Build a recipe app — 100 owned recipes, USDA nutrition data, meal planning
Recipe apps live or die on content rights. The APlicious /recipes namespace has 100 originally-authored recipes across 20 world cuisines — fully owned, zero licensing risk. Pair it with /food for USDA nutrient data on 13,500+ ingredients.
Recipe search
Search by keyword, cuisine, or diet tag:
Full recipe detail
Load a recipe's complete ingredients list, step-by-step instructions, and nutrition estimates:
Random recipe for the day
Drive a 'Recipe of the Day' feature with a single call:
Ingredient nutrition lookup
Pair /recipes with /food to show full USDA nutrient panels for each ingredient:
Cuisine browser
Drive a cuisine-filtered browse page from the cuisines list — always in sync with your content:
Why APlicious?
Because /recipes is fully owned content, there are no per-call licensing fees, no copyright exposure, and no upstream takedowns. Pair with /wellness for calorie-aware meal planning in one plan.
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