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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.

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GET /v1/foods/{id}

curl -H "X-API-Key: food_•••" \
  "https://foodbase.dev/v1/foods/62ea12b8-b260-c288-5c38-3a4906f5d6dd"

{
  "id": "62ea12b8-b260-c288-5c38-3a4906f5d6dd",
  "name_default": "Coca-Cola",
  "brand": "Coca-Cola",
  "category": "Beverages",
  "ingredients_default": "Carbonated water, sugar, ...",
  "allergens": [],
  "nutriscore": "e",
  "nova_group": 4,
  "image_url": "https://images..."
}

Prefer to click around? Try the product explorer or the photo playground.

What you get back

`Identity`

id, barcode, source, name, brand, category.

`Ingredients`

Full ingredient text plus structured allergens and traces.

`Scores`

Nutri-Score, NOVA group, and Eco-Score where available.

`Media & locale`

Product image URL and multilingual names.

`One schema`

Every product normalized into one consistent shape.

Included on the free plan — 100 requests/day, no credit card required. See plans →

Build with it

Product detail pages

Render a rich food page from one canonical record.

Data enrichment pipelines

Hydrate your catalog with ingredients, allergens, and scores.

Research & analytics

Work with a clean, normalized view across two public datasets.

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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.

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Nutrition data

Go beyond the headline macros. Pull a detailed breakdown of 40+ nutrients per product — energy, protein, carbs, fats, sugars, fiber, sodium, vitamins, and minerals — all per 100g, for any food by ID.

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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.

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Start building with the Food Database API

Free to start. No credit card required.

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