# Noms

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/noms/  
**Website:** https://noms.sh  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Noms provides a comprehensive nutrition data API covering 3.7 million foods and 298,000 brands across 230 countries. The service offers detailed nutrient information, barcode lookup, and food images, all accessible via a RESTful interface. It includes a free tier with no credit card required, extensive documentation, and support resources to help developers integrate nutritional data into applications.

## Kin Score — 57.3 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-10-23 under rubric 0.25.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 57.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 73.2 |
| Contract Quality | 62.9 |
| Contract Governance | 19.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 42.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 76.3 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 24.2 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 36.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | verified |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |
| Pagination Ratio | paginated |
| Operation Distinctiveness | distinct |

## APIs (7)

- **Noms API** — REST API for nutrition data covering 3.7M foods and 298K brands.
- **Noms Brands API** — The brand catalog — the names foods are sold under, and the `/v1/brands/{id}` handle each `brand_id` points at.
- **Noms Food Groups API** — The canonical food-group catalog.
- **Noms Foods API** — The food catalog. Search, filter, sort, and embed related brand / food-group / nutrient detail via `include=`.
- **Noms Market API** — Read and set your account's market. Free-tier accounts serve one chosen market, shared by every key they own; set it before querying foods (paid plans serve all markets).
- **Noms Nutrients API** — The canonical nutrient catalog (codes, units, hierarchy).
- **Noms Usage API** — Your **account's** usage against its quota for the current window — the total across every key you hold, which is what enforcement compares against. Poll it to see where you sta...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Noms Agentic Access** — 11 operations · 1 acting

## Security (3)

- **Noms Authentication** — 2 schemes
- **Noms Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Noms Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Noms Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Nutrition, Food, Data, Health

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