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Food Recipe MCP Server

io.github.AIDataNordic/food-recipe-mcp
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Food Recipe MCP is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 2 tools. Last commit 28 Apr 2026.

Semantic search across 50,000+ food recipes with hybrid retrieval and reranking.

Uptime history 39 hours of history
39 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
2
Tools
read from the server
266 ms
Response time
average over 24h
1
Stars
last commit 28 Apr 2026

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add food-recipe-mcp --transport http https://recipes.aidatanorge.no/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "food-recipe-mcp": {
      "url": "https://recipes.aidatanorge.no/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.food-recipe-mcp]
url = "https://recipes.aidatanorge.no/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "food-recipe-mcp": {
      "url": "https://recipes.aidatanorge.no/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "food-recipe-mcp": {
      "url": "https://recipes.aidatanorge.no/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

ping
ping
Simple connectivity test. Returns a greeting to confirm the server is running.
recipes
search_recipes
Search a database of recipes using hybrid semantic search (dense + sparse) with reranking. The database contains ~50,000 recipes from Food.com covering a wide range of cuisines, meal types, and cooking styles. Recipes include nutritional information, difficulty ratings, and user ratings. Use natural language in the query to describe what you are looking for — cuisine, style, main ingredient, occasion, or mood all work well. Norwegian and English are both supported natively. Examples: 'quick Italian pasta for weeknight dinner' 'Swedish meatballs with gravy' 'healthy high-protein chicken bowl' 'easy chocolate cake for beginners' 'something with salmon and lemon' 'Indian curry chicken' 'traditional Norwegian kjøttkaker' 'hurtig pasta med kylling' 'enkel sjokoladekake' Args: query: What you are looking for — describe the dish, cuisine, main ingredient, cooking style or mood freely. Any language is supported. diet: Optional — filter by dietary requirement: 'vegetarian', 'vegan', 'gluten-free', 'dairy-free', 'low-carb', 'keto', 'paleo' max_minutes: Optional — maximum total time in minutes, e.g. 30 difficulty: Optional — 'easy', 'medium' or 'hard' servings: Optional — not used for filtering (servings vary), but include in query for scaling context, e.g. 'pasta dish for 6 people' limit: Number of results to return after reranking (default 5, max 20) Returns: List of recipes ranked by relevance. Each result includes rerank_score, rrf_score (hybrid fusion), title, total_time, difficulty, diet labels, ingredients, instructions, nutrition, rating, and source URL context.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://recipes.aidatanorge.no/mcp streamable-http answering 256 ms 8 min ago

Food Recipe MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Food Recipe MCP do?
It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: ping, search_recipes. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Food Recipe MCP working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 266 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Food Recipe MCP?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Food Recipe MCP need an API key?
No. Food Recipe MCP completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Food Recipe MCP?
It answers our handshake in 266 ms on average, which is faster than 51% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Food Recipe MCP open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 1 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.