# Spoonacular

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/spoonacular/  
**Website:** https://spoonacular.com/food-api  
**APIs profiled:** 7

The Spoonacular Recipe and Food API provides programmatic access to thousands of recipes, thousands of ingredients, 800,000+ food products, and 100,000+ menu items, plus nutrition analysis, meal planning, wine pairing, and food classification. Authentication is via an API key sent in the x-api-key header.

## Kin Score — 56.1 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 56.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 75.5 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 42.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 63.2 |
| Access Clarity | 63.2 |

## Agent readiness — 24.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (7)

- **Spoonacular Ingredients API** — The Ingredients API from Spoonacular — 9 operation(s) for ingredients.
- **Spoonacular Meal Planning API** — The Meal Planning API from Spoonacular — 12 operation(s) for meal planning.
- **Spoonacular Menu Items API** — The Menu Items API from Spoonacular — 8 operation(s) for menu items.
- **Spoonacular Misc API** — The Misc API from Spoonacular — 11 operation(s) for misc.
- **Spoonacular Products API** — The Products API from Spoonacular — 11 operation(s) for products.
- **Spoonacular Recipes API** — The Recipes API from Spoonacular — 42 operation(s) for recipes.
- **Spoonacular Wine API** — The Wine API from Spoonacular — 4 operation(s) for wine.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Spoonacular Agentic Access** — 99 operations · 24 acting

## Security (2)

- **Spoonacular Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Spoonacular Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Spoonacular Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (4)

- **Recipe and Cooking Apps** — Power consumer cooking apps with searchable recipes, step-by-step instructions, and ingredient-based discovery.
- **Diet and Nutrition Tracking** — Analyze meals and products for calories and nutrients to drive diet, fitness, and health applications.
- **Grocery and Shopping List Tools** — Build shopping lists from meal plans and look up packaged products by name or UPC.
- **AI Cooking Assistants** — Expose recipe, nutrition, and meal-planning operations to LLM agents through the official MCP server.

## Tags

Restaurant, Food And Drink, Recipes, Nutrition, Meal Planning, Public APIs

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