# Edamam

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/edamam-recipes/  
**Website:** https://www.edamam.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 10

Edamam is a food and nutrition data platform powering recipe search, NLP-based nutrition analysis, food database lookup (keyword / brand / UPC / AI Vision), and personalized meal planning. The flagship Recipe Search API v2 covers a 2M+ recipe index with 30+ filters across diet, health, cuisine, meal, dish, nutrients, time, glycemic index, and CO2 emissions class.

## Kin Score — 36.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 36.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 62.5 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 31.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 14.5 |
| Access Clarity | 14.5 |

## Agent readiness — 38.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (10)

- **Edamam Food Nutrition Request - AI Vision (Beta) API** — The Food Nutrition Request - AI Vision (Beta) API from Edamam — 1 operation(s) for food nutrition request - ai vision (beta).
- **Edamam Food Request Step 1 - Parser API** — The Food Request Step 1 - Parser API from Edamam — 1 operation(s) for food request step 1 - parser.
- **Edamam Food Request Step 2 - Nutrients API** — The Food Request Step 2 - Nutrients API from Edamam — 1 operation(s) for food request step 2 - nutrients.
- **Edamam Food Search Autocomplete API** — The Food Search Autocomplete API from Edamam — 1 operation(s) for food search autocomplete.
- **Edamam Nutrition Data API** — The Nutrition Data API from Edamam — 1 operation(s) for nutrition data.
- **Edamam Nutrition Details API** — The Nutrition Details API from Edamam — 1 operation(s) for nutrition details.
- **Edamam planner API** — Meal planning
- **Edamam Recipe Search API** — Search or access individual recipes.
- **Edamam Shopping List API** — The *Shopping List API* provides aggregation of shopping item quantities over one or more ingredient lists, and optional referral to external shopping services. A `shopping-list...
- **Edamam values API** — Daily values

## Agentic access (1)

- **Edamam Recipes Agentic Access** — 14 operations · 7 acting

## Security (2)

- **Edamam Recipes Authentication** — apiKey/http · 4 schemes
- **Edamam Recipes Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Edamam Recipes Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (6)

- **Recipe Discovery Apps** — Build consumer recipe search and discovery apps with rich filtering.
- **Nutrition Tracking** — Power food logging and nutrition tracking with NLP-based ingredient analysis.
- **Personalized Meal Planning** — Generate diet- and health-aware meal plans for fitness, wellness, and clinical nutrition apps.
- **Grocery and Shopping** — Aggregate ingredients into shopping lists with optional Instacart fulfillment.
- **Chatbots and Voice** — Edamam Platform Assistant chatbot and MCP server expose food/recipe tools to conversational agents.
- **Sustainability Apps** — Surface CO2e emissions class to promote lower-impact food choices.

## Tags

Food And Drink, Recipes, Nutrition, Diet, Allergens, Meal Planning, Sustainability, Carbon Footprint, Public APIs

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/edamam-recipes/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.