List Categories

{
  "summary": "List all meal categories - GET /categories.php",
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://www.themealdb.com/api/json/v1/1/categories.php"
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "body": {
      "categories": [
        {
          "idCategory": "1",
          "strCategory": "Beef",
          "strCategoryThumb": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/category/beef.png",
          "strCategoryDescription": "Beef is the culinary name for meat from cattle, particularly skeletal muscle. Humans have been eating beef since prehistoric times.[1] Beef is a source of high-quality protein and essential nutrients.[2]"
        },
        {
          "idCategory": "2",
          "strCategory": "Chicken",
          "strCategoryThumb": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/category/chicken.png",
          "strCategoryDescription": "Chicken is a type of domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the red junglefowl. It is one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, with a total population of more than 19 billion as of 2011.[1] Humans commonly keep chickens as a source of food (consuming both their meat and eggs) and, more rarely, as pets."
        },
        {
          "idCategory": "3",
          "strCategory": "Dessert",
          "strCategoryThumb": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/category/dessert.png",
          "strCategoryDescription": "Dessert is a course that concludes a meal. The course usually consists of sweet foods, such as confections dishes or fruit, and possibly a beverage such as dessert wine or liqueur."
        },
        {
          "idCategory": "4",
          "strCategory": "Lamb",
          "strCategoryThumb": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/category/lamb.png",
          "strCategoryDescription": "Lamb, hogget, and mutton are the meat of domestic sheep (species Ovis aries) at different ages."
        },
        {
          "idCategory": "5",
          "strCategory": "Miscellaneous",
          "strCategoryThumb": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/category/miscellaneous.png",
          "strCategoryDescription": "General foods that don't fit into another category"
        },
        {
          "idCategory": "6",
          "strCategory": "Pasta",
          "strCategoryThumb": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/category/pasta.png",
          "strCategoryDescription": "Pasta is a staple food of traditional Italian cuisine, with the first reference dating to 1154 in Sicily."
        },
        {
          "idCategory": "7",
          "strCategory": "Pork",
          "strCategoryThumb": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/category/pork.png",
          "strCategoryDescription": "Pork is the culinary name for meat from a domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus). It is the most commonly consumed meat worldwide."
        },
        {
          "idCategory": "8",
          "strCategory": "Seafood",
          "strCategoryThumb": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/category/seafood.png",
          "strCategoryDescription": "Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans. Seafood prominently includes fish and shellfish."
        },
        {
          "idCategory": "9",
          "strCategory": "Side",
          "strCategoryThumb": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/category/side.png",
          "strCategoryDescription": "A side dish, sometimes referred to as a side order, side item, or simply a side, is a food item that accompanies the entree or main course at a meal."
        },
        {
          "idCategory": "10",
          "strCategory": "Starter",
          "strCategoryThumb": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/category/starter.png",
          "strCategoryDescription": "An entree in modern French table service is a dish served before the main course of a meal."
        },
        {
          "idCategory": "11",
          "strCategory": "Vegan",
          "strCategoryThumb": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/category/vegan.png",
          "strCategoryDescription": "Veganism is both the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products, particularly in diet, and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals."
        },
        {
          "idCategory": "12",
          "strCategory": "Vegetarian",
          "strCategoryThumb": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/category/vegetarian.png",
          "strCategoryDescription": "Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, and the flesh of any other animal)."
        },
        {
          "idCategory": "13",
          "strCategory": "Breakfast",
          "strCategoryThumb": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/category/breakfast.png",
          "strCategoryDescription": "Breakfast is the first meal of a day. The word in English refers to breaking the fasting period of the previous night."
        },
        {
          "idCategory": "14",
          "strCategory": "Goat",
          "strCategoryThumb": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/category/goat.png",
          "strCategoryDescription": "The domestic goat or simply goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a subspecies of C. aegagrus domesticated from the wild goat of Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe."
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}