Recipe API
Edamam Alternative: Recipe API with USDA-Mapped Nutrition
Feature Comparison
| Feature | YMove | Edamam Recipes |
|---|---|---|
| Recipe search by name/ingredient | ||
| Diet filtering (keto, vegan, paleo, etc.) | ||
| Cuisine filtering | ||
| Per-ingredient nutrition mapped to USDA | ||
| Per-serving full macros | ||
| Macro-target search (e.g. minProtein) | ||
| Recipe images (CDN-served) | ||
| Bundled with food database & barcode lookup | ||
| Bundled with exercise content | ||
| Single API key for nutrition + recipes | ||
| Starting price (recipes only) | $19/mo bundle | $40/mo |
| Bundle price (nutrition + recipes + exercise) | $19/mo | N/A |
Recipe search by name/ingredient
Diet filtering (keto, vegan, paleo, etc.)
Cuisine filtering
Per-ingredient nutrition mapped to USDA
Per-serving full macros
Macro-target search (e.g. minProtein)
Recipe images (CDN-served)
Bundled with food database & barcode lookup
Bundled with exercise content
Single API key for nutrition + recipes
Starting price (recipes only)
Bundle price (nutrition + recipes + exercise)
Why developers look for an Edamam alternative
Most apps that need recipe search also need a food database for free-form food logging, barcode scanning, and macro tracking. With Edamam, that means subscribing to two products (Recipe Search + Food Database, or Recipe Search + Nutrition Analysis), each with its own pricing and rate limits. The total cost and integration overhead are the most common reasons teams shop around.
YMove rolls recipes, food database, barcode lookup, AI food logging, and exercise content into one $19/mo plan with a single API key.
Recipe coverage and data shape
Edamam licenses recipes from a large network of food publishers and runs them through an in-house parser to produce structured ingredient data. Coverage is broad (hundreds of thousands of recipes) and per-recipe nutrition is reasonable.
YMove's recipe corpus is smaller and curated, with each ingredient mapped to a USDA FoodData Central row. That makes per-ingredient nutrition more consistent (no parser ambiguity) and lets you re-scale, swap ingredients, or render a clean nutrition label without follow-up calls. For an Edamam alternative on the nutrition side, see the dedicated comparison.
Endpoint mapping
# Edamam: search recipes
GET /search?q=chicken&diet=high-protein (Recipe Search API)
# YMove: equivalent
GET /api/v2/recipes/search?query=chicken&diet=high_protein
# Edamam: recipe details (re-fetch by URI)
GET /search?r=URI
# YMove: recipe details by slug
GET /api/v2/recipes/{slug}When Edamam still wins
Edamam wins on raw recipe count and breadth. If your product needs to surface hundreds of thousands of cooking blog recipes, Edamam has the licensing in place. YMove wins on per-ingredient nutrition fidelity, bundled pricing, and shipping recipe + nutrition + exercise content under one key.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is YMove a drop-in Edamam Recipe Search alternative?
Endpoint shapes are similar (recipe search by query/diet/cuisine, recipe details by ID/slug). Field names differ but the response shape is parallel. Most teams swap in under a day.
How many recipes does YMove have vs Edamam?
Edamam has hundreds of thousands of recipes via licensed publisher feeds. YMove's recipe set is smaller and curated, with focus on protein-forward, modernized classics, and cuisine-tagged dishes that have clean USDA-mapped nutrition. Volume is not the differentiator; nutrition fidelity and bundling are.
Does YMove have the same diet filters as Edamam?
Yes. high_protein, keto, vegan, paleo, vegetarian, mediterranean, and the common diet/cuisine slugs are supported on /api/v2/recipes/search. The full list is exposed via /api/v2/recipes/diets and /api/v2/recipes/meal-types.
Can I get nutrition per ingredient like Edamam?
Yes. /api/v2/recipes/{slug} returns each ingredient with quantity, unit, and per-ingredient calories/protein/carbs/fat from a mapped USDA food row. Edamam returns parser-derived nutrition per ingredient; YMove returns it from a USDA reference row, which is more consistent across recipes.
Are recipe images included?
Yes. Every YMove recipe has an imageUrl served from Bunny CDN with on-the-fly resize, format conversion, and quality control