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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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9.7/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 11/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
0 APIs
CompanyDeep TechFood TechnologyPlant-Based MeatAlternative ProteinFood and BeverageConsumer Packaged GoodsSustainability

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 9.7/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.5 / 20
Access Clarity 4.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Contract Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 11/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 6 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
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Security Posture 1

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

Black Sheep Foods Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Resources

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WellKnown

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DomainSecurity

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 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: black-sheep-foods
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/black-sheep-foods.png
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.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/black-sheep-foods/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bessemer-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Deep Tech
- Food Technology
- Plant-Based Meat
- Alternative Protein
- Food and Beverage
- Consumer Packaged Goods
- Sustainability
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- 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
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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