name: NutrientsDB
description: >-
  A curated global food-composition dataset of roughly 2.9 million food entries across 86 normalized nutrient fields,
  deduplicated across 180+ countries and sold under a one-time license as a downloadable file for local use rather than
  as a hosted, metered API. Every nutrient value is expressed per 100 g of food, with the unit encoded as a suffix on
  the field name, and a null value means the source did not report that nutrient rather than that the value is zero.
  NutrientsDB fronts the licensed dataset with a free, keyless, read-only Sample API that exposes a public 1,000-food
  slice carrying the identical 86-field schema, so developers, researchers, and AI builders can inspect the shape and
  density of the data before licensing it. The same sample is mirrored as plain JSON on GitHub and Hugging Face.
image: https://nutrientsdb.com/og-image.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nutrientsdb/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-08-02'
modified: '2026-08-09'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
  - nutrition
  - food
  - nutrients
  - food-composition
  - data
  - search
  - sample-data
  - dataset
  - ai-builders
  - reference-data
  - open-data
  - keyless-api
apis:
- aid: nutrientsdb:nutrientsdb-foods-api
  name: NutrientsDB Foods API
  description: The Foods API from NutrientsDB — 1 operation(s) for foods.
  humanURL: https://www.nutrientsdb.com/api/docs
  baseURL: https://www.nutrientsdb.com/api
  tags:
  - Foods
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/nutrientsdb-foods-api-openapi.yml
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/57076285/2sBY4TqJ5d
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.nutrientsdb.com/api/docs
  - type: Examples
    url: examples/_index.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/nutrientsdb-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/nutrientsdb-data-model.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/nutrientsdb-food.json
  - type: Arazzo
    url: arazzo/nutrientsdb-search-then-lookup.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Colinear Studio
    url: https://github.com/colinearstudio
generated:
  by: apis.io/add
  model: claude-opus-4-8
  confidence: 80
  at: '2026-08-02T16:14:49.198Z'
common:
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/nutrientsdb-mcp.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/nutrientsdb-sample-api-overlay.yaml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/nutrientsdb-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/nutrientsdb-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/nutrientsdb-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/nutrientsdb-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/nutrientsdb-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/nutrientsdb-conformance.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/nutrientsdb-nutrient-schema.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/nutrientsdb-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.nutrientsdb.com/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.nutrientsdb.com/api/docs
- type: Postman
  url: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/57076285/2sBY4TqJ5d
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/colinearstudio
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.nutrientsdb.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://www.nutrientsdb.com/contact
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.nutrientsdb.com/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.nutrientsdb.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.nutrientsdb.com/privacy
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-09'
  status: enriched
  pass: local-v1
  artifacts_added: 28