Dean Foods

Dean Foods was a leading U.S. food and beverage company and one of the largest processors and direct-to-store distributors of fresh fluid milk and other dairy products. After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2019, most of Dean Foods' assets were acquired by Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) in 2020. Dean Foods no longer operates as an independent company and does not publish a public developer API; surviving brands are now managed under DFA. This profile is retained for historical reference.

Dean Foods is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Acquired, Beverages, Dairy, Defunct, and Food and Beverage.

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0.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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Acquired Beverages Dairy Defunct Food and Beverage Milk Fortune 500

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 0.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 0.0 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

13 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points

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Security Posture 1

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

Dean Foods Domain Security

DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Press 5

Recent news and press coverage referencing this provider.

Dean Foods

Dean Foods opts for internal transformation plan after ...

Dean Foods Completes Sale to DFA | Dairy News

Dean Foods goes bust thanks to a fatal error: shying away ...

Dean Foods Company Initiates Voluntary Reorganization ...

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Acquirer

Acquirer

ShutdownNotice

ShutdownNotice

Source (apis.yml)

aid: dean-foods
name: Dean Foods
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dean-foods/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  probe_state: none
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
position: Producing
access: 1st-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/dean-foods.png
tags:
- Acquired
- Beverages
- Dairy
- Defunct
- Food and Beverage
- Milk
- Fortune 500
created: '2025-01-01'
modified: '2026-09-05'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-status: defunct
x-status-detail: Filed Chapter 11 in November 2019; most assets sold to Dairy Farmers of America in 2020 and the company wound
  down. No first-party site remains.
kind: company
description: Dean Foods was a leading U.S. food and beverage company and one of the largest processors and direct-to-store
  distributors of fresh fluid milk and other dairy products. After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2019, most of Dean
  Foods' assets were acquired by Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) in 2020. Dean Foods no longer operates as an independent company
  and does not publish a public developer API; surviving brands are now managed under DFA. This profile is retained for historical
  reference.
apis: []
common:
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dean-foods
- type: Acquirer
  url: https://www.dfamilk.com/
- type: ShutdownNotice
  url: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dean-foods-company-initiates-voluntary-reorganization-with-new-financial-support-from-existing-lenders-300956285.html
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/dean-foods-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/dean-foods-llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-05'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v3
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: Dean Foods filed Chapter 11 on 2019-11-12 and its plants and brands were sold to Dairy Farmers of America in May
    2020; the company has no operating surface left to profile — deanfoods.com is now registered to Dairy Farmers of America,
    Inc., serves no HTTPS at all (the TLS handshake to port 443 aborts with "tlsv1 alert internal error", so every https probe
    returns 0 rather than a status code), and over plain HTTP answers 301 to https://www.dfamilk.com/ for every path including
    /openapi.json, /llms.txt and all seven /.well-known/ paths, while no api., developer., docs. or portal. subdomain resolves
    on either deanfoods.com or dfamilk.com and no GitHub organization exists under any spelling of the name.
  evidence:
  - url: https://deanfoods.com/openapi.json
    status: 0
  - url: https://deanfoods.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 0
  - url: http://deanfoods.com/
    status: 301
  - url: https://www.dfamilk.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.dfamilk.com/zzz-soft404-control-probe
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/deanfoods
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-09-05'

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