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Free food and drink APIs

5 of 5 returned the expected data at the last check, all without a key. Packaged-food data by barcode, breweries, fruit nutrition and food photos.

5 APIs · no key · HTTPS

Build snapshot, not live. One verifier run on , from the machine that built this site. How we check

  • Ingredients, nutrition and labels of packaged food by barcode.

    world.openfoodfacts.orgRuns in the browser905 msup 1 of 1 day

  • Breweries, cideries and brewpubs with address and type.

    api.openbrewerydb.orgRuns in the browser180 msup 1 of 1 day

  • FruityviceWorking

    Nutrition values and taxonomy of fruit.

    www.fruityvice.comServer only809 msup 1 of 1 day

  • FoodishWorking

    A random photo of a food dish.

    foodish-api.comRuns in the browser333 msup 1 of 1 day

  • A random coffee photo URL.

    coffee.alexflipnote.devServer only652 msup 1 of 1 day

Before you pick one

Open Food Facts is crowd-sourced: fields can be missing or wrong, so treat every value as optional.

Open an API’s page to see the exact request we send, the answer it gave, and how many of the last 30 days it was up. If it is marked CORS you can run the request from the page itself.

Questions

Which free food and drink APIs need no key?

All 5 listed here: Open Food Facts, Open Brewery DB, Fruityvice, Foodish, Coffee (alexflipnote). Each answered our verifier without a key or account.

Which food and drink APIs can I call from the browser?

In the Oct 3, 2026 run, 3 of 5 sent CORS headers: Open Food Facts, Open Brewery DB, Foodish. Call the rest (Fruityvice, Coffee (alexflipnote)) from a server.

Which one answered fastest?

Open Brewery DB, in 180 ms, in the Oct 3, 2026 run from our build machine. Latency depends on where you call from, so treat it as a rough guide.

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