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CalorieNinjas

Nutrition and calorie data for foods and recipes

Food & DrinkAuth: NoneHTTPS: YesCORS: yesStatus: alive

Last verified: November 12, 2026

Reliability

100% uptime: the documentation responded in 5 of 5 checks over the last 30 days. Median response time: 216 ms.

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At a glance

// Fetch the docs page with cURL curl https://calorieninjas.com/api

API reference

From CalorieNinjas's OpenAPI specification (version 1.0.0), spec updated June 21, 2021, via APIs.guru.

Natural language nutrition API to extract nutrition data from any text.
  • Endpoints: 1
  • Spec license: Apache 2.0
  • Machine-readable spec: OpenAPI JSON (import into Postman, Insomnia or a code generator)
MethodPathWhat it does
GET/v1/nutritionGet nutrition text for an input string containing food and beverage words.

History

  • November 12, 2026: last health check, responding

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