USDA FoodData Central API (FDC-API)
All the Data to Power Nutrition Solutions
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This API is best for leveraging food and nutrition data for digital applications.
Developers should use the FDC-API to access food nutrition data to be used in their apps. This data is pulled from the USDA database, making it an authoritative and reliable source of information. It is easily accessible through a RESTful API, allowing it to be easily and quickly incorporated into applications, and is highly compatible. It can be used by developers and organizations for access to food composition data in order to answer questions about the nutrition of food products, ingredients and recipes.
Key features
- FDC-API provides easy to use access to the USDA food composition databases plus Food Industries Codes and Natural Ingredient Resource data for application developers. It is RESTful and follows open standards to make it compatible with apps of all types
Potential use cases
- eCommerce Solutions: Utilize FDC-API to power eCommerce solutions where customers can search for healthy food items and look into their nutritional content in the product detail page.
- Nutrition Apps: Develop an app or web app where users can search for foods and see their nutrition data
- Food Supply Chain Solutions.: Implement food supply chain solutions to track the nutritional content of food products across the production and distribution chain.
The FDC-API has been a great resource for our app. It allows us to provide users with reliable nutrition data on the food they are consuming. It also offers a comprehensive API, which makes it easy to integrate into our product.
Related Technologies
- USDA foodAPI
- International Food Composition Resources API
- Grocery API