Check out all of our restaurant listings on the Nutritionix restaurant directory. To suggest a restaurant to add to our directory, please contact us.
We are proud to announce the official launch of the Protein Bar Nutrition Calculator, powered by Nutritionix.
The Protein Bar partnered with Nutritionix in early 2012 to give their customers a comprehensive tool to help fully understand and manage the nutrition values in their food. The fully customizable Nutritionix calculator allows Protein Bar customers to see the exact information they need. Try it out!
The Protein Bar currently has five locations in the downtown Chicago area, boasting a menu full of healthy dining options including quinoa bowls, salads, blended drinks, and more.
Learn more about the Protein Bar at proteinbarchicago.com.
McAlister’s Deli serves up sandwiches, salads, and other dishes at over 300 locations in the United States. With hundreds of thousands of customers visiting their locations every week, McAlister’s needed to find a solution to streamline the way they manage and publish nutrition data to their valued customers.
In early 2012, McAlister’s partnered with Nutritionix to develop a comprehensive nutrition solution, with the goal of providing nutrition data to customers in a variety of methods to ensure that every customer could find an answer to specific dietary questions.
We are proud to announce that McAlister’s launched their Nutritionix-powered nutrition portal page yesterday, and in less than 24 hours over 1,000 customers had already used their nutrition calculator and interactive menu to help them make healthy dining choices. Check out the new McAlister’s Nutrition Portal!
For more information about McAlister’s Deli, or to find one of their 300 locations near you, please visit mcalistersdeli.com.
Nutritionix is a privately held company located in New York, NY. To contact Nutritionix, please visit nutritionix.com/contact.
Check out the latest restaurants that added to our nutrition directory this week.
Check out all of our restaurant listings on the Nutritionix restaurant directory. To suggest a restaurant to add to our directory, please contact us.
The International Food Information Council released their 2012 Food & Health Survey, which lists a number of important trends in consumer behavior regarding nutrition.
Key points from the survey results:
SOURCE: 2012 IFIC Food & Health Survey
ABOUT NUTRITIONIX
Nutritionix provides web-based software to restaurants and food manufacturers to help make nutrition information more accessible to consumers. Nutritionix also hosts the most accurate database of restaurant nutrition information, comprising of nutrition information for over 300 different restaurant concepts.
For more information about how Nutritionix can help your business, please contact us.
Glory Days Grill, a 21-location restaurant with locations in the Maryland/Virginia area, has officially launched their new state-of-the-art nutrition calculator, powered by Nutritionix.
To see the new calculator, visit the nutrition page on the Glory Days Grill website, or visit the calculator directly.
Glory Days Grill partnered with Nutritionix in April 2012 and created a comprehensive tool to help their valued customers easily access nutrition information. The fully customizable Nutritionix calculator enables Glory Days customers to see the exact information they need. Try it out!
ABOUT NUTRITIONIX
Nutritionix, a nutrition technology company established in 2009, provides best-in-class software solutions for restaurants and food manufacturers to help make nutrition information more accessible to consumers. Nutritionix also hosts the most accurate database of restaurant nutrition information, comprising of nutrition information for over 300 different restaurant concepts across the U.S.
For more information about how Nutritionix can help your business, please contact us.
Café Metro, the immensely popular NYC restaurant chain, has unveiled a brand new nutrition calculator to help health-conscious customers choose healthy meals at all 12 of their NYC locations.
With the goal of furthering their “Eat Well. Live Well” mission, Café Metro partnered with Nutritionix in 2012 to create a customized tool to help organize nutrition information in way that is easy for everyone to understand.
Café Metro has been recognized in many publications including Restaurant News, Crain’s New York Business, The New York Daily News, WNBC-TV and by the New York Post, who gave our sandwiches 3 Stars for outstanding taste, quality and freshness.
ABOUT NUTRITIONIX
Nutritionix, a nutrition technology company established in 2009, provides best-in-class software solutions for restaurants and food manufacturers to help make nutrition information more accessible to consumers. Nutritionix also hosts the most accurate database of restaurant nutrition information, comprising of nutrition information for over 350 different restaurant concepts across the U.S.
For more information about how Nutritionix can help your business, please contact us.
We are pleased to announced the official launch of the Chickpea nutrition portal, powered by Nutritionix.
With 8 locations and growing, Chickpea has established a well-recognized mantra to describe their famous NYC falafel: “always baked. never fried.” By using high-quality fresh ingredients, Chickpea is able to keep their menu flavorful without adding unnecessary fats.
Visit GetChickpea.com to learn more about the Chickpea brand, and check out their nutrition calculator as well.
