Open Data and Machine-Readable Endpoints

Name: Nutritionizm Open Food and Nutrition Dataset
Creator: Nutritionizm
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Nutritionizm publishes machine-readable JSON, CSV, and Markdown endpoints for researchers, developers, search engines, and AI agents.

Available Endpoints

Priority Foods Index (JSON): https://nutritionizm.com/data/foods.json - Full array of priority foods with per-100g macros and micronutrients (with explicit units), standard servings, source IDs, and citations.
Priority Foods Table (CSV): https://nutritionizm.com/data/foods.csv - Flat CSV with one row per priority food (columns: name, slug, category, kcal, protein_g, fat_g, saturatedFat_g, carbs_g, sugars_g, fiber_g, sodium_mg, micronutrients, source, retrieved, url).
Individual Food Record (JSON): https://nutritionizm.com/data/foods/bananas-raw.json - Per-food JSON endpoint at /data/foods/[slug].json for every priority food.
Nutrients Reference (JSON): https://nutritionizm.com/data/nutrients.json - Tracked nutrients with units, FDA Reference Daily Values, plain-language definitions, and canonical URLs.
Indexed Research Papers (JSON): https://nutritionizm.com/data/papers.json - Peer-reviewed nutrition papers with DOIs, titles, publication years, journals, and digest URLs.
LLM Index and Full Corpus: https://nutritionizm.com/llms.txt and https://nutritionizm.com/llms-full.txt - Structured index and combined Markdown corpus of indexable pages.

License Statement

Underlying nutrient values sourced from USDA FoodData Central are in the public domain (CC0 1.0 Universal). Nutritionizm's compilation, schema normalization, and plain-language health digests are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Attribution requires a link to the canonical page URL on nutritionizm.com.

Suggested Citation

Nutritionizm. (2026). Open Food and Nutrition Dataset. https://nutritionizm.com/data/ (accessed via nutritionizm.com, last verified 2026-10-26). CC BY 4.0; underlying USDA FoodData Central values public domain.