Food & Drink APIs let you add food & drink-powered capabilities without building from scratch. Every entry below is profiled with trust signals — pricing model, authentication requirements, CORS support, rate limits, and live uptime checks — so you can compare options and pick production-safe choices instead of guessing from a link list.
| API | Pricing | Auth | CORS | Health | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BaconMockup Resizable bacon placeholder images | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| CalorieNinjas API Nutrition and calorie data API. | Free | API Key | Yes | Profile | |
| Chomp Data about various grocery products and foods | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Coffee Random pictures of coffee | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Edamam API Edamam API: nutrition data, recipe search, diet and health filters, food database with 2.3M+ items, and meal planning tools. | Freemium | API Key | Yes | Profile | |
| Edamam nutrition Nutrition Analysis | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Edamam recipes Recipe Search | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Food Info API Nutrition data for millions of foods from six national food composition datasets | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Foodish Random pictures of food dishes | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Fruityvice API Data about all kinds of fruit | Free | Unknown | Unknown | Profile | |
| Jelly Belly Wiki Data about Jelly Belly beans- flavores, facts, history and more endpoints | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Kroger Supermarket Data | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Nutritionix API Nutritionix API: natural language nutrition tracking, food database with 900K+ items, exercise logging, and barcode scanning. | Freemium | API Key | Yes | Profile | |
| Open Brewery DB Breweries, Cideries and Craft Beer Bottle Shops | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Open Food Facts API OpenFoodFacts API for food product data: ingredients, nutrition facts, allergens, labels, and eco-scores from open database. | Free | API Key | No | Profile | |
| PunkAPI BrewDog's DIY Dog beer catalogue as an API | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| PunkAPI 2 Brewdog Beer Recipes | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | Profile | |
| RecipeAPI Recipes, ingredients, nutrition data and cooking instructions | Freemium | API Key | Yes | Profile | |
| Rustybeer API Beer brewing tools | Unknown | Unknown | No | Profile | |
| Spoonacular API Spoonacular API: recipe search, nutrition data, meal planning, product analysis, wine pairing, and food trivia with 500K+ recipes. | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile | |
| Status Pizza Pizza for every HTTP Status | Free | No | Yes | Profile | |
| TacoFancy Community-driven taco database | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Tasty API to query data about recipe, plan, ingredients | Free | API Key | No | Profile | |
| The Report of the Week Food & Drink Reviews | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| TheCocktailDB Cocktail Recipes | Freemium | API Key | Yes | Profile | |
| TheMealDB Meal Recipes | Freemium | API Key | Yes | Profile | |
| Untappd Social beer sharing | Freemium | OAuth | No | Profile | |
| What's on the menu? NYPL human-transcribed historical menu collection | Free | API Key | Yes | Profile | |
| WhiskyHunter Past online whisky auctions statistical data | Free | No | No | Profile | |
| Zestful Parse recipe ingredients | Freemium | API Key | No | Profile |
Start with pricing and auth: free tiers and no-auth APIs are fastest to prototype with. Then check CORS if your app calls the API from the browser, and health before you commit — a great food & drink API that's been down for a week will block your launch. Each profile below shows all of these signals plus rate limits where documented.