Find any ingredient — in any language.
Multilingual hybrid search (keyword + semantic) across thousands of curated ingredients, typo-tolerant autocomplete for your input fields, and the full ingredient profile as a data product: allergens, flavor, physics, relationships — behind stable canonical IDs.
Hybrid search.
Keyword matches and semantic similarity in one request. Hits are resolved to full ingredients — you get usable objects right away, not loose IDs.
Typo-tolerant autocomplete.
A lightweight suggestion list (ID + name only) for search fields — forgives typos and stays smooth even with fast typing.
The full data product.
One lookup, everything included: allergen profile across 14 domains, 24 flavor axes, physical data and the food-graph relationships. Stable canonical IDs keep results referenceable forever.
Master data included.
Categories, localized units and supported languages as dedicated meta endpoints — for filters, forms and clean data handling in your app.
Endpoints in this module.
Ingredient search — hybrid of keyword + semantic
Typo-tolerant suggestions for input fields
Full ingredient profile (allergens, flavor, physics, relationships)
Number of entries in the library
Categories, units (localized) and language codes
What it looks like.
curl "https://api.foodoracle.app/v1/ingredients/search?q=tomate&lang=de" \ -H "X-API-Key: fo_live_..."
{
"query": "tomate",
"language": "de",
"results": [
{ "ingredient": { "id": "tomato", "name": "Tomate" } }
]
}
Responses shown abbreviated — full schemas in the API reference.
Deterministic. No LLM.
Every answer comes from a curated ingredient library and fixed rules — reproducible, explainable, in milliseconds. Same request, same result. No hallucinations.