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 15 more developer resources.

35.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0
AccessEnterprise
1 APIs
Food DistributionWholesaleNatural FoodsSupply ChainFortune 500

Kin Score

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0
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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 6

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

FinOps 1

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

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.

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

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  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:
  - Order
  tags_raw:
  - 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:
  - Product
  tags_raw:
  - 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: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/united-natural-foods-capability-edges.yml
  name: United Natural Foods (UNFI) Business Capability Map
- 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

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