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Food & Nutrition MCP Server

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Food & Nutrition is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Food and nutrition data: search, macros, and comparisons

Uptime history 47 days of history · worst day 98%
47 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
440 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

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

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

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

Available tools 3

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

compare
compare_foods
Compare nutrition profiles of multiple foods side-by-side. Identifies winners by protein and calorie density.
food
search_food
Search USDA FoodData Central for foods by name. Returns nutrition macros for matching foods.
nutrition
get_nutrition
Get full nutrition profile for a specific food by USDA FDC ID. Returns macros, vitamins, and minerals.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://food.memoryapi.org/mcp streamable-http answering 405 ms 7 min ago

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Food & Nutrition — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Food & Nutrition do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_foods, get_nutrition, search_food. 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 & Nutrition 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 440 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Food & 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 Food & Nutrition need an API key?
No. Food & Nutrition completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Food & Nutrition?
It answers our handshake in 440 ms on average, which is faster than 34% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.