Avocavo Nutrition API – Features

Everything you need, built for real-world use cases.

Core Endpoints

Ingredient Analysis

Parse any ingredient with USDA verification, confidence scoring, and automatic unit conversions.

POST /api/v2/nutrition/ingredient
{"ingredient": "2 cups cooked rice"}

Batch Processing

Analyze up to 50 ingredients at once with parallel workers and smart caching.

POST /api/v2/nutrition/batch
{"ingredients": ["1 apple", "2 bananas"]}

Recipe Analysis

Handle complex formats, ingredient groups, and serving-size scaling with full transparency.

POST /api/v2/nutrition/recipe
{"ingredients": [...], "servings": 4}

UPC / Barcode Search

Instantly retrieve nutrition, images, brand, and category data from Open Food Facts + USDA Branded Foods.

POST /api/v2/upc/ingredient
{"upc": "034000052004"}

Data Transparency & Accuracy

No black boxes. Every number is traceable.

USDA-First Approach

Foundation Foods, SR Legacy, FNDDS, and Branded Foods, all verified with real IDs.

Anti-Hallucination Technology

Bulletproof against fabricated values.

Confidence Scoring

Results ranked by USDA match quality.

Verification Links

Every response includes direct source URLs.

Performance & Reliability

Fast, scalable, and always available.

Sub-100ms Cached Responses

With Redis-backed smart caching.

Parallel Processing

Analyze entire batches in seconds.

Background Workers

For async tasks and large requests.

Real-Time Monitoring

Health checks, performance metrics, error handling.

Security & Authentication

Enterprise-grade protection out of the box.

Secure API Keys

with usage tracking.

X-API-Key: sk_live_abc123...

Tier-Based Rate Limiting

for fairness and scalability.

Audit Logging

with IP + user agent tracking.

Payment Integration

via Stripe with automated subscription management.

Developer Tools

We built this API for developers first.

Python SDK

Type hints, keyring integration, cross-platform.

pip install avocavo
import avocavo

Node.js CLI

Interactive commands, formatted output, secure key storage.

npm install -g avocavo
avocavo ingredient "2 eggs"

Global Installation

npm install -g avocavo ready.

Comprehensive Docs

Copy-paste examples, code snippets, and quickstart guides.

Quality & Validation

Your users get accurate data every time.

Consensus Validation

Multiple checks for accuracy.

Suspicious Data Detection

Catch impossible values (e.g. 0-calorie foods with macros).

Regression Prevention

Automated test suite across deployments.

Accuracy Monitoring

Live tracking of nutrition quality.

Why Avocavo

Real USDA Data

(not fabricated or estimated)

Full Transparency

(you see how every number was calculated)

Anti-Hallucination Protection

(no AI guesswork)

Sub-Second Responses

(at scale)

Developer-First Design

(SDKs, docs, CLI)

Always Available

(99.9% uptime SLA)

Ready to build with the most accurate nutrition API?