Food & Drink APIs let you add food & drink 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 Food Products Database | 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 Recipes, Food Products, and Meal Planning | Freemium | API Key | Yes | 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 | |
| Spoonacular spoonacular API The spoonacular Nutrition, Recipe, and Food API allows you to access over thousands of recipes, thousands of ingredients, 800,000 food products, over 100,000 menu items, and restaurants. Our food ontology and semantic re | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | 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 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.