spoonacular Food API

spoonacular is a food and recipe API operated by skycraft GmbH in Dresden, Germany. It started as a food management site that combines recipes, store-bought products and restaurant meals to help people find food that fits their diet and nutrition goals, and now serves more than 253,000 developers, universities, schools and companies building food and health apps.

The API is built on a food ontology that links ingredients, recipes, nutrition and allergens, so it can tell that a nut-free muffin cannot contain pecans or that Worcestershire sauce is not vegetarian. It covers more than 2,600 ingredients, 5,000 recipes, 600,000 grocery products and 115,000 menu items from over 800 American restaurant chains. Developers use it for semantic recipe search, automatic nutrition analysis, diet and intolerance classification, meal plan generation, shopping lists, shoppable recipes and, since 2026, macro estimates from dish photos.

• Recipe analysis: computes nutrition and detects common allergens and diets such as vegan, vegetarian and Paleo.
• Semantic search: understands complex queries such as gluten-free, nut-free desserts without apples.
• Meal planning: generates meal plans that meet nutritional targets and calculates daily nutrition.
• Shopping lists and shoppable recipes: builds lists from plans and links ingredients to online grocers.
• Product and menu data: nutrition for 600,000+ grocery products and 115,000+ restaurant menu items.
• Nutrition by photo and MCP: estimates macros from dish photos and supports AI tools through an MCP server.

• Vietnamese recipe and cooking media apps adding diet filters, nutrition facts and weekly meal plans.
• Online grocery platforms turning meal plans into one-click shopping baskets.
• Health and fitness start-ups prototyping personalised meal planning features at low cost.

• Diet-aware personalisation: automatic allergen and diet classification such as vegan, Paleo or Whole30 supports tailored recommendations.
• Faster development: meal planning, nutrition calculation and shopping lists are available as ready endpoints.
• Low entry cost: a free plan and paid plans from 29 USD per month, cancellable month to month.
• Commerce link: shoppable recipes connect meal plans with online grocery ordering and packaged food brands.

Recipe platforms, grocery e-commerce and health apps increasingly personalise content by diet, allergy and nutrition goals, and AI assistants need structured food knowledge to answer such questions reliably. In Vietnam and Southeast Asia, online grocery and recipe media are growing, and developers look for affordable APIs to add meal planning and nutrition features.

spoonacular is operated by skycraft GmbH, Leibnizstrasse 5, Dresden, Germany, led by CEO Dr. David Urbansky, and its API terms are governed by German law. The API is also distributed through RapidAPI, with discounted academic and hackathon access.