USDA FoodData Central food search
Searches USDA FoodData Central foods (Foundation, SR Legacy, Survey FNDDS and Branded products with brand owner, UPC and ingredients) and returns matching. Needs query.
Inputs
- Query
- Food or product words, e.g. 'cheddar cheese'Required · query
- Data type
- Data types to include, e.g. ['Foundation', 'SR Legacy']Optional · data_type
- Brand owner
- Brand owner for Branded foods, e.g. 'Kraft Heinz Foods Company'Optional · brand_owner
- Sort by
- Sort field, e.g. 'publishedDate' (dataType.keyword, lowercaseDescription.keyword, fdcId or publishedDate)Optional · sort_by
- Sort order
- Sort order, e.g. 'desc' (asc or desc)Optional · sort_order
- Page size
- Foods per page (Foundation foods carry ~45 KB of nutrients each), e.g. 5Optional · page_size
- Page number
- Page number, e.g. 1Optional · page_number
Pricing
- Price
- Free, no charge per call
- Billing
- No charge per call. A workspace is still needed so your agent can call it.
- License
- CC0 1.0 (USDA FoodData Central, public domain)
- Attribution
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central (fdc.nal.usda.gov)
Call
Your agent reads the schema and the price with inspect_tool before it runs the tool.
- MCP call
- cURL command
- TypeScript
- Tool ID
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