Our story
About Calorie API
About Calorie API: a REST food calorie API over 4M+ foods for meal tracking, macros per 100 g, and barcode lookup.
Our mission
Provide developers with accurate, searchable nutrition data, from macros to barcode lookup, with transparent pricing and reliable uptime.
Quality nutrition data should be simple to integrate, affordable at every scale, and secure by default.
Read the docsHealth first
Every product decision is guided by helping people make better food choices through trustworthy data.
Core values
Principles that shape our API, documentation, and support.
Innovation
Search, suggest, and barcode endpoints built for modern apps.
Reliability
Rate limits, usage tracking, and health checks you can monitor.
Community
Developer-first docs, examples, and responsive support.
Accessibility
Free tier and public demo so you can evaluate before you commit.
Intelligence
Verified foods, match modes, and rich nutrient payloads.
Excellence
Clear changelogs, versioning, and honest SLAs per plan.
Impact
Built for teams shipping calorie tracking, meal planning, and wellness products.
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Nutrition data infrastructure for health software
Calorie API exists so engineering teams can ship calorie counting, macro tracking, and barcode scanning without curating millions of food records. We focus on verified nutrition values per 100g, fast search, and transparent developer experience from docs to billing.
Whether you are building a fitness app, corporate wellness portal, or AI meal coach, you get the same REST API, rate-limited for fairness and documented for production. Explore API documentation, read the blog, review plans, or get in touch with our team.