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Edamam food database
Edamam's Food Database API parses free-text food and quantity descriptions via NLP, plus a Vision API that recognizes dishes from photos and extracts ingredient lists, returning results across 160+ nutrients and allergens for nearly 1M foods including 790,000 branded UPCs. A live GET this run against api.edamam.com's food-database endpoint returned a genuine 401 'Unauthorized' JSON error while carrying an echoed Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, confirming cors 'yes' — the same pattern as its Nutrition Analysis and Recipe Search siblings on the same developer.edamam.com portal. Four tiers run $14-299/month by monthly call volume (Basic Vision through Plus) plus a custom Unlimited plan, with only a short trial and no ongoing free tier.
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- Send it on every request as a header
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Developer reference
Paid Enterprise tiers only (no free tier): Basic $14/mo = 50 req/min (Food/Nutrition, UPC, Autocomplete) + 50 req/day (Vision API), 100,000 calls/month; Core $69/mo = 100 req/min, 750,000 calls/month; Plus $299/mo = 300 req/min, 5,000,000 calls/month; Unlimited = uncapped