Food ingredient info API

Look up a food ingredient by name via TheMealDB's ingredient reference (keyless, free), returning id, type, description, and image. Answers 'what is an ingredient X', 'describe chicken as an ingredient', 'info about lime', 'tell me about flour'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data/food-ingredient-info

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache86400s public

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API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/data/food-ingredient-info

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "ingredient": "Chicken"
}

Example response

{
  "query": "Chicken",
  "found": true,
  "ingredient": {
    "id": "1",
    "name": "Chicken",
    "type": null,
    "description": "The chicken is a type of domesticated fowl...",
    "thumbnail": "https://www.themealdb.com/images/ingredients/Chicken.png"
  }
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "ingredient"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "ingredient": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "Chicken",
        "Lime"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}