ABOUT NUTRITIONIX
Nutritionix, a nutrition technology company established in 2009, provides web-based software solutions for restaurants and food manufacturers to help make nutrition information more accessible to consumers. Nutritionix also hosts the most accurate database of restaurant nutrition information, comprising of nutrition information for over 350 different restaurant concepts across the U.S.
For more information about how Nutritionix can help your business, please contact us.
We are pleased to announce that after months of negotiation with a private seller, Nutritionix has completed the acquisition of NutritionAPI.com for an undisclosed sum.
With this acquisition, we are also officially announcing our plan to open our international Nutrition API to developers worldwide in Q4 of 2012.
With a growing database of over 60,000 different verified food items from 5,000 different food brands, Nutritionix currently offers a public directory of searchable nutrition information for consumers.
WHAT MAKES NUTRITIONIX DIFFERENT?
In 2009, Nutritionix founders Matt Silverman and Daniel Zadoff noticed that app developers lack the resources to contact thousands of food brands to keep the nutrition information in their diet tracking apps up-to-date. To ensure the accuracy of information in our database, Nutritionix establishes a direct relationship with restaurants and food manufacturers.
Because over 33% of calories are consumed outside of the home, it is crucial for app developers to have access the constantly evolving nutrition data that restaurants release.
As of today, hundreds of restaurants and food manufacturers are able to seamlessly update their product information in the Nutritionix database, and this information will soon be instantly pushed out to millions of consumers every day via the Nutritionix developer network.
Developers can apply today for the API waiting list.
ABOUT NUTRITIONIX
Nutritionix, a nutrition technology company established in 2009, provides software solutions for restaurants and food manufacturers to help make their nutrition information more accessible to consumers. Nutritionix also hosts the most accurate database of restaurant nutrition information, comprising of nutrition information for over 60,000 different restaurant and consumer packaged foods.
For more information about how Nutritionix can help your business, please contact us.
Nutritionix was recently featured on the Food and Drink section of Forbes. The two page feature, written by Food+Tech Connect CEO Danielle Gould, outlines Nutritionix’s plan for making accurate nutrition data available to all developers by December 2012.
In the coming months, Nutritionix will be announcing more information about our upcoming API release, so stay tuned!
ABOUT NUTRITIONIX
Nutritionix, a nutrition technology company established in 2009, provides software solutions for restaurants and food manufacturers to help make their nutrition information more accessible to consumers. Nutritionix also hosts the most accurate database of restaurant nutrition information, comprising of nutrition information for over 60,000 different restaurant and consumer packaged foods.
For more information about how Nutritionix can help your business, please contact us.
Our development team has been hard at work to get the beta release of the Nutritionix API ready by November 30th, 2012.
We are also pleased to announce that our waiting list has surpassed 200 developers, eager to include accurate and up-to-date nutrition information in their diet and health applications.
If you are new to our API list, please fill out the new API Survey, which will help us continue to shape the API to the needs of our developer base.
More to come soon!
Check out all of our restaurant listings on the Nutritionix restaurant directory. To suggest a restaurant to add to our directory, please contact us.
Greetings developers! We have been hard at work pushing to launch the Nutritionix API as soon as possible, and we now have some more definite details to share with everyone.
API Beta Launch Date: December 31st, 2012
API Proxy/Management Service: 3Scale.net
Current Waiting List Sign-Up: nutritionix.com/api (Posted on September 10th, 2012)
# Developers: 200+
# Food Brands in API: ~4,000
# Items in API: ~60,000
Real-Time API Pricing:
Access to our real-time nutrition API is 100% FREE with the following conditions:
* With written persmission, data may be cached for historical diet tracking apps
Bulk Restaurant Data Export:
Currently, only our restaurant data is available to export in bulk data format.
To purchase a license for our bulk restaurant data export, please contact us at ENTERPRISE at nutritionix dot com.
The beta launch of the API will include three types of items:
The current public API fields we will be organizing are listed below.
Important Note: Not every item in the nutrition database will have every attribute available. If an attribute is not available for a particular item, it will return “NULL” from the API request for that attribute’s value. Please make sure your app properly handles a null request, and displays the information as “N/A” to the end user and not as zero.
