generated: '2026-08-04'
method: derived
status: candidate
source: openapi/food-info-openapi.json
description: CANDIDATE MCP tool surface derived from the eight operations in the published OpenAPI. Food
  Info does NOT operate an MCP server — this is an API Evangelist proposal showing what one would look
  like, not a provider claim. Every tool below maps 1:1 to a real operationId and inherits that operation's
  parameters as its input schema.
verified: '2026-08-04'
server:
  name: food-info
  transport: http
  url: null
  operated_by: null
probe:
  date: '2026-08-04'
  targets:
  - url: https://api.food-info.org/mcp
    status: 403
    note: Cloudflare managed challenge on every non-API path of this host; no MCP endpoint advertised.
  - url: https://food-info.org/llms.txt
    status: 200
    note: The provider's own site index lists tools, guides, studies and the developer API — and no MCP
      server. Treated as authoritative that none is published.
  registries_checked:
  - npm @modelcontextprotocol
  - modelcontextprotocol servers list
  - mcp registry
  result: none
suitability:
  note: 'This API is an unusually clean MCP fit: read-only, no side effects, integer-id addressing, an
    idempotent surface, and operationIds the provider deliberately named for how they read as a tool call.
    The only auth is a single header key, so a server-side MCP wrapper needs no OAuth dance.'
tools:
- name: list_nutrients
  description: List the nutrient catalogue (id, name, unit, category) to discover nutrientId values.
  source_operation: openapi/food-info-openapi.json#listNutrients
  read_only: true
- name: search_foods
  description: Search reference foods by name (case-insensitive substring), optionally region-weighted.
  source_operation: openapi/food-info-openapi.json#searchFoods
  read_only: true
- name: get_food
  description: Look up a single food by FoodData Central id.
  source_operation: openapi/food-info-openapi.json#getFood
  read_only: true
- name: get_food_nutrient_panel
  description: Full nutrient panel for a food — per-100 g and per-serving amounts plus % reference intake.
  source_operation: openapi/food-info-openapi.json#getFoodNutrientPanel
  read_only: true
- name: list_top_foods_by_nutrient
  description: Reverse nutrient search — reference foods richest in a nutrient, per 100 g.
  source_operation: openapi/food-info-openapi.json#listTopFoodsByNutrient
  read_only: true
- name: list_bottom_foods_by_nutrient
  description: Reverse nutrient search — reference foods lowest in a nutrient, per 100 g.
  source_operation: openapi/food-info-openapi.json#listBottomFoodsByNutrient
  read_only: true
- name: parse_recipe_ingredients
  description: Parse raw ingredient lines into structured quantity/unit/food. No catalogue match.
  source_operation: openapi/food-info-openapi.json#parseRecipeIngredients
  read_only: true
- name: analyze_recipe_nutrition
  description: Analyse a recipe — per-line resolution, per-serving and per-100 g nutrition, source attribution
    and review flags.
  source_operation: openapi/food-info-openapi.json#analyzeRecipeNutrition
  read_only: true
crosswalk: mcp/food-info-tool-crosswalk.yml
deployment:
  mode: none
  verified: derived
  tools: 8
  checked: '2026-08-12'
  source: catalog MCP census