OpenNutrition FAQs

Question 1

Who can benefit from using OpenNutrition?

Accepted Answer

Developers and researchers seeking freely accessible, accurate, and comprehensive nutritional data for building applications, diet trackers, research tools, or integrating food data into AI assistants like Claude/Cline.

Question 2

How does OpenNutrition ensure data accuracy and reliability?

Accepted Answer

OpenNutrition addresses data fragmentation by combining authoritative public sources like USDA, CNF, FRIDA, and AUSNUT. It avoids inconsistent user-generated content, offering transparent, accurate, and comprehensive nutritional data.

Question 3

What core features does OpenNutrition offer?

Accepted Answer

Key features include searching foods by name or brand, browsing paginated food lists, retrieving detailed nutritional information by food ID, and performing food lookups using EAN-13 barcodes.

Question 4

What is OpenNutrition?

Accepted Answer

OpenNutrition is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server providing access to a comprehensive food database with over 300,000 food items, detailed nutritional data, and barcode lookup capabilities.

Question 5

Is OpenNutrition suitable for privacy-conscious applications?

Accepted Answer

Yes, OpenNutrition runs fully locally on your machine as an MCP server. All data processing and queries occur locally with no external API calls, ensuring user privacy and fast response times.

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