United Natural Foods (UNFI)

United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) is the largest publicly traded wholesale distributor of health and specialty food in the United States and Canada. UNFI supplies natural, organic, specialty, and conventional foods to over 30,000 retail locations. UNFI provides digital supplier and customer portals including myUNFI, supplier portal, EDI integration, and the Harmony Core API for data access.

United Natural Foods (UNFI) publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Insights API, Orders API, Products API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Food Distribution, Wholesale, Natural Foods, Supply Chain, and Fortune 500.

The United Natural Foods (UNFI) catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

United Natural Foods (UNFI)’s developer surface includes authentication and 14 more developer resources.

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40.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessEnterpriseSelf serve
5 APIs
Food DistributionWholesaleNatural FoodsSupply ChainFortune 500

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
Composite quality — 40.4/100 · thin
Contract Quality 17.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 4.5 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 5

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

UNFI EDI Integration

UNFI supports Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) for automated exchanges of purchase orders, invoices, and fulfillment data between UNFI and its supplier and retail partners. EDI...

United Natural Foods (UNFI) Insights API

Analytics and data reporting

United Natural Foods (UNFI) Orders API

Purchase orders and fulfillment

United Natural Foods (UNFI) Products API

Product catalog and listing management

United Natural Foods (UNFI) Suppliers API

Supplier profile and warehouse management

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

UNFI Supplier and Data API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

United Natural Foods Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

United Natural Foods Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

United Natural Foods Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

United Natural Foods Context

0 classes · 28 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

United Natural Foods (UNFI) API Rules

15 rules · 4 errors 9 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

United Natural Foods (UNFI) API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

UNFI Purchase Order

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UNFI Product

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Unfi Supplier Product Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Unfi Supplier Getsalesinsights Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Unfi Supplier Listorders Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Unfi Supplier Listproducts Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

United Natural Foods Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

United Natural Foods Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

United Natural Foods Agentic Access

12 operations · 4 acting

12 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Press 5

Recent news and press coverage referencing this provider.

UNFI taps into AI to improve forecasting, fulfillment

2026-05-25

AI is starting to take over inventory planning and it's ...

2026-05-25

United Natural Foods Expands Supply Chain Evolution ...

2026-05-25

United Natural Foods announces partnership with ...

2026-05-25

UNFI and Symbotic Announce Agreement to Implement ...

2026-05-25

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Supplier Portal
Supplier Portal
 Customer Portal
Customer Portal

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

OpenAPI
OpenAPI
 JSONSchema
JSONSchema
 JSONSchema
JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

SpectralRules
SpectralRules
 JSONLDContext
JSONLDContext
 Vocabulary
Vocabulary

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Investor Relations
Investor Relations

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

X
X

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: united-natural-foods
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/united-natural-foods/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
created: '2026-03-21'
modified: '2026-05-19'
name: United Natural Foods (UNFI)
description: United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) is the largest publicly traded wholesale distributor of health and specialty
  food in the United States and Canada. UNFI supplies natural, organic, specialty, and conventional foods to over 30,000 retail
  locations. UNFI provides digital supplier and customer portals including myUNFI, supplier portal, EDI integration, and the
  Harmony Core API for data access.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/united-natural-foods.png
tags:
- Food Distribution
- Wholesale
- Natural Foods
- Supply Chain
- Fortune 500
apis:
- name: UNFI EDI Integration
  description: UNFI supports Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) for automated exchanges of purchase orders, invoices, and fulfillment
    data between UNFI and its supplier and retail partners. EDI integration supports the procure-to-pay lifecycle for both
    suppliers and retailers.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://suppliers.unfi.com
  baseURL: https://api.unfi.com/v1
  tags:
  - EDI
  - Supply Chain
  - Procurement
  - Invoicing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://suppliers.unfi.com
- aid: united-natural-foods:united-natural-foods-insights-api
  name: United Natural Foods (UNFI) Insights API
  description: Analytics and data reporting
  humanURL: https://suppliers.unfi.com
  baseURL: https://api.unfi.com/v1
  tags:
  - Insights
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/united-natural-foods-insights-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://suppliers.unfi.com
- aid: united-natural-foods:united-natural-foods-orders-api
  name: United Natural Foods (UNFI) Orders API
  description: Purchase orders and fulfillment
  humanURL: https://suppliers.unfi.com
  baseURL: https://api.unfi.com/v1
  tags:
  - Orders
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/united-natural-foods-orders-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://suppliers.unfi.com
- aid: united-natural-foods:united-natural-foods-products-api
  name: United Natural Foods (UNFI) Products API
  description: Product catalog and listing management
  humanURL: https://suppliers.unfi.com
  baseURL: https://api.unfi.com/v1
  tags:
  - Products
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/united-natural-foods-products-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://suppliers.unfi.com
- aid: united-natural-foods:united-natural-foods-suppliers-api
  name: United Natural Foods (UNFI) Suppliers API
  description: Supplier profile and warehouse management
  humanURL: https://suppliers.unfi.com
  baseURL: https://api.unfi.com/v1
  tags:
  - Suppliers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/united-natural-foods-suppliers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://suppliers.unfi.com
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/united-natural-foods-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/united-natural-foods-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/united-natural-foods-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.unfi.com
- type: Supplier Portal
  url: https://suppliers.unfi.com
- type: Customer Portal
  url: https://www.myunfi.com
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unfi
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/UNFIInc
- type: Investor Relations
  url: https://ir.unfi.com
- type: OpenAPI
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/united-natural-foods/main/openapi/unfi-supplier-openapi.yml
- type: SpectralRules
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/united-natural-foods/main/rules/unfi-supplier-rules.yml
- type: JSONSchema
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/united-natural-foods/main/json-schema/unfi-supplier-product-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/united-natural-foods/main/json-schema/unfi-supplier-order-schema.json
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/united-natural-foods/main/json-ld/united-natural-foods-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/united-natural-foods/main/vocabulary/united-natural-foods-vocabulary.yml
maintainers:
- FN: API Evangelist
  email: info@apievangelist.com