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Nutrition MCP Server

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Nutrition is answering right now. Last checked 6 min ago. It exposes 8 tools. Last commit 17 Sep 2026.

Nutrition for 910 plant foods across 11 national datasets, plus GB/EU & US claim checking

Uptime history 38 days of history
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Tools
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493 ms
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last commit 17 Sep 2026

What changed 4

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 15 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

4 Sep a tool appeared check_claim
15 Aug 3 tools appeared get_recipe, health_topic, search_recipes

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Today is the operative word: we check Nutrition every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 6 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add nutrition --transport http https://mcp.heathy.org/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nutrition": {
      "url": "https://mcp.heathy.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.nutrition]
url = "https://mcp.heathy.org/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nutrition": {
      "url": "https://mcp.heathy.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nutrition": {
      "url": "https://mcp.heathy.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 8

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

claim
check_claim
For a RAW or minimally-processed whole food, report which nutrition claims ("source of iron", "high in vitamin C", "high fibre") the published data supports under GB/EU rules (15%/30% of NRV per 100 g, Reg. 1924/2006) and US rules (10-19%/20% of DV per RACC, 21 CFR 101.54) — and, uniquely, flag where that answer DEPENDS ON WHICH national food-composition table was used, since the eleven tables reconciled here disagree on the same food by a median of 1.63x. Applies to claims wherever they appear, including websites and advertising (Reg. 1924/2006 Art. 1(2)), not only packaging. NOT valid for cooked or manufactured products — their composition depends on recipe and processing. Screening only: under Art. 5(1)(b)(i) the nutrient must be in THE FINAL PRODUCT, so a supported claim still needs an analysis of the producer's own produce. Never treat this as a way to pick a source that qualifies.
foods
search_foods
Find the Heathy slug for a food or Ayurvedic herb by name, including regional and non-English aliases (Hindi, Sanskrit, botanical names). Call this first when you have a plain-English or local name and need the slug for lookup_food or herb_monograph. Returns ranked candidates rather than guessing a single answer.
health
health_topic
What to eat for a health goal — the nutrients involved, why each one, and which raw recipes carry them. Call this before answering "what should I eat for X". Accepts a goal ("gut health", "bone-health") or a named condition ("PCOS", "ADHD", "anaemia"): condition names resolve even though topic titles are physiological. Crucially, topics that people reach for with a diagnosis carry an explicit note saying what the evidence does and does NOT support, at its own rating — for ADHD and autism that note says diet is not a treatment, per NICE. Reproduce those notes rather than summarising them away. Omit the argument to list every topic.
herb
herb_monograph
Get a sourced monograph for an Ayurvedic herb, with traditional use and modern research kept strictly separate and never blended: `traditional` records what the tradition claims, `modern` records what research shows with an evidence tier (1 = strongest). Every response includes a mandatory `safety` block — cautions, pregnancy guidance and drug interactions — which must be reproduced alongside any information taken from this tool. Accepts English, Sanskrit, Hindi or botanical names ("turmeric", "haldi", "Curcuma longa").
lookup
lookup_food
Get the full per-100 g nutrient profile of a whole plant food, reconciled across up to 11 national food-composition datasets (USDA, UK CoFID, IFCT India, Ciqual, BLS, Frida, and more). Unlike a single-source table, every value reports how many sources contributed, which ones, and the per-source spread — so the number can be cited rather than asserted. Covers Indian foods from IFCT 2017, which is not available as an API elsewhere. Accepts a slug ("bitter-gourd") or a plain or regional name ("karela", "chickoo").
nutrient
nutrient_ranking
Rank whole plant foods by how much of a nutrient they provide per 100 g — the "highest in vitamin C / iron / calcium" question, answered from reconciled multi-source data rather than one national table. Optionally filter by food category. Each result reports how many sources backed the value, so thinly-sourced outliers can be spotted or excluded via min_sources.
recipe
get_recipe
Get one Heathy recipe in full: ingredients with their food slugs and gram weights, method, per-serving nutrition, allergens and carbon footprint. All recipes are original, strictly raw / no-cook and vegan. The nutrition is computed from the ingredient food rows rather than entered by hand, so each figure traces back to the national datasets lookup_food cites. Accepts a slug or the recipe name; use search_recipes to find one.
recipes
search_recipes
Find raw / no-cook vegan recipes on Heathy by free text, health goal, category, ingredient, time or allergen. Every recipe is original and its per-serving nutrition is computed from the same food rows lookup_food returns, so figures are checkable rather than asserted. Returns ranked summaries — call get_recipe with a slug for ingredients, method and full nutrition. For "what should I eat for X" questions, prefer health_topic first: it says what the evidence actually supports for a goal or a named condition.

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Nutrition — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Nutrition do?
It exposes 8 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_claim, get_recipe, health_topic, herb_monograph, lookup_food, nutrient_ranking and 2 more. 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 Nutrition working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 493 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Nutrition?
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 Nutrition need an API key?
No. Nutrition completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 8 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Nutrition?
It answers our handshake in 493 ms on average, which is faster than 29% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Nutrition open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Dockerfile and 0 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.