Edamam’s Diet Recommendations API (Version Retired)

The Edamam Diet Recommendations API empowers you to build diet recommendation tools based on specific diet and health needs


Edamam provides you with all the tools you need to effectively manage a diet – filters by more then 20 filters, diets, allergies, nutrition & more. You easily find thousands of recipes for any combination of ingrediets, food name and filter it down by specific dietary needs.

Filter by calories, diet or allergy restrictions

- Edamam has developed over 20 diet and health filters for your customers to use. Now you can develop applications for virtually any popular diet or major health condition.

Web Label	Deffinition
High-Protein	More than 50% of total calories from proteins
Low-Carb	Less than 20% of total calories from carbs
Low-Fat	Less than 15% of total calories from fat
Low-Fat2	Less than 3g of fat per serving
Balanced	Protein/Fat/Carb values in 15/35/50 ratio
High-Fiber	More than 5g fiber per serving
Low-Sodium	Less than 140mg Na per serving
No-sugar	No simple sugars – glucose, dextrose, galactose, fructose, sucrose, lactose, maltose
Sugar-conscious	Less than 4g of sugar per serving
Gluten	No ingredients containing gluten
Vegetarian	No meat, poultry, or fish
Vegan	No meat, poultry, fish, dairy, eggs or honey
Paleo	Excludes what are perceived to be agricultural products; grains, legumes, dairy products, potatoes, refined salt, refined sugar, and processed oils
Gluten-free	Free of gluten containing foods
Wheat-free	No wheat, can have gluten though
Dairy	No dairy; no lactose
Eggs	No eggs or products containing eggs
Soy	No soy or products containing soy
Fish	No fish or fish derivatives
Shellfish	No shellfish or shellfish derivatives
Tree Nuts	No tree nuts or products containing tree nuts
Low potassium	Less than 150mg per serving
Alcohol-free	No alcohol used or contained
No oil added	No oil added except to what is contained in the basic ingredients
Peanuts	No peanuts or products containing peanuts

Get access to full nutritional information for 1.5 million recipes

- Explore a practically unlimited number of recipes to find the exact ones which meet the specific dietary needs you are looking for.

30+ nutrients for each recipe

- Get all the essencial nutritional information for each recipe, its ingredients and the food cautions related to it

Normalized Recipe Database

- We have the most accurate automated nutrition analysis on the web powered by our proprietary NLP (Natural Language Processing) engine. All recipe information is normalized and in a single unified format.