Nutritionix MCP Server

This is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for integrating with the Nutritionix API, enabling AI agents to access food search, nutrition data, and exercise calorie estimates via natural language…

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What is the Nutritionix MCP Server?

Nutritionix MCP Server is an MCP project maintained in the mcp-forge/nutritionix-mcp-server repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “This is an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for integrating with the Nutritionix API, enabling AI agents to access food search, nutrition data, and exercise…”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.

Installation

The documented pypi package is nutritionix-mcp-server. The configuration below comes from the maintainer’s example; adapt its paths and account values to your environment.

Source

Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.

How to install the Nutritionix MCP Server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nutritionix-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "nutritionix-mcp-server",
        "--app-id",
        "YOUR APP ID",
        "--app-key",
        "YOUR APP KEY"
      ]
    }
  }
}

From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.