The data layer beneath Mintberry.
Food Signals returns a canonical food entity for any string, barcode, or SKU. 1.87M products with structured ingredients, macros, micronutrients, additives, and processing scores. Strict JSON, MCP-native, every field cites its source. Drop straight in if you want to roll your own agent.
Full dev docs and SDK references will ship at docs.mintberry.ai — API reference, SDKs, MCP integration guide.
quickstart
Ship today.
Score today.
Three steps. No enterprise red tape, no kickoff call, no quote in your inbox a week later.
- 1
Request a production key
One field, one email. Production keys are
pk_live_— usually back to you the same day. - 2
Send a barcode
Or a name. Hit
/v1/signals/food. Get a strict JSON response back. - 3
Wire it up
Pure HTTP works. Native SDKs for TS, Python, Go. MCP server
pprmt/food-signalsfor agents.
open methodology · v1 · published spec
Published scoring. Recomputable from public inputs.
Three measures, three traditions of nutrition science — peer-reviewed, citable, recomputable. Returned as one JSON response with source links.
NOVA
processing · 1–4Industrial-processing class. Class 4 = ultra-processed. The most predictive single signal in nutrition science.
read methodology →Nutri-Score
grade · A–EFront-of-pack nutritional grade. Negatives (sugar, salt, fat) net against positives (fiber, protein, fruits).
read methodology →EWG
composite 1–10 + A–F flagsComposite score per product plus per-ingredient flags. Every flag links to FDA position, EFSA position, and the underlying study.
read methodology →posted pricing
Per request. No seats. No surprises.
Free until you ship. Linear when you do.
For nights, weekends, the side project that turns into something.
- Full catalog · 1.87M products
- Core fields · upgrade for full schema
- 10,000 requests · 1,000 unique products / mo
For production traffic, paid users, and the moment things actually work.
- Full catalog · 1.87M products
- Complete data · every field cited
- 50K unique products / mo included
- Drops to
$0.0004/ req over 5M / mo
For high-volume production with custom retention and a dedicated channel.
- Everything in Build
- >500K unique products / mo
- Custom data policies and SLAs
- Dedicated Slack · on-call support
Request a key.
No NDA, no procurement, no kickoff call. Full dev docs at docs.mintberry.ai.
