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Food Database Food Search Example

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Food Database Food Search Example is an example object payload from Edamam, with 2 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

requestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://api.edamam.com/api/food-database/v2/parser",
    "query": {
      "app_id": "YOUR_FOOD_APP_ID",
      "app_key": "YOUR_FOOD_APP_KEY",
      "ingr": "1 large apple",
      "nutrition-type": "logging"
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "body": {
      "text": "1 large apple",
      "parsed": [
        {
          "food": {
            "foodId": "food_at5xz0msl87rxsbgaplnfa1lz0sl",
            "label": "Apple",
            "knownAs": "apple",
            "nutrients": {
              "ENERC_KCAL": 52,
              "PROCNT": 0.26,
              "FAT": 0.17,
              "CHOCDF": 13.81,
              "FIBTG": 2.4
            },
            "category": "Generic foods",
            "categoryLabel": "food"
          },
          "quantity": 1,
          "measure": {
            "uri": "http://www.edamam.com/ontologies/edamam.owl#Measure_large",
            "label": "Large"
          }
        }
      ],
      "hints": []
    }
  }
}