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Manage food and nutrition — audit recipes and ingredients via AI.

6 tools Official Updated Jun 28, 2026 Official Vinkius Partner

Empower your AI agent to orchestrate your entire culinary research and nutritional auditing workflow with Edamam, the comprehensive source for food and recipe data. By connecting the Edamam API to your agent, you transform complex nutritional analysis into a natural conversation. Your agent can instantly search for thousands of recipes, audit ingredient breakdowns, and identify health-conscious meal options without you ever touching a nutrition portal. Whether you are planning a dietary regimen or conducting regional culinary research, your agent acts as a real-time nutritionist, ensuring your data is always precise and well-categorized.

What you can do

  • Recipe Auditing — Search for thousands of recipes by keyword or name and retrieve detailed metadata, including calorie counts and cuisine types.
  • Nutritional Oversight — Audit the detailed breakdown of ingredients to understand total calories, weights, and nutritional markers instantly.
  • Dietary Discovery — Query recipes based on specific diet labels such as 'high-protein' or 'low-fat' to maintain strict nutritional control.
  • Health Intelligence — Find recipes matching health labels like 'vegan' or 'gluten-free' to assist in dietary planning.
  • Cuisine Discovery — Retrieve recipes categorized by cuisine type to understand regional food distribution and themes.

How it works

  1. Subscribe to this server
  2. Enter your Edamam App ID and App Key
  3. Start managing your food intelligence through Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client

Who is this for?

  • Nutritionists & Chefs — monitor recipe data and retrieve nutritional metadata straight from your workflow.
  • Health Enthusiasts — verify ingredient breakdowns and audit calorie counts without manual searching.
  • Meal Planners — perform rapid audits of dietary labels and identify matching recipes through natural language.
  • Operations Leads — automate food data querying to orchestrate cross-functional hospitality teams smoothly.
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6 tools expose this connector's capabilities to your AI agent.

check_api_status

Check if the Edamam service is operational

get_nutrition_details

Get nutritional breakdown for a list of ingredients

search_recipes_by_cuisine

Search for recipes by cuisine type (e.g., American, Italian)

search_recipes_by_diet

Search for recipes with specific diet labels (e.g., high-protein, low-fat)

search_recipes_by_health

Search for recipes with health labels (e.g., vegan, gluten-free)

search_recipes

Search for food recipes by keyword or name

See how to talk to your AI agent using Edamam.

Search for 'healthy chicken salad' recipes using Edamam.

I've retrieved several healthy chicken salad recipes! Notable options include a 'Mediterranean Chicken Salad' and a 'Grilled Lemon Chicken Salad'. Would you like the calorie count or full nutritional breakdown for any of these?

Get nutritional details for '1 cup of cooked rice' and '100g of grilled salmon'.

I've retrieved the nutrition details! The combination has approximately 450 calories and 35g of protein. I can provide the full breakdown of fats, carbs, and vitamins if you'd like.

Show vegan recipes for 'pasta' using Edamam.

I've identified 10 vegan pasta recipes. Notable matches include 'Vegan Tomato Basil Pasta' and 'Creamy Cashew Pasta'. I can provide the cuisine type and preparation time for each if you'd like.

Register for a developer account at [**developer.edamam.com**](https://developer.edamam.com/), create an application for the Recipe Search or Nutrition Analysis API, and you will find your credentials in your dashboard. Copy and paste them below.

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