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How to Make Muse Your Personal Trainer

Muse can already read workouts from the connectors Meta ships. It still needs a food catalog for the meal half. Here is the custom MCP skill, the credential rule, and the prompts.

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October 7, 20265 min read

How to Make Instinct Your Personal Trainer
Instinct is a phone agent you text, and it can call a food catalog if you add one MCP connection. Here is the profile, the header, the prompts, and the line it should not cross.
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October 7, 20265 min read
Log Meal API
A Log Meal API estimates nutrition from a picture. Calorie API does not. It looks up a food by name or barcode. Here is when the photo API is the product, and when it is not.
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October 1, 20265 min read
Nutrition API for Developers
A nutrition API for developers is a REST lookup you can call from a weekend prototype. One header, JSON, per-100g macros, and a free tier that does not ask for a card.
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October 1, 20265 min read
Food Tracking API
A food tracking API should resolve the food the user ate. It should not be the system of record for the diary. Here is the split, and what each lookup costs.
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October 1, 20265 min read
API for Food Calories
An API for food calories answers a name or a barcode with calories per 100 grams. You multiply by the serving. The API does not total the day.
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October 1, 20265 min read
Nutrition Database API
A nutrition database API is a query interface over a food catalog. Calorie API does not ship the database as a download. You search, scan, and cache the foods your users actually log.
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October 1, 20265 min read
FatSecret API Pricing
FatSecret prices by country dataset, not by request volume. Basic is free at 5,000 calls a day on US foods. Here is how that compares with a plan that publishes a monthly call quota.
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October 1, 20265 min read
Calorie Counter API
A calorie counter API supplies the calories for a food. The counter itself, the daily total, lives in your app. Here is the call sequence and what the free plan covers.
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October 1, 20265 min read
Meal Plan API
Calorie API is not a meal-plan generator. It is the food data underneath one: search, barcode, and per-100g macros, so your planner can price a week in API calls.
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October 1, 20265 min read
Free Nutrition API
Free nutrition APIs are not the same product. USDA is free reference data. Calorie API is 1,000 calls a month. Nutritionix no longer has a public free tier. Spoonacular is 50 points a day.
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October 1, 20265 min read
Food Macros API
A food macros API should return calories, protein, carbohydrate, and fat on one scale. Calorie API uses per 100 grams, so a 150 gram serving is multiplication, not a second lookup.
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October 1, 20265 min read

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How to Make Muse Your Personal Trainer

How to Make Instinct Your Personal Trainer

Log Meal API

Nutrition API for Developers

Food Tracking API

API for Food Calories

Nutrition Database API

FatSecret API Pricing

Calorie Counter API

Meal Plan API

Free Nutrition API

Food Macros API

Nutrition & food API guides for developers

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