# Recipe, nutrition and meal planning APIs for AI agents (slim)

> 8 cooking, recipes & meal planning listings ranked by the Anchor benchmark. Leader LogMeal (D). APIs that find recipes by ingredient and diet, give the nutrition of a dish or a photographed meal, plan a week of meals around a pantry and a budget, and turn the plan into a shopping list or a grocery order. Compared on recipe and nutrition coverage, diet filters, whether a plan can be written back, the licence on recipe text and what the free tier allows.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/cooking.md (~2,900 tokens) · this version ~480 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/cooking.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/cooking
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · MCP: https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp · Updated: 2026-11-03
- Licence: CC BY 4.0, credit Anchor Terminal and link this page (https://www.anchorterminal.com/terms/#data)

- Tools: 8 · agent-ready (BB+): 0 · accept x402: 0 · JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools.json · by capability: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/capabilities.json
- Capabilities: cooking.recipes, cooking.nutrition, cooking.meal-plans, cooking.pantry, cooking.grocery, cooking.food-recognition

| # | Tool | Grade | Score | Confidence | x402 | Auth | Where | Slim |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1045 | LogMeal | D | 49.1 | medium | no | API key | local | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/logmeal.min.md |
| 1048 | spoonacular | D | 49 | medium | no | API key | local | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/spoonacular.min.md |
| 1067 | Instacart Developer Platform API + MCP | D | 48.5 | medium | no | API key | hosted | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/instacart.min.md |
| 1129 | Eat This Much Partner API | E | 45.7 | medium | no | API key | local | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/eat-this-much.min.md |
| 1187 | Edamam | E | 42.2 | low | no | API key | hosted | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/edamam.min.md |
| 1193 | fatsecret Platform API | E | 42 | medium | no | OAuth | local | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/fatsecret.min.md |
| 1231 | MealMe API | E | 38.4 | medium | no | API key | local | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mealme.min.md |
| 1259 | Nutritionix API | F | 33.6 | low | no | API key | local | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nutritionix.min.md |