Nutrition AI API
Convert food images into nutritional data with our Nutrition API. Boost engagement, simplify food logging, and support dietary goals in your app with a single food recognition API.
Integrate wearables data in both raw and normalized format
Receive real-time nutritional insights from photos, enhancing your app’s health tracking with precise data and personalized recommendations.
Recognize meals from any cuisine
Our AI is trained on thousands of international dishes. Whether your users eat locally or globally, get accurate nutrition data no matter what's on the plate.
Integrate AI food scanning & calorie tracking in just one day
Our developer-friendly nutritional value API is designed for quick and easy implementation. Save time and resources by adding instant food recognition and nutrition data to your app without complex setup or lengthy development cycles.
Connect nutrition data to any LLM through the Spike MCP server
Combine the Nutrition API with Spike MCP to connect nutritional data directly to your LLM of choice. Enable AI health coaches that understand meal composition alongside wearable, medical device, and lab report data for health data AI integration and personalized dietary insights.
Get detailed macro and micronutrient data from every meal
Our nutrition API returns detailed nutritional analysis, including calories, protein, carbs, fats, fiber, vitamins, and minerals for each food item recognized in the image. All data is returned in structured JSON format with consistent units, making it easy to build calorie counters, macro trackers, or specialized diet monitoring tools to enhance your app.
Spike enabled us to offer premium user experience to all of our users, and at the same time, be able to focus on the core parts of our business.
How it works
Deliver real-time nutrition analysis from food images with minimal integration effort. Book a demo to receive an access code and test the Nutrition Scanning AI on your phone.
Grow app's revenue
Enhance value for paid users and create an extra reason for free users to convert.
Increase user engagement
Drive higher user engagement and retention via instant nutritional insights.
Integrate in 1 day
Our API is designed for easy implementation, saving you development time and resources.
Worldwide cuisine friendly
Our AI is trained on thousands of meal datasets from around the world.
Scalable pricing
Usage-driven, transparent, and flexible — pricing that adapts to your business needs.
People are talking
Read our clients testimonials, focusing on measurable product improvements.
"Spike enabled us to offer a premium user experience to all of our users, and at the same time, be able to focus on the core parts of our business."
"It's the best support we have from any provider. We're integrated in Slack, and despite time zone changes, that hasn't become an issue."
"Spike gave us a huge shortcut. It would've taken months to get wearables working right — and even then, we'd still have to maintain them. Now we just build on top."
“Spike API enabled us to access and manage data from various wearables efficiently. The fact that Spike does not store user data was a crucial factor in our decision, ensuring our commitment to data privacy and security.“
"With Spike API, we’ve been able to integrate diverse wearable data, offering our users more precise and actionable insights. This has improved the accuracy of our training recommendations and user satisfaction."
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FAQs
Spike Nutrition API is an AI-powered food analysis API that converts food images into detailed nutritional data, including calories, macros, and micronutrients, helping developers add accurate meal tracking to their apps.
Our food Nutrition API is trained on thousands of international dishes, recognizing complex meals, drawing data from country-specific nutrition databases, making it perfect for global applications. It also supports translations to over 180 languages.
We had success stories where our clients implemented the nutritional value API in less than one day due to developer-friendly documentation and help from an assigned implementation engineer.
Our Nutrition API is designed for calorie counter apps, meal tracking platforms, fitness applications, wellness coaching tools, and any health-focused product that needs user-friendly food logging and nutritional analysis to enhance user engagement and deliver personalized nutrition insights.
Yes, the Nutrition API analyzes food images to estimate portion sizes and adjust nutritional values accordingly, providing accurate calorie and macro calculations.
After integrating the Spike Nutrition API, your users can upload a photo of any meal, which will be analyzed by our AI food recognition API, returning detailed nutritional value data and macronutrient breakdown. This enables you to build personalized nutrition features without the complexity of manual food logging.
Yes, the Spike Nutrition API delivers highly accurate calorie data and nutritional analysis by leveraging machine learning models trained on extensive food databases, making it ideal for calorie counter apps and fitness applications that require reliable nutritional information.
The food recognition API returns extensive data, including calories, protein, carbohydrates, fats, fiber, sugar, vitamins, and minerals for accurate nutrition tracking.
By eliminating manual food entry, Spike Nutrition API makes nutrition tracking effortless and instant, leading to higher user retention and engagement in health and wellness apps.
Our Nutrition API has flexible data retention policies, allowing developers to control how long media, URL, and analysis data are retained, ensuring compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, or internal data-handling policies.
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