Analyze food photos or text for calories, macros, vitamins, minerals, and allergens.
If you already use Nutrients, the nutrients mcp server is the piece that lets your assistant work with it directly. Analyze food photos or text for calories, macros, vitamins, minerals, and allergens.
Give your AI assistant the ability to analyze food images and look up nutrition data for any food — calories, macros, vitamins, minerals, allergens, and dietary flags in under 1 second — powered by TastyAPI. Much faster and more accurate than Gemini and GPT-4 Vision (4-10 seconds).
The server ships on npm as nutrients-mcp, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
analyze_food_image — Fetches a food image from a public URL and returns a full nutritional breakdownanalyze_food — Returns a full nutritional breakdown for a food item by name or description. No image requiredConfiguration is passed through the environment: TASTYAPI_KEY, YOUR_API_KEY. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Nutrients's toolset — analyze_food_image, analyze_food — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by ericblair1903; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Nutrients's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| analyze_food_image | Fetches a food image from a public URL and returns a full nutritional breakdown. |
| analyze_food | Returns a full nutritional breakdown for a food item by name or description. No image required. |
{
"mcpServers": {
"nutrients": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "nutrients-mcp"],
"env": {
"TASTYAPI_KEY": "your-value",
"YOUR_API_KEY": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| TASTYAPI_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| YOUR_API_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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