Black Sheep Foods

Black Sheep Foods is a San Francisco food-technology company making plant-based meat that targets the flavors and textures of premium and heritage animal proteins — starting with its signature meat-free lamb, plus steak bites, built on a proprietary pea-protein DualTexture blend. Originally launched as a restaurant and retail brand (served at Bay Area restaurants and sold as vegan ground lamb), the company has increasingly positioned itself as a B2B ingredient supplier, licensing its DualTexture protein platform for hybrid and fully plant-based meat products. It is venture-backed (investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and AgFunder) and pitches a sustainability story of far lower land, water, and greenhouse-gas footprint than conventionally raised lamb. This is a consumer/ ingredient food-tech business with no first-party public developer API; its web presence runs on Shopify.

Black Sheep Foods is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Deep Tech, Food Technology, Plant-Based Meat, and Alternative Protein.

Black Sheep Foods’ developer surface includes engineering blog and 5 more developer resources.

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11.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 4/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyDeep TechFood TechnologyPlant-Based MeatAlternative ProteinFood and BeverageConsumer Packaged GoodsSustainability

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 11.4/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 4/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Black Sheep Foods Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

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Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown
WellKnown

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
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TermsOfService

Company 2

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Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: black-sheep-foods
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name: Black Sheep Foods
description: Black Sheep Foods is a San Francisco food-technology company making plant-based meat that targets the flavors
  and textures of premium and heritage animal proteins — starting with its signature meat-free lamb, plus steak bites, built
  on a proprietary pea-protein DualTexture blend. Originally launched as a restaurant and retail brand (served at Bay Area
  restaurants and sold as vegan ground lamb), the company has increasingly positioned itself as a B2B ingredient supplier,
  licensing its DualTexture protein platform for hybrid and fully plant-based meat products. It is venture-backed (investors
  include Bessemer Venture Partners and AgFunder) and pitches a sustainability story of far lower land, water, and greenhouse-gas
  footprint than conventionally raised lamb. This is a consumer/ ingredient food-tech business with no first-party public
  developer API; its web presence runs on Shopify.
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
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tags:
- Company
- Deep Tech
- Food Technology
- Plant-Based Meat
- Alternative Protein
- Food and Beverage
- Consumer Packaged Goods
- Sustainability
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maintainers:
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- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/black-sheep-foods-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/black-sheep-foods-well-known.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://blacksheepfoods.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://blacksheepfoods.com/blogs/news
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://blacksheepfoods.com/policies/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://blacksheepfoods.com/policies/terms-of-service
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  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence