Spike Nutrition AI API

Spike Technologies, Inc. is a New York-organised health data company behind Spike API, which says more than 200 healthcare organisations work with it. It gives digital health, fitness and wellness apps a single integration layer for wearables, IoT and medical devices, lab reports and nutrition data, so they can deliver personalised insights without maintaining many separate integrations. Its site announces that Spike Technologies has been acquired by Raintree Systems.

The Nutrition AI API converts a food photo into structured nutrition data. Multiple AI models identify the dish and its ingredients using LanguaL terminology, then return up to 29 nutritional fields per 100 g or ml, an ingredient breakdown, serving size and a Nutri-Score rating, with optional translation and country-specific databases. Results can be processed synchronously or asynchronously with webhooks, and an MCP server lets LLM-based health coaches combine meal data with wearable and lab data.

• Food image analysis: identifies dishes and ingredients from a photo using computer vision and LanguaL terminology.
• Detailed nutrition: returns up to 29 fields covering energy, macros, fats, minerals and vitamins per 100 g or ml.
• Nutri-Score rating: gives an A to E score for each analysed meal.
• Localised output: country-specific nutrition databases and optional translation of dish names and descriptions.
• Async processing and webhooks: background analysis with real-time status notifications.
• MCP server: connects nutrition, wearable and lab data to any large language model for AI health coaching.

• Vietnamese health insurers and telehealth apps combining meal photos with smartwatch data for chronic disease programmes.
• Fitness and coaching apps building AI nutrition coaches that understand meals, activity and sleep.
• Corporate wellness platforms adding photo meal logging to employee health challenges.

• Quick integration: the company states that AI food scanning and calorie tracking can be added in one day.
• Global cuisine coverage: models trained on thousands of international dishes, with translation to over 180 languages.
• Richer personalisation: meal data can be combined with wearable, medical device and lab report data through one provider.
• Compliance: plans include GDPR, HIPAA and CCPA compliance, and the company states it does not store user data from wearables.

Health apps are converging nutrition, wearable and lab data to power AI health coaches, and buyers prefer one vendor that normalises all of these sources. Photo-based meal logging is replacing manual entry, and multilingual recognition of local dishes matters for apps serving Vietnam and Southeast Asia, where wearable adoption and digital health use are growing.

Spike Technologies, Inc. is organised under the laws of the State of New York. Its website announces that Raintree Systems has acquired Spike Technologies, while the Spike API brand and products remain online. Published case studies include OuiLive, Longevo, Moody Month, V.O2, Built With Science and Pulsetto.