Coverage
What this API contains
Regulatory and technical knowledge about food substances, additives, identifiers, aliases, and purposes without medical advice.
ingredientsubstancealiasregulatory listingtechnical purpose
Endpoints
Built for direct use
/apis/ingredients · 1 credit/apis/ingredients/{id} · 1 credit/apis/ingredients/search · 1 credit/apis/ingredients/{id}/aliases · 1 credit
Standard list, search, detail, relationship, and conversion calls cost one credit. Bulk exports cost 100 credits.
Bounded preview
See the shape of the data
These are up to five fixed records from the current release. The preview has no paging, search, or export controls. A developer account and API key are required to query the full dataset.
Source record
Where the data comes from
Healthy
FDA Substances Added to Food Export
primary food-substance regulatory and technical-use inventory
- Last successful pull
- Aug 29, 2026 · 11:29 PM UTC
- License / terms
- U.S. government data with embedded FEMA, JECFA, CAS, and regulatory references; commercial review required
- Reuse review
- Commercial: review_required · Redistribution: review_required