spoonacular recipe and food API

The spoonacular recipe and food API is a powerful tool that offers a wide range of features and capabilities. It has been crafted by knowledge engineers who spent years developing a complex food ontology. This allows the API to understand the intricate relationships between ingredients, recipes, nutrition, allergens, and more. For example, it understands that 'nut free' muffins cannot contain pecans, even if the recipe doesn't explicitly mention 'nuts', and it automatically determines that a recipe with Worcestershire sauce isn't vegetarian due to the presence of anchovies. The API provides access to a wealth of information. It offers over 2,600 ingredients with nutrition data, price data, cooking tips, health information, substitutions, conversions, and mapping to products. It also features 5,000+ recipes with nutrition analysis, cost breakdown, cooking tips, related recipes, scaling/converting, semantic search, and wine pairings. Additionally, there are 600K+ products with ingredient analysis, nutrition data, nutrition visualization, descriptions, product comparison, and product search. The menu items section includes over 115K+ items from over 800 American restaurant chains, along with nutrition data, nutrition visualization, images, descriptions, and menu search. The API offers several use cases. It can automatically analyze recipes to check for common allergens and determine if a recipe is suitable for various dietary restrictions. It also computes the nutritional information for recipes automatically, enabling users to create meal plans that meet their dietary goals. The recipe management feature includes a semantic search that is fast, accurate, and smart, making it easy to add a recipe search to an app or website. Users can also plan their meals for the week and generate a shopping list with a click of the mouse. Another notable feature is the shoppable recipes, which provide an all-in-one solution for cooking at home. Users can pick their recipes and order all the ingredients from an online grocer for delivery or pickup. The API is used by hundreds of universities, schools, companies, and hackathons worldwide, demonstrating its wide appeal and practical applications. Overall, the spoonacular recipe and food API is a comprehensive and valuable resource for anyone working in the food and nutrition industry or looking to enhance their food-related applications.