Meals, intake & food log

Analyze meals and recipes, assess intake against dietary reference intakes, and keep a food diary.

Routes in this category

• GET /favorites - List a user's favorites (API key, rate-limited)
• POST /favorites - Save a favorite (API key, rate-limited, idempotent)
• DELETE /favorites - Remove a favorite (API key, rate-limited)
• GET /history - Recently viewed, most recent first (API key, rate-limited)
• POST /history - Log a view (API key, rate-limited, opt-in)
• GET /log - List nutrition diary entries (API key, opt-in identity)
• POST /log - Log a food diary entry
• GET /log/{id} - Get a food log entry by id
• DELETE /log/{id} - Delete a food log entry
• GET /log/summary - Daily or weekly calorie totals for a user
• POST /recipes/calculate - Compute total and per-serving nutrition for a recipe (API key, rate-limited)
• POST /meals/analyze - Analyze a meal's macro split, food groups, and (optionally) targets (API key, rate-limited)
• POST /dietary-assessment - Dietary assessment - intake analysis, comparison with requirements, dietary gaps (API key, rate-limited)
• GET /dietary-assessment/reference - Assessable nutrients, status definitions, accepted input and method notes (API key)
• POST /micronutrients/assess - Micronutrient intake assessment against the DRI (API key)
• GET /micronutrients/reference - Micronutrients covered and the adequacy rules (API key)
• GET /micronutrients/requirements - Vitamin and mineral requirements by life stage (API key)
• POST /ingredients/parse - Parse free-text ingredients into structured items (API key, rate-limited)
• GET /dri - Look up EAR/RDA/AI/UL by life stage or age+sex
• POST /dri/compare - Compare an actual day's intake against a life stage's RDA/AI targets
• GET /dri/life-stages - List every DRI life-stage group

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• Energy & drug interactions - Energy requirements and known drug-nutrient interactions.
• Condition-specific nutrition - Calculators for diabetes and carbohydrate counting, kidney disease, pregnancy and lactation, children, sports and weight management.
• Clinical nutrition support - Critical care, burn, refeeding, enteral feeding and energy stress factor calculators.
• Research & epidemiology - Harmonise study data, analyse outcomes and surveys, audit data quality and export analysis-ready datasets.
• FHIR R4 - Stateless growth evaluation and the Nutrition Care Process as FHIR resources.
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• Keys & platform - API keys, developer keys, batching, health and metadata.
• More routes - Other documented routes.