/food namespace · APlicious

Food Database API — USDA-sourced nutrient data, search and lookup

The /food namespace's data is ingested from USDA FoodData Central (public domain) into our own database — search and full nutrient lookup with zero third-party calls at runtime.

13,500+foods in owned database

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GET /api/v1/food/search

const res = await fetch(
  'https://aplicious.com/api/v1/food/search?query=banana&limit=5',
  { headers: { 'X-API-Key': 'lapi_live_••••' } }
);
const { data } = await res.json();
// { results: [{ name: "Banana, raw", calories: 89, protein_g: 1.1, carbs_g: 22.8 }] }

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What's included in /food

13,500+ owned foods

Ingested from USDA FoodData Central, a public-domain government dataset — no scraping, no licensing ambiguity.

Full nutrient profiles

Complete macro and micronutrient data per food item, not just calories.

Fast search

Search by food name against the owned database — no upstream API call, no rate limit to wait on.

No runtime third-party dependency

Because the data lives in our own database, lookups never fail due to an external API outage.

Pairs with /nutrition

Combine food search with the /nutrition namespace's macro and calorie-goal calculators under the same key.

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Frequently asked questions

Is the food data scraped?

No — ingested from USDA FoodData Central, a public-domain government dataset, directly into our own database.

Does this require a live third-party API key?

No — search and lookup are served entirely from our own owned database.

How is this different from /nutrition?

/food is the raw food/nutrient database. /nutrition adds calculators (macro splits, calorie goals) on top of related data.

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