mcpbeat

Grocery MCP Server

by rootz-food
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Grocery is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 18 tools. Last commit 24 Jul 2026.

Signed US food & grocery data: Kroger prices, nutrition, allergens, recalls, diet filters.

The author archived this repository on GitHub, meaning it is no longer maintained.

Uptime history 55 hours of history · worst hour 75%
55 hours agonow
98.9%
Uptime 24h
90 of 91 checks
18
Tools
read from the server
415 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 24 Jul 2026

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 grocery --transport http https://food.rootz.global/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grocery": {
      "url": "https://food.rootz.global/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.grocery]
url = "https://food.rootz.global/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grocery": {
      "url": "https://food.rootz.global/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grocery": {
      "url": "https://food.rootz.global/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 18

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

food
food_commodity_prices
Get commodity prices for agricultural products — produce, meat, dairy, grains. Source: USDA AMS Market News (100 years of free data) + BLS retail prices.
food_compare
Compare nutrition facts between 2-5 food products side by side. Great for "which is healthier" questions. Shows per-serving and per-100g when available.
food_data_sources
Show all data sources powering Food Intel, with record counts, last update times, origin URLs, and whether MCP tools exist. Full transparency on where every data point comes from.
food_diet_filter
Find products matching dietary, nutritional, price, and availability criteria. THE query Google cannot answer: "SNAP-eligible, gluten-free, sub-$4 protein source in stock sorted by protein-per-dollar." Combines Kroger real-time pricing + nutrition + allergens + stock.
food_household_meal
Find food products that work for ALL members of a household with different dietary needs. Example: person A needs low-fat (post-gallbladder), person B needs high-protein (GLP-1). Finds products satisfying ALL constraints simultaneously.
food_ingredients_lookup
Look up ingredient lists and allergens for branded food products. Shows every ingredient with the data source origin. Essential for dietary restrictions, allergies, and MAHA transparency.
food_kroger_product
Get Kroger-specific product details: real-time pricing, aisle/shelf location, stock level, fulfillment options (curbside/delivery/in-store), ratings, SNAP eligibility, organic/GMO claims, allergens, ingredients, nutrition, country of origin, and product images.
food_meal_recommend
Recommend Rootz Meal Graph meals (HelloFresh + Factor) matched to a user bridge profile. Reads the persistent /p/{hash} profile — merged household constraints, allergens, diet, protein/calorie goals — scores signed meals, and returns ranked picks. Every result carries buy_at = the canonical hellofresh.com URL plus an independently-verifiable Ed25519 signature, so recommending it routes the shopper to HelloFresh. Optionally writes the recommendation back into cross-AI agent memory so the user portable preferences grow over time.
food_new_products
Find recently added food products across all data sources. Answers the question: "how does AI know about new products?" Shows the discovery lag between product launch and data availability.
food_nutrition
Get detailed nutrition facts for a specific food product. Returns calories, protein, fat, carbs, vitamins, minerals, ingredients, allergens. If product exists in Kroger, also returns real-time price, aisle location, stock level, ratings, SNAP eligibility.
food_price_compare
Compare price levels for a food product across the supply chain: farm gate (USDA AMS), wholesale/terminal market, BLS national retail average, and Kroger real-time retail. Shows markup at each level. Great for understanding food economics.
food_profile
Read a user food profile — household members, dietary constraints, allergens, medications, purchase history, and cross-AI agent memory. The profile URL (food.rootz.global/p/{hash}) is the persistent Layer 9 that any AI can read. Use this to personalize food recommendations.
food_recall_check
Check if a specific food product or brand has any active or recent recalls. Critical for food safety awareness.
food_recall_search
Search FDA food recalls by product, company, reason, or date range. Covers all US food recalls from 2004-present. Source: openFDA (public domain).
food_receipt_lookup
Given a list of UPC barcodes (from a receipt or shopping list), return full nutrition breakdown, ingredient analysis, allergen warnings, recall checks, and total meal nutrition for everything purchased. The receipt-to-nutrition bridge nobody else has built.
food_retail_prices
Get average retail prices for common grocery items from BLS CPI data. ~70 food items tracked monthly. Shows price trends over time.
food_search
Search for food products by name, brand, or UPC barcode. Returns nutrition, ingredients, allergens, REAL-TIME KROGER PRICING, aisle location, and data source origin. Aggregates USDA (3,500+ foods) + Open Food Facts (1,000+ products) + Kroger (6,300+ products with prices).
food_supply_chain
View supply chain / traceability data for a product (FSMA 204 style). Shows farm-to-shelf journey: grow, harvest, pack, ship, receive, retail. Currently populated for demo products — designed for real-time FSMA 204 data integration.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://food.rootz.global/mcp streamable-http answering 464 ms 7 min ago

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Grocery — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Grocery do?
It exposes 18 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: food_commodity_prices, food_compare, food_data_sources, food_diet_filter, food_household_meal, food_ingredients_lookup and 12 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 Grocery working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 90 of 91 checks got a reply (98.9%), average response time 415 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Is Grocery still maintained?
The author archived this repository on GitHub, meaning it is no longer maintained. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.
How do I connect Grocery?
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 Grocery need an API key?
No. Grocery completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 18 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Grocery?
It answers our handshake in 415 ms on average, which is faster than 33% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Grocery open source?
Yes — 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.