USDA FoodData Central API (FDC-API)

All the Data to Power Nutrition Solutions

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This API is best for leveraging food and nutrition data for digital applications.

Developers should use the FDC-API to access food nutrition data to be used in their apps. This data is pulled from the USDA database, making it an authoritative and reliable source of information. It is easily accessible through a RESTful API, allowing it to be easily and quickly incorporated into applications, and is highly compatible. It can be used by developers and organizations for access to food composition data in order to answer questions about the nutrition of food products, ingredients and recipes.

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The FDC-API has been a great resource for our app. It allows us to provide users with reliable nutrition data on the food they are consuming. It also offers a comprehensive API, which makes it easy to integrate into our product.

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