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.
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.
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.
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).
Edamam Food and Grocery Database API
OPEN COLLECTIONEdamam Meal Planner API
OPEN COLLECTIONEdamam Nutrition Analysis API
OPEN COLLECTIONEdamam Recipe Search API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing 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
PLANSRate 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
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Edamam Finops
FINOPSSemantic 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.
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
SPECTRALEdamam API Rules
SPECTRALJSON 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
JSON SCHEMAFood
JSON SCHEMAMeasure
JSON SCHEMANutrient
JSON SCHEMANutrientsRequest
JSON SCHEMANutrientsResponse
JSON SCHEMAParserResponse
JSON SCHEMAConstraint
JSON SCHEMAMealPlanRequest
JSON SCHEMAMealPlanResponse
JSON SCHEMANutrientRange
JSON SCHEMASection
JSON SCHEMANutrient
JSON SCHEMANutritionResponse
JSON SCHEMARecipeRequest
JSON SCHEMANutrient
JSON SCHEMARecipeHit
JSON SCHEMARecipe
JSON SCHEMARecipeSearchResponse
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 19 ·
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.
Food And Grocery Database Api Food Hint Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFood And Grocery Database Api Food Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFood And Grocery Database Api Measure Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFood And Grocery Database Api Nutrient Structure
JSON STRUCTUREFood And Grocery Database Api Parser Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMeal Planner Api Constraint Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMeal Planner Api Meal Plan Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMeal Planner Api Meal Plan Response Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMeal Planner Api Nutrient Range Structure
JSON STRUCTUREMeal Planner Api Section Structure
JSON STRUCTURENutrition Analysis Api Nutrient Structure
JSON STRUCTURENutrition Analysis Api Nutrition Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURENutrition Analysis Api Recipe Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecipe Search Api Nutrient Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecipe Search Api Recipe Hit Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecipe Search Api Recipe Search Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecipe Search Api Recipe Structure
JSON STRUCTUREScroll 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.
Scroll within the panel for all 19 ·
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.
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.
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
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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