Why I Built the Most Complete Nutrition API (With 25+ Nutrients in the Free Tier)

Source: Dev.to

The Problem Every Health App Developer Faces

I’ve been building health and fitness applications for years, and I kept hitting the same wall:

Nutrition APIs either give you garbage data or charge premium prices for accuracy.

Most “free” nutrition APIs give you the basics—calories, protein, carbs, fat—and then hide everything else behind paywalls. Want vitamin B12? That’s $49 / month. Need iron content? Upgrade to Pro. Curious about selenium? Enterprise only.

But here’s the thing: people don’t just eat calories. They eat micronutrients. Athletes need sodium and potassium data. Pregnant women need folate tracking. Diabetics need fiber breakdowns.

So I built something different.

Introducing the Nutrition Tracker API

The world’s most complete nutrition API with full nutrient data on every tier—including free.

What Makes It Unique?

body = Map.of(jsonString, true);

✅ Correct

String payload = "{\"text\": \"100g apple\"}";
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
    .uri(URI.create("https://nutrition-tracker-api.p.rapidapi.com/v1/calculate/natural"))
    .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
    .POST(HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString(payload))
    .build();

📖 Full troubleshooting: Java SDK Troubleshooting

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📖 Full Documentation (link truncated in original; replace with the correct URL)

**https://ectsravi.github.io/nutrition-api-web/**

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