Elevate Your App with the Largest Global Food and Nutrition API

The fatsecret Platform API provides access to more than 56 unique, stand-alone and truly localized country data sets, please see full list here. All country data sets have a default language and are fully language agnostic meaning they can be returned in any of the currently 24 supported languages.

The fatsecret Platform API provides access to the largest source of verified accurate food and nutrition data globally, available in 24 languages and in excess of 56 countries. There are more than 1.9 million unique foods and products. The data includes calories, macro nutrients, micro nutrients (where available) as well as allergen information, dietary preferences, food images, food categories and multiple serving options for most foods, please find more information here.

Moreover, the API provides access to an exhaustive UPC / EAN food product barcode database with global barcode coverage exceeding 90%.

Additionally, the API provides access to more than 17,000 unique, high quality curated, international recipes including images, cooking directions, ingredients and nutritional profile that can be returned on a per-country basis, please see here.

The API provides access to more than 17,000 unique, high quality curated, international recipes including images, cooking directions, ingredients and nutritional profile that can be returned on a per-country basis, please see here.

We provide testing and evaluation through our Basic fatsecret Platform API which is free. Please register here to get started. If you would like to test or evaluate any Premier capabilities or localization to supported countries, please get in touch with us.

Our team are nutrition experts, made up of nutritionists, dietitians, data and content moderators utilizing multiple sources to curate and update the databases of generic foods, branded, supermarket and restaurant products and their associated servings and nutritional information. These include official local and national government publications and reference materials, manufacturer/brand/restaurant submitted products via fatsecret Brand Tools, publicly available information and verified user contributed data.

Thousands of updates to datasets occur daily with our team utilizing systematic processes for reviewing and verifying information on a daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly basis with a view to keeping the databases as up to date, accurate and relevant as possible. No data is accessible through the API until it is reviewed and verified to ensure it satisfies high fidelity criteria which are applied on a continual basis to all items to maintain the accuracy of the data.

As part of fatsecret Platform API Premier, we work with many of the largest multinational organizations and companies that operate in highly regulated health, medical, pharma and related fields and as part of commercial arrangements provide professional Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with guaranteed uptime, minimum customer support response times as well as service level credits.

We also provide technical support via email, phone and video chat for all our Premier clients.

Please get in touch with any questions.

Yes, full 3-legged OAuth enables you to provide your application to users who are members of fatsecret (who are using one of our websites or our mobile app). This facility allows users to approve your application to act on their behalf without sharing their fatsecret account credentials with you. Essentially fatsecret members can consent to share their data with your application. You can use this mechanism to attain a valid access token for a profile that is directly linked to a user account on fatsecret (instead of creating your own profiles for users), so you can build whatever applications and services you wish for existing fatsecret members.

We have worked with hundreds of corporate clients globally and Premier customers include Amazon, Fitbit, LifeScan, Medtronic, Nestlé, Samsung and Welldoc together with government and non-profit entities that trust and rely on us to deliver an unparalleled nutrition experience for their customers.

You can register for free here and start testing our API today. If you need access to any of our Premier features or localized data sets, please get in touch with us.

The fatsecret Platform API provides access to a large number of data points on each food item including high quality food images (available as .png files in 3 sizes), allergen information across 10 allergens (Egg, Fish, Gluten, Lactose, Milk, Nuts, Peanuts, Sesame, Shellfish, Soy) as well as dietary preferences to identify whether a food is vegan or vegetarian.

These capabilities are currently available for all generic foods globally and will be added for branded foods over time.

The fatsecret Platform API provides advanced image recognition capabilities to analyze photos and deliver accurate nutritional information. The API performs object detection, estimates serving sizes and weights and links identified food items to verified entries from 56 country specific nutrition datasets across any of our 24 supported languages. This functionality supports a wide range of food types, including generic foods, composite dishes, recipes and branded or packaged products delivering comprehensive nutrition analysis for each.

The fatsecret Platform API offers advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities in our 24 supported languages. Whether you’re passing text or voice input, the API can intelligently process it to estimate serving sizes, calculate weights and associate the input with verified food items from our extensive database, which includes nutrition data from 56 countries.