The API that tastes better.
Build meal planners, nutrition apps, and recipe search. One API, real nutrition data, white-label ready.
No credit card required · 10,000 requests / month free
Not just recipes. An entire food platform.
AI-powered features that let you build meal planning apps, nutrition trackers, and smart grocery lists, all from one API.
AI Meal Planner
Generate full weekly meal plans that respect calorie targets, dietary restrictions, and cuisine preferences. Powered by AI.
Smart Shopping Lists
Auto-generate grocery lists from any recipe or meal plan. Ingredients grouped by aisle with smart quantity consolidation.
Semantic Search
Search by meaning, not keywords. "high protein vegan lunch" returns exactly what you'd expect. Vector-powered understanding.
Food Recognition
Point a camera at any dish and get the recipe, nutrition, and allergens back. Photo to full data in under 3 seconds.
Recipe Analysis
Paste any recipe URL or ingredient list and get complete nutrition breakdown, allergen detection, and NutriMetric grade.
AI Beverage Pairing
AI sommelier pairs any dish with wine, beer, cocktails, spirits, and culturally-authentic non-alcoholic drinks. Specific names, not generic suggestions.
Ingredient Intelligence
Smart substitutions, autocomplete, unit conversion, food group browsing, and batch nutrition lookup for any ingredient.
Taste Profile
Every recipe gets a flavor fingerprint: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami, and spice levels mapped so you can filter and match by taste.
Allergen Detection
EU-14 compliant allergen scanning on every recipe. Flags direct allergens and traces automatically from the ingredient graph, aligned to EU Regulation 1169/2011.
Don't just trust us.
Test the data yourself.
Copy the call, drop in your key, and inspect the full JSON: recipes, calculated nutrition, EU allergens and NutriMetric grades. Or run it live in the Test Kitchen. No credit card required.
{
"recipes": [
{
"title": "Jollof Rice",
"cuisine": "Nigerian",
"dish_types": ["Rice Dish"],
"servings": 6,
"nutrimetric": { "grade": "B", "score": 72 },
"nutrition": {
"calories": 622.39,
"protein_g": 11.61,
"sodium_mg": 1268.77
},
"allergens": ["Dairy", "Mustard"],
"image_url": "https://…/jollof-rice.png"
}
],
"pagination": { "page": 1, "total": 3 }
}
Grilled Salmon with Lemon
Ingredients
6 items
Your Brand. Your Data.
Zero Attribution.
Unlike traditional food APIs, Foodashi is built for white-label use. The data we generate is yours to display, modify, and monetize. No "Powered by" links required.
No attribution required
Original, AI-generated recipes. Nothing scraped, no third-party copyright to clear, no "powered by" credit.
Invisible Infrastructure
Your users will never know we exist. We are the silent engine behind your app.
Real recipes.
Verified at every layer.
Our purpose-built pipeline processes every recipe through four independent stages (authenticity-gated generation, ingredient resolution, nutrition computation, and an independent AI judge), so nothing reaches the catalog without earning its place.
Authenticity-Gated Generation
Authentic techniques, native dish names and cultural context across 78 cuisines. Every dish clears a real-dish gate, and famous classics are checked against a canonical-fidelity checklist. Zero web scraping.
Ingredient Resolution
Every ingredient is resolved against a 1M+ ingredient database with gram weights, unit conversions and EU-14 allergen flags. Deterministic matching backed by semantic vector search, no placeholders.
Nutrition Engine
Nutrients computed per-ingredient with gram-weight precision and cooking-loss factors, then graded A to F by NutriMetric (our proprietary score) across four scientific pillars.
Independent AI Judge
An independent AI judge scores authenticity, ingredients and nutrition on top of a 13-point structural audit. Flagged recipes get one surgical auto-heal and a re-judge. Pass, or be rejected. Nothing ships broken.
Every recipe, scored.
NutriMetric is our proprietary nutrition scoring system. It evaluates every recipe across 4 scientific pillars and assigns an A-F grade so your users instantly understand nutritional quality.
NutriMetric
Proprietary Nutrition Quality Index
Grade Scale
Hover over the grades above to learn what each level means.
4 Scoring Pillars, 25 points each
Protein
Protein density relative to total calories
Calories
Energy density per 100g with category thresholds
Fat Balance
Fat-to-calorie ratio against healthy benchmarks
Sodium
Sodium per 100g against daily intake limits
Bonus Points
Up to +10 bonus for fiber, low saturated fat, and low sugars when data is available
Category-Aware
Adjusts thresholds for beverages, soups, salads, desserts, and snacks automatically
NutriMetric is a proprietary algorithmic indicator by Foodashi. It is not a government-certified nutrition label.
Plans that grow with your appetite.
Start building for free. Upgrade when you're ready to scale. No hidden fees.
Hobby
Perfect for testing and side projects.
- 10,000 requests / mo
- 30 req / min rate limit
- Core API endpoints
- 1 API Key
- No Overage Protection
- No Commercial License
Indie
For startups and serious apps.
- 150,000 requests / mo
- 600 req / min rate limit
- 3 API Keys
- Core + Search + Ingredients (excludes AI & Vision, see Pro)
- Overage: $0.50/1K extra
- Commercial License
Pro
Scale without limits.
- 1,000,000 requests / mo
- 3,000 req / min rate limit
- 10 API Keys
- All 70+ endpoints, incl. everything below
- AI meal planning + recipe analysis
- Food photo recognition (Vision)
- Semantic Search + NutriMetric scoring
- AI beverage pairing + FDA/EU labels
- Overage: $0.30/1K extra · Priority Support (24h)
Need custom limits? We offer enterprise plans with dedicated infrastructure and custom SLAs.
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What is Foodashi?
A recipe, nutrition and food-data REST API for developers. Recipes across 78 world cuisines with nutrition computed from 11 official databases, EU-14 allergen detection, NutriMetric A to F scoring and vector semantic search. White-label, with a free tier of 10,000 requests/month.
Frequently asked questions
Is the nutrition calculated or estimated?
Calculated wherever possible. Each ingredient's nutrition comes from 11 official government food-composition databases (USDA SR Legacy, CIQUAL France, MEXT Japan and more). When an ingredient isn't in any of them, its values are AI-estimated and recorded at lower confidence. Never silently passed off as authoritative.
Is there a free tier?
Yes. The Hobby plan is free forever with 10,000 API requests per month and no credit card required.
Which allergens does Foodashi detect?
All 14 EU-regulated allergens (EU Regulation 1169/2011) are declared on every recipe, with confirmed vs. may-contain flags.
What is NutriMetric?
NutriMetric is Foodashi's transparent A to F health score for each recipe, derived from its calculated nutrition. It is a guidance score, not a government-certified nutrition label.
Can I white-label the data?
Yes. Recipes are original, AI-generated content. No scraped sources, no third-party copyright to clear, and no attribution or "powered by" credit required.
How is Foodashi different from other recipe APIs?
Most recipe APIs return scraped text and estimated calories. Foodashi computes nutrition from 11 databases, screens the EU-14 allergens, scores each recipe A to F, and ships it white-label, with vector semantic search across 70+ endpoints.
What happens if I exceed my plan quota?
On the free Hobby tier, requests stop at the monthly limit. No overage and no surprise charges. Indie and Pro plans include fair, transparent overage rates per 1,000 requests.
Can I trust AI-generated recipes?
Every recipe runs through a multi-stage verification pipeline (authenticity checks, calculated nutrition, allergen screening and quality gates) before it is published.
Start building in minutes.
70+ endpoints. Real nutrition from 11 sources. 78 cuisines. Free tier with 10,000 requests/month. No credit card required.
