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Japan Food DB MCP Server

dev.toriigate/food-db
answering

Japan Food DB is answering right now. Last checked 6 min ago. It exposes 2 tools. Last commit 2 Jul 2026.

Resolve Japanese food names to nutrition facts. All 2,538 foods from Japan's official tables.

Uptime history 39 hours of history
39 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
2
Tools
read from the server
241 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 2 Jul 2026

Connect this server

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

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.

food
search_food
Search Japanese foods by name (Japanese or romaji-free text). Returns candidates with nutrition per 100g, source, and disclaimer.
nutrition
get_nutrition
Get nutrition facts per 100g for a food ID returned by search_food.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://toriigate.dev/mcp/food-db streamable-http answering 260 ms 6 min ago

Japan Food DB — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Japan Food DB do?
It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: 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 Japan Food DB 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 241 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Japan Food DB?
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 Japan Food DB need an API key?
No. Japan Food DB 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 Japan Food DB?
It answers our handshake in 241 ms on average, which is faster than 54% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Japan Food DB open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript 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.