OpenNutrition
Provides access to the comprehensive OpenNutrition food database, offering nutritional data and barcode lookup capabilities.
About
Leverage the comprehensive OpenNutrition food database with this Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. It grants access to over 300,000 food items, detailed nutritional data, and barcode lookups, addressing common issues of fragmented and unreliable nutritional information. By combining authoritative public sources, OpenNutrition delivers transparent, comprehensive, and accurate data freely accessible for developers and researchers. The server runs entirely locally, ensuring privacy, fast response times, and no external API calls for data processing.
Key Features
- Search foods by name, brand, or partial matches
- Browse paginated lists of all available foods
- Retrieve detailed nutritional information by food ID
- Perform food lookups using EAN-13 barcodes
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Use Cases
- Enable local food and nutrition query capabilities
- Develop tools for recipe nutritional analysis
- Integrate comprehensive nutritional data into applications