National Agricultural Library

National Agricultural Library FDC API

endpoints to retrieve nutrient data

GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 9

GET /v1/food/{fdcId} Fetches details for one food item by FDC ID #
GET /v1/foods Fetches details for multiple food items using input FDC IDs #
POST /v1/foods Fetches details for multiple food items using input FDC IDs #
GET /v1/foods/list Returns a paged list of foods, in the 'abridged' format #
POST /v1/foods/list Returns a paged list of foods, in the 'abridged' format #
GET /v1/foods/search Returns a list of foods that matched search (query) keywords #
POST /v1/foods/search Returns a list of foods that matched search (query) keywords #
GET /v1/json-spec Returns this documentation in JSON format #
GET /v1/yaml-spec Returns this documentation in JSON format #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/api-guide

Specifications

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/national-agricultural-library/refs/heads/main/openapi/national-agricultural-library-fdc-api-openapi.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

national-agricultural-library-fdc-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  description: The FoodData Central API provides REST access to FoodData Central (FDC).
  version: 1.0.1
  title: Food Data Central FDC API
  contact:
    name: Food Data Central Contact Form
    url: https://nal.altarama.com/reft100.aspx?key=FoodData
  license:
    name: Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal
    url: https://creativecommons.org
servers:
- url: https://api.nal.usda.gov/fdc
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:


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