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Edamam

Edamam is a leading provider of nutrition data and analytics. They offer nutrition analysis, food database, recipe search, and meal planning APIs that power thousands of health, fitness, and food apps. Their databases contain close to 900,000 foods, over 2 million recipes, and comprehensive nutritional information.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Edamam the way a machine reads it — 77 machine-readable artifacts across 4 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Edamam scores 58.3/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 55/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 58.3/100 · developing
Contract Quality 18.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 55/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Edamam

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Edamam. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 4

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Edamam Nutrition Analysis API

The Edamam Nutrition Analysis API provides detailed nutrition data for recipes and food items. Send a recipe or food description and receive comprehensive nutritional informatio...

Edamam Recipe Search API

The Edamam Recipe Search API provides access to over 2 million recipes with full nutritional analysis, diet and health labels, ingredient details, and cuisine type.

Edamam Meal Planner API

The Edamam Meal Planner API provides personalized meal planning capabilities based on dietary preferences, nutrition goals, and available ingredients.

Edamam Food Database API

Search foods by keyword or barcode and resolve nutrition.

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Edamam Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Edamam Rate Limits

11 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 4

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Edamam Food And Grocery Database Api Context

7 classes · 25 properties

JSON-LD

Edamam Meal Planner Api Context

5 classes · 14 properties

JSON-LD

Edamam Nutrition Analysis Api Context

3 classes · 18 properties

JSON-LD

Edamam Recipe Search Api Context

4 classes · 27 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Edamam API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Edamam API Rules

44 rules · 8 errors · 20 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 19

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

FoodHint

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Food

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Measure

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Nutrient

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NutrientsRequest

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NutrientsResponse

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ParserResponse

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Constraint

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MealPlanRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MealPlanResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NutrientRange

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Section

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Nutrient

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NutritionResponse

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RecipeRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Nutrient

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RecipeHit

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Recipe

19 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RecipeSearchResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 19

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Scroll within the panel for all 19 ·

Examples 19

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Edamam Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Edamam Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Edamam Agentic Access

7 operations · 3 acting

7 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Edamam — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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