Score, NOVA group, images, and more.
Learn more →Start building with the Food Categories API
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