food-and-drink APIs

BaconMockup is a fun, free API that serves placeholder images featuring bacon — great for filling in image slots during web or app development when you just need something visual.

The Chomp API provides detailed nutritional data for millions of grocery products and restaurant menu items, including macros, ingredients, and allergen flags.

The Coffee API is a dead-simple, no-auth service that returns a random high-quality coffee photo every time you call it.

The Edamam Nutrition Analysis API parses natural-language food descriptions such as "1 cup of oatmeal" or "200g chicken breast" and returns detailed nutritional breakdowns including calories, macros, vitamins, and minerals.

The Edamam Recipe Search API lets you search a database of over 2 million recipes filtered by ingredients, diet labels such as vegan or keto, meal type, and cuisine.

Foodish is a fun, free API that returns a random food dish image URL each time you call it.

Fruityvice is a free, no-auth API that provides nutritional and botanical data for dozens of common fruits.

The Kroger API gives developers access to product catalog data, pricing, store locations, and promotions from one of the largest US grocery chains.

The LCBO API provides access to the Liquor Control Board of Ontario product catalog, including wines, spirits, and beers sold in Ontario, Canada.

Open Brewery DB is a free, open-source API that provides data on breweries, cideries, and bottle shops across multiple countries.

Open Food Facts is a free, community-driven database of food products from around the world, containing nutritional facts, ingredients, allergens, and Eco-scores.

Spoonacular is a comprehensive food and recipe API that provides recipe search, ingredient data, nutritional analysis, and meal planning features.

TacoFancy is a free, no-auth API built on a community-driven database of taco recipes, shells, fillings, and condiments.

The Tasty API, available on RapidAPI, provides access to recipe data, meal plans, ingredient lists, and cooking tips from the popular BuzzFeed Tasty platform.

The Report of the Week API provides structured data from the popular YouTube food and drink review series by ReviewBrah.

TheCocktailDB is a free cocktail recipe database with thousands of drinks from around the world.

TheMealDB is a free meal recipe database covering thousands of dishes from global cuisines.

Untappd is a social beer platform that lets users check in beers, rate them, and share with friends.

The What's on the Menu?

WhiskyHunter aggregates statistical data from past online whisky auctions, letting you track price trends for specific bottles over time.

Zestful is an ingredient parsing API that converts raw recipe ingredient strings like '2 cups all-purpose flour' into structured data with quantity, unit, and ingredient name.