Recipe Nutrition Calculator MCP Server

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Recipe Nutrition Calculator is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 4 tools. Last commit 2 Nov 2026.

Recipe nutrition from ingredient lines: USDA FoodData Central values, per serving, FDA rounding.

Uptime history 9 hours of history

9 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

30 of 30 checks

Tools

read from the server

168 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 2 Nov 2026

Nothing serious here today

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

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.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add recipe-nutrition-calculator-mcp --transport http https://recipe-nutrition-calculator-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://recipe-nutrition-calculator-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.recipe-nutrition-calculator-mcp]
url = "https://recipe-nutrition-calculator-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "recipe-nutrition-calculator-mcp": {
      "url": "https://recipe-nutrition-calculator-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "recipe-nutrition-calculator-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://recipe-nutrition-calculator-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

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

calculate

calculate_recipe_nutrition

Parses ingredient lines ("2 cups flour", "1 stick butter" as 8 tbsp, "3 large eggs", "1 lb ground beef"), converts cups, spoons and counted items to grams with USDA household measure weights for that specific food, and sums USDA FoodData Central nutrients. Returns per-line grams and matches, recipe totals, per-serving values, and the per-serving values rounded by the FDA Nutrition Facts rules (21 CFR 101.9) with percent Daily Value. Lines it cannot match are listed, never guessed.

lookup

lookup_ingredient_nutrition

Returns USDA FoodData Central nutrient values per 100 g (calories, protein, total fat, saturated fat, carbohydrate, fiber, total sugars, sodium) for a common recipe ingredient, with its FDC id, the USDA household measures (1 cup, 1 tbsp, 1 large, 1 clove) in grams, and optionally the nutrients for an amount such as 1.5 cup or 3 large. 406 ingredients from SR Legacy and Foundation Foods, embedded, no API key. Use it instead of estimating nutrition from memory.

round

round_nutrition_label

Applies the FDA Nutrition Facts rounding rules from 21 CFR 101.9(c) to unrounded per-serving values: calories (under 5 = 0, nearest 5 up to 50, nearest 10 above), fat and saturated fat (nearest 0.5 g under 5 g), sodium (nearest 5 mg up to 140 mg, nearest 10 above), carbohydrate, fiber, sugars, added sugars and protein (nearest gram, "less than 1g" rules). Adds percent Daily Value from the 2,000-calorie DRVs (fat 78 g, saturated fat 20 g, sodium 2,300 mg, carbohydrate 275 g, fiber 28 g, added sugars 50 g). Rules copied from the eCFR text.

scale

scale_recipe_nutrition

Scales ingredient lines by a factor or from original to target servings (parses mixed numbers and fraction characters), then recomputes total and per-serving nutrition with USDA FoodData Central values and FDA label rounding for the scaled recipe.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://recipe-nutrition-calculator-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev/mcp	streamable-http	answering	262 ms	8 min ago

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Recipe Nutrition Calculator — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Recipe Nutrition Calculator do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: calculate_recipe_nutrition, lookup_ingredient_nutrition, round_nutrition_label, scale_recipe_nutrition. 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 Recipe Nutrition Calculator working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 30 of 30 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 168 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Recipe Nutrition Calculator?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Recipe Nutrition Calculator need an API key?

No. Recipe Nutrition Calculator completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Recipe Nutrition Calculator?

It answers our handshake in 168 ms on average, which is faster than 77% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Recipe Nutrition Calculator open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at recipe-nutrition-calculator-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev, which runs on its operator's own terms.