Edamam nutrition

The Edamam B2B API is accessed by sending HTTPS requests on specific URLs as described below. The base URL is https://api.edamam.com, and you obtain the full URL by appending request’s path to the base URL, for example, https://api.edamam.com/api/nutrition-details.

This API covers all key use cases related to recipe and food text natural language processing and nutrition analysis. The API employs NLP (Natural Language Processing) which allows for the extraction of food entities from unstructured text.

Covered Use Cases

Full analysis of food recipes in real time – entity extraction, measure and quantity extraction with computation of the applicable nutrition for the recipe, applicable health and diet labels, and recipe classification for cuisine, meal, and dishtypes. Finally, it adjusts quantity for certain ingredients to account for the cooking process. For example, it calculates oil absorption for fried recipes, excludes solids from stock and broth recipes, calculates marinate absorption for marinates and much more. Extraction of food entities with measures and quantities from unstructured text. Usage in chatbots transcribing natural speech to text.