Swiss Food Composition Database

The Swiss Food Composition Database is the official reference dataset on the nutrient composition of foods available in Switzerland, published by the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO / BLV). Version 7.1 (1 July 2026) covers 1,246 mostly generic foods across 19 main categories and 106 subcategories, with macronutrients, water, alcohol and energy for nearly every food, plus vitamins, minerals, fatty acid groups and individual fatty acids for most. The data is published free of charge in German, French, Italian and English, for commercial as well as scientific use, subject to acknowledgement of the source. Alongside the Excel export and the public search application, the FSVO operates a documented, entirely unauthenticated JSON REST API on the FoodCASE platform, described by a served OpenAPI 3.0.1 document with 21 read-only operations covering food search, single-food retrieval, nutrient values and their sources, ingredients, LanguaL codes, the category tree, component/unit reference data and the current database version.

Swiss Food Composition Database publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Data API, Stats API, System API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Food, Nutrition, food-composition, Health, and Open Data.

Swiss Food Composition Database’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, support, changelog, authentication, and 20 more developer resources.

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Contract Quality 8.8 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 6.0 / 17

Access Clarity 7.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 5.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 8.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 4

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

Swiss Food Composition Database Data API

The data API from Swiss Food Composition Database — 13 operation(s) for data.

Swiss Food Composition Database Stats API

The stats API from Swiss Food Composition Database — 1 operation(s) for stats.

Swiss Food Composition Database System API

The system API from Swiss Food Composition Database — 5 operation(s) for system.

Swiss Food Composition Database system configuration API

The system configuration API from Swiss Food Composition Database — 1 operation(s) for system configuration.

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Swiss Food Composition Database Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Swiss Food Composition Database Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 3

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

Swiss Food Composition Database Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Swiss Food Composition Database Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Swiss Food Composition Database Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

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WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

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AgentSkill

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Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