| field-name | field-description |
|---|---|
| id | Nutritionix Unique ID for Item |
| item name | Item full name, such as Turkey Club Sandwich |
| brand_id | Nutritionix ID for Food Brand |
| brand_name | varchar, Full name of food brand |
| upc | integer |
| remote_db_key | foreign key for this item in a remote database |
| remote_db_id | id of the database that this item is sourced from |
| usda_nbd_no | null or integer |
| category_id | 1=appetizer,2=entree,3=side dish,4=dessert,5=beverage,6=modifier |
| allergen_contains_milk | boolean (true, false, null) |
| allergen_contains_eggs | boolean (true, false, null) |
| allergen_contains_fish | boolean (true, false, null) |
| allergen_contains_shellfish | boolean (true, false, null) |
| allergen_contains_tree_nuts | boolean (true, false, null) |
| allergen_contains_peanuts | boolean (true, false, null) |
| allergen_contains_wheat | boolean (true, false, null) |
| allergen_contains_soybeans | boolean (true, false, null) |
| allergen_contains_gluten | boolean (true, false, null) |
| allergen_contains_seeds | boolean (true, false, null) |
| allergen_contains_sulfites | boolean (true, false, null) |
| flag_gluten_free | boolean (true, false, null) |
| flag_vegan | boolean (true, false, null) |
| flag_vegetarian | boolean (true, false, null) |
| flag_pescatarian | boolean (true, false, null) |
| nf_serving_size_unit | If serving size is 1 cup, the unit would have a value of "cup" |
| nf_serving_size_qty | If serving size is 1 cup, the qty would have a value of "1" |
| nf_serving_weight_grams | If serving weight is 228g the value would be "228" |
| nf_servings_per_container | example: 2 |
| nf_calories | |
| nf_calories_from_fat | |
| nf_total_fat | |
| nf_saturated_fat | |
| nf_monounsaturated_fat | |
| nf_polyunsaturated_fat | |
| nf_trans_fatty_acid | |
| nf_cholesterol | |
| nf_sodium | |
| nf_total_carbohydrate | |
| nf_dietary_fiber | |
| nf_sugars | |
| nf_protein | |
| nf_vitamin_a_iu | Total IUs of vitamin A (5,000 IU is RDI) |
| nf_vitamin_a_dv | daily value percentage expressed as integer |
| nf_vitamin_c_mg | Total mgs of Vitamin C (60mg is RDI) |
| nf_vitamin_c_dv | daily value percentage expressed as integer |
| nf_calcium_mg | Total Mgs of Calcium (1,000mg is RDI) |
| nf_calcium_dv | daily value percentage expressed as integer |
| nf_iron_mg | Total mgs Iron (18mg is RDI) |
| nf_iron_dv | daily value percentage expressed as integer |
| import-id | Matches this row's data to the import it came from |
| timestamp_last_updated | |
| last_updated_user | |
| timestamp_created |
We are seeking five volunteers to help with testing, documentation, and bug tracking for our alpha stage API starting today. Before you apply, please note we require the following:
We want to thank everyone for their patience as we prepared to get the Nutritionix API ready for beta launch. Ready to dive right in?
Please note: While our beta API has now launched, please keep in mind that we are uploading new nutrition data, and improving our existing data every day. Please take time to post feature requests and vote on them to ensure we can rapidly improve our API for all developers.
Make sure you first have already filled out the developer survey. Note: If you received our e-mail announcing the beta launch, you have most likely already filled out the developer survey.
Visit our 3Scale page to apply for your API key. Please note, that only developers who have filled out the developer survey will be approved for the API key.
API KEY Signup: https://nutritionix.3scale.net/
Our documentation is still in a temporary format via Google Doc. Please view it here.
We are using Reddit to manage our feature requests and discussions. Please visit our subreddit and subscribe.
Introduce yourself on the Reddit forum, and meet your fellow nutrition developers!
Visit the Nutritionix public GitHub repo to get API library resources, and other cool scripts that help you interact with the Nutritionix API.
Anything not covered? Please post questions here.
We look forward to seeing your app!
It is not easy! Holding true to our mission of making nutrition information more accessible, we are releasing what we hope to be the first of many open-source tools to help developers and food brands share nutrition data.
Check out our project on GitHub:
https://github.com/nutritionix/nutrition-label
See a live demo of the jQuery Nutrition Label
The goals of the open nutrition label project are simple:
Some example uses of the open nutrition label include:
The possibilities are endless. We will continue improving the label, but we would love to hear your input and feature requests via the GitHub issues tracker.
As nutrition labeling standards are bound to change, it is important for any websites listing nutrition information to similarly adhere to new standards, and our open nutrition label project aims to improve that. With your help, we can rapidly improve the ways we display nutrition data on the web.
Founded in 2010, Nutritionix has a mission to make nutrition information more accessible. By partnering with restaurants and food manufacturers, Nutritionix provides a critical link between the companies creating nutrition information, and the consumers who need to access that data.
Nutritionix developed an API to let developers innovate with nutrition data. Check it out!
Since we launched our API v1.0 on January 1st, 2013, over 1,000 nutrition innovators have signed up. Thanks to the tremendous support and feedback, we are pleased to announce the launch of Nutritionix API v1.1. This release is jam-packed with new features:
We are continuously updating our food database, and we now include over 300,000 unique food items from restaurants, grocery stores, and the USDA. This includes data from over 15,000 different food brands!
We now officially support barcode scanning in v1.1. Users love the ability to scan food items from their mobile phone. Pass a UPC to our /ITEM endpoint and view the full nutrition panel and ingredient statement. We have over 230K UPCs, with more being added every day.
Advanced API querying allows you to filter nutrition results in any way imaginable. Run boolean queries, multi-field queries, wildcard searches, and much more. Check out the docs.
Our search endpoint keeps getting smarter. Pass a brand name in and we return all of the results from that brand. Check out an example search for McDonald’s. In addition, our search is now even more accurate for combination searches of brand name and item name. Try searching Kashi GoLean.
Due to popular demand, we now support IP filtering, which will allow your web app to utilize cross-origin resource sharing. This will allow you to create nutrition apps using client-side libraries such as JQuery or Backbone.js. To enable IP filtering, go to the access details section of your developer account.
Ready to get started? Jump into our API v1.1 documentation here: https://developer.nutritionix.com/docs/v1_1
Need any API key? Head on over to developer.nutritionix.com.
Have questions? Head over to the Developer Forum.
We understand the importance of innovation in the food industry. We also believe that with full access to our API of 300K+ foods, nutrition data, and UPC/barcodes, hackers can accomplish amazing innovations in nutrition.
The Future of Food Hackathon is happening this weekend in San Francisco. Any participants can e-mail us at api at nutritionix dot com to get free Enterprise access to our API for the duration of the weekend hackathon.
In addition, we will have engineering staff monitoring our support forum all day Saturday and Sunday from 9AM PST – 7PM PST.
1. Get an API key, and e-mail us (api at nutritionix dot com) to let us know you are a participant.
2. Check out our quick-start guide and documentation.
3. Bookmark our Support Forum link.
Enterprise API access will be activated for participants who have notified us at 10AM PST on Saturday 11/16/2013. Access will be downgraded back to our throttled plan at 9PM PST on Sunday 11/17/2013.
On Thursday, Feb. 27th 2014, the FDA formally proposed changes to the nutrition facts label. For 20 years, consumers have relied on the iconic nutrition label to view the nutrition information on over 500,000 grocery products in the U.S. What are the biggest changes?
The 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans states that intake of added sugar is too high in the U.S. population and should be reduced. The FDA proposes to include “added sugars” on the label to help consumers know how much sugar has been added to the product.
Update serving size requirements to reflect the amounts people currently eat.
Vitamin D is important for its role in bone health. Potassium is beneficial in lowering blood pressure. Vitamins A and C would no longer be required on the label, though manufacturers could declare them voluntarily.
Research has shown that the type of fat is more important than the amount of calories from fat.
Daily Values are used to calculate the Percent Daily Value on the label, which helps consumers understand the nutrition information in the context of a total daily diet.
To view the full list of proposed changes, see the FDA’s press release.
Nutritionix aggregates nutrition data for over 230,000 grocery products, and over 100,000 restaurant menu items. On average, over 1 Million consumers view Nutritionix data each month to research what they are eating.
The official Nutritionix iOS app is now available on the iOS app store. The app provides instant access our growing database of over 380,000 foods, including over 600 popular restaurant chains. The Nutritionix app is free for all users.
Visit below to download the app:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nutritionix-nutrition-database/id917647392
The new FDA restaurant menu labeling requirements have arrived. For your convenience, we are summarizing the 395 page FDA docket below and providing you with step-by-step instructions on how to comply!
All restaurants and similar retail food establishments with 20 or more locations. [See Complete List]
Although you are not required to comply until December 1st, 2015, you should start the process immediately. On average, it takes several months to compile all of the information necessary and to create new signage.
Nutritionix provides menu labeling consulting to over 60 national restaurant chains. To get a free consultation, please fill out the form below, or contact us at FDA@nutritionix.com.
Are you a restaurant operator? See below to learn more about compliance.
UPDATE 11:01AM EST Our available time slots have now filled up for this week. Please use the form below to be added to our consultation wait list. If you have an urgent inquiry, please email us at FDA@nutritionix.com.
UPDATE 2:23PM EST Below is an update to the list of regulations.
Danielle Colley, MS, RD
Director, Nutrition
fda@nutritionix.com
About Nutritionix:
Nutritionix is the world’s leading provider of interactive nutrition tools for restaurant chains. Our web-based management platform allows restaurants to instantly publish nutrition data to the web, mobile web, and digital menu boards. Nutritionix offers menu labeling consulting services to ensure your brand stays compliant. For more information, contact us via email at fda@nutritionix.com.
New Proposed Nutrition Label