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Leaft Foods

Leaft Foods is a New Zealand food-technology company, founded in 2019 by John Penno and Maury Leyland Penno and headquartered in Rolleston in the Selwyn district near Christchurch, that extracts Rubisco — the protein that drives photosynthesis and the most abundant protein on Earth — from green leafy crops such as lucerne. Its proprietary platform turns leaves into a neutral-tasting, highly digestible protein sold as the Leaft Blade consumer beverage, as a Rubisco protein isolate ingredient for food manufacturers, and as an Alfalfa Protein Concentrate for pet nutrition. The company raised a US$15M Series A led by Khosla Ventures. Its digital surface is a Shopify storefront that publishes a real agent-facing commerce API — a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) discovery document, an MCP endpoint for catalog, cart and checkout, an llms.txt / agents.md agent instruction set, and OpenID Connect discovery for customer accounts.

Leaft Foods publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Food, AgTech, Alternative Protein, and Ingredients.

Leaft Foods’ developer surface includes engineering blog, support, signup flow, and 6 more developer resources.

25.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 9/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
2 APIs 2 MCP Servers
CompanyFoodAgTechAlternative ProteinIngredientsPet NutritionAgentic CommerceUniversal Commerce ProtocolMCPShopifyNew Zealand

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Leaft Foods Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) API

The agent-facing commerce API for the Leaft Foods storefront. The store implements the Universal Commerce Protocol (ucp.dev) natively through Shopify, exposing a UCP merchant pr...

Leaft Blade Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) API

The agent-facing commerce API for leaftblade.com, the direct-to-consumer storefront for the Leaft Blade protein beverage and a second Shopify shop operated by Leaft Foods (shop ...

MCP Servers 2

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Leaft Foods UCP MCP Server

Leaft Foods runs a live, publicly addressable MCP server as part of its Shopify-native Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) implementation. Agents discover it from /.well-known/ucp...

MCP SERVER

Leaft Blade UCP MCP Server

The second live UCP MCP server operated by Leaft Foods, serving the direct-to-consumer Leaft Blade storefront at leaftblade.com (Shopify shop leaft-lightgrove.myshopify.com). Un...

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

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Leaftfoods Authentication

3 schemes

SECURITY

Leaftfoods Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Scopes 1

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Leaftfoods Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 1

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Design & Contract 1

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: leaftfoods
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:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/leaftfoods.png
name: Leaft Foods
description: Leaft Foods is a New Zealand food-technology company, founded in 2019 by John Penno and Maury Leyland Penno and
  headquartered in Rolleston in the Selwyn district near Christchurch, that extracts Rubisco — the protein that drives photosynthesis
  and the most abundant protein on Earth — from green leafy crops such as lucerne. Its proprietary platform turns leaves into
  a neutral-tasting, highly digestible protein sold as the Leaft Blade consumer beverage, as a Rubisco protein isolate ingredient
  for food manufacturers, and as an Alfalfa Protein Concentrate for pet nutrition. The company raised a US$15M Series A led
  by Khosla Ventures. Its digital surface is a Shopify storefront that publishes a real agent-facing commerce API — a Universal
  Commerce Protocol (UCP) discovery document, an MCP endpoint for catalog, cart and checkout, an llms.txt / agents.md agent
  instruction set, and OpenID Connect discovery for customer accounts.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/leaftfoods/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- khosla-ventures
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: agentic-commerce-surface
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Food
- AgTech
- Alternative Protein
- Ingredients
- Pet Nutrition
- Agentic Commerce
- Universal Commerce Protocol
- MCP
- Shopify
- New Zealand
apis:
- aid: leaftfoods:ucp-commerce
  name: Leaft Foods Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) API
  description: The agent-facing commerce API for the Leaft Foods storefront. The store implements the Universal Commerce Protocol
    (ucp.dev) natively through Shopify, exposing a UCP merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp and an MCP endpoint at /api/ucp/mcp
    that agents use to search the catalog, create a cart, open and update a checkout, and complete a purchase. Completing
    payment requires contemporaneous buyer approval. Read-only storefront JSON (products, collections, search, cart) is available
    without authentication, and customer-account OAuth/OIDC is served from Shopify's authentication issuer.
  humanURL: https://www.leaftfoods.com/llms.txt
  baseURL: https://www.leaftfoods.com/api/ucp/mcp
  tags:
  - Agentic Commerce
  - Universal Commerce Protocol
  - MCP
  - Commerce
  - Checkout
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/leaftfoods-mcp.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/leaftfoods-llms.txt
  - type: WellKnown
    url: well-known/leaftfoods-well-known.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/leaftfoods-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/leaftfoods-scopes.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/leaftfoods-conventions.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/leaftfoods-conformance.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/leaftfoods-problem-types.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/leaftfoods-lifecycle.yml
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/_index.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.leaftfoods.com/llms.txt
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: shopify
  x-platform-surface: ucp
- aid: leaftfoods:leaftblade-ucp-commerce
  name: Leaft Blade Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) API
  description: The agent-facing commerce API for leaftblade.com, the direct-to-consumer storefront for the Leaft Blade protein
    beverage and a second Shopify shop operated by Leaft Foods (shop leaft-lightgrove.myshopify.com). It implements the same
    Universal Commerce Protocol surface as the corporate site — a merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp and an MCP endpoint
    for catalog, cart, checkout, fulfillment, discount and order — but unlike the corporate store it serves a live product
    catalog and additionally advertises Shop Pay as a payment handler. Agent instructions are published at both /llms.txt
    and /agents.md.
  humanURL: https://www.leaftblade.com/agents.md
  baseURL: https://www.leaftblade.com/api/ucp/mcp
  tags:
  - Agentic Commerce
  - Universal Commerce Protocol
  - MCP
  - Commerce
  - Checkout
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/leaftblade-mcp.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/leaftblade-llms.txt
  - type: WellKnown
    url: well-known/leaftfoods-well-known.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.leaftblade.com/agents.md
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.leaftblade.com/policies/terms-of-service
  - type: PrivacyPolicy
    url: https://www.leaftblade.com/policies/privacy-policy
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: shopify
  x-platform-surface: ucp
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/leaftfoods-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.leaftfoods.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.leaftfoods.com/blogs/news
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://www.leaftfoods.com/blogs/news.atom
- type: Support
  url: https://www.leaftfoods.com/pages/contact
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.leaftfoods.com/account/login
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.leaftfoods.com/policies/privacy-policy
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://nz.linkedin.com/company/leaft-foods
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/leaftfoods-lifecycle.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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