SecurityTxt

Security

Authentication

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Plans

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: swiss-food-composition-database
name: Swiss Food Composition Database
description: The Swiss Food Composition Database is the official reference dataset on the nutrient composition of foods available
  in Switzerland, published by the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO / BLV). Version 7.1 (1 July 2026) covers
  1,246 mostly generic foods across 19 main categories and 106 subcategories, with macronutrients, water, alcohol and energy
  for nearly every food, plus vitamins, minerals, fatty acid groups and individual fatty acids for most. The data is published
  free of charge in German, French, Italian and English, for commercial as well as scientific use, subject to acknowledgement
  of the source. Alongside the Excel export and the public search application, the FSVO operates a documented, entirely unauthenticated
  JSON REST API on the FoodCASE platform, described by a served OpenAPI 3.0.1 document with 21 read-only operations covering
  food search, single-food retrieval, nutrient values and their sources, ingredients, LanguaL codes, the category tree, component/unit
  reference data and the current database version.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/swiss-food-composition-database/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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: free
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · Open access
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://naehrwertdaten.ch/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/favicon.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:health-device-stack
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pipeline
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-27'
modified: '2026-08-27'
tags:
- Food
- Nutrition
- food-composition
- Health
- Open Data
- Government
- Switzerland
- Reference Data
- Public Sector
- Research
tags_raw:
- food
- nutrition
- food-composition
- health
- open-data
- government
- switzerland
- reference-data
- public-sector
- research
apis:
- aid: swiss-food-composition-database:swiss-food-composition-database-data-api
  name: Swiss Food Composition Database Data API
  description: The data API from Swiss Food Composition Database — 13 operation(s) for data.
  humanURL: https://api.webapp.prod.blv.foodcase-services.com/BLV_WebApp_WS
  baseURL: https://api.webapp.prod.blv.foodcase-services.com/BLV_WebApp_WS
  tags:
  - Data
  tags_raw:
  - data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/swiss-food-composition-database-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.webapp.prod.blv.foodcase-services.com/BLV_WebApp_WS
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://naehrwertdaten.ch/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/The-Swiss-Food-Composition-Database-API-descripton_V3-separate-API-prod.docx
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/swiss-food-composition-database-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/swiss-food-composition-database-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/swiss-food-composition-database-data-model.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/swiss-food-composition-database-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/swiss-food-composition-database-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/swiss-food-composition-database-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/swiss-food-composition-database-lifecycle.yml
- aid: swiss-food-composition-database:swiss-food-composition-database-stats-api
  name: Swiss Food Composition Database Stats API
  description: The stats API from Swiss Food Composition Database — 1 operation(s) for stats.
  humanURL: https://api.webapp.prod.blv.foodcase-services.com/BLV_WebApp_WS
  baseURL: https://api.webapp.prod.blv.foodcase-services.com/BLV_WebApp_WS
  tags:
  - Stats
  tags_raw:
  - stats
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/swiss-food-composition-database-stats-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.webapp.prod.blv.foodcase-services.com/BLV_WebApp_WS
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://naehrwertdaten.ch/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/The-Swiss-Food-Composition-Database-API-descripton_V3-separate-API-prod.docx
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/swiss-food-composition-database-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/swiss-food-composition-database-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/swiss-food-composition-database-data-model.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/swiss-food-composition-database-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/swiss-food-composition-database-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/swiss-food-composition-database-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/swiss-food-composition-database-lifecycle.yml
- aid: swiss-food-composition-database:swiss-food-composition-database-system-api
  name: Swiss Food Composition Database System API
  description: The system API from Swiss Food Composition Database — 5 operation(s) for system.
  humanURL: https://api.webapp.prod.blv.foodcase-services.com/BLV_WebApp_WS
  baseURL: https://api.webapp.prod.blv.foodcase-services.com/BLV_WebApp_WS
  tags:
  - System
  tags_raw:
  - system
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/swiss-food-composition-database-system-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.webapp.prod.blv.foodcase-services.com/BLV_WebApp_WS
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://naehrwertdaten.ch/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/The-Swiss-Food-Composition-Database-API-descripton_V3-separate-API-prod.docx
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/swiss-food-composition-database-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/swiss-food-composition-database-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/swiss-food-composition-database-data-model.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/swiss-food-composition-database-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/swiss-food-composition-database-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/swiss-food-composition-database-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/swiss-food-composition-database-lifecycle.yml
- aid: swiss-food-composition-database:swiss-food-composition-database-system-configuration-api
  name: Swiss Food Composition Database system configuration API
  description: The system configuration API from Swiss Food Composition Database — 1 operation(s) for system configuration.
  humanURL: https://api.webapp.prod.blv.foodcase-services.com/BLV_WebApp_WS
  baseURL: https://api.webapp.prod.blv.foodcase-services.com/BLV_WebApp_WS
  tags:
  - System Configuration
  tags_raw:
  - system configuration
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/swiss-food-composition-database-system-configuration-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.webapp.prod.blv.foodcase-services.com/BLV_WebApp_WS
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://naehrwertdaten.ch/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/The-Swiss-Food-Composition-Database-API-descripton_V3-separate-API-prod.docx
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/swiss-food-composition-database-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/swiss-food-composition-database-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/swiss-food-composition-database-data-model.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/swiss-food-composition-database-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/swiss-food-composition-database-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/swiss-food-composition-database-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/swiss-food-composition-database-lifecycle.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/swiss-food-composition-database-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/swiss-food-composition-database-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://naehrwertdaten.ch
- type: Documentation
  url: https://naehrwertdaten.ch/en/downloads/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.webapp.prod.blv.foodcase-services.com/BLV_WebApp_WS
- type: Support
  url: https://naehrwertdaten.ch/en/contact/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://naehrwertdaten.ch/en/legal-information/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://naehrwertdaten.ch/en/legal-information/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://naehrwertdaten.ch/en/versions-and-updates/
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/swiss-food-composition-database-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/swiss-food-composition-database-security.txt
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/swiss-food-composition-database-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/swiss-food-composition-database-packages.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/swiss-food-composition-database-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/swiss-food-composition-database-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/swiss-food-composition-database-conformance.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/swiss-food-composition-database-changelog.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/swiss-food-composition-database-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/swiss-food-composition-database-rate-limits.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/swiss-food-composition-database-data-model.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/swiss-food-composition-database-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/swiss-food-composition-database-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/swiss-food-composition-database-authentication.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/swiss-food-composition-database-openapi-overlay.yaml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-27'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 25
  pass: local-v1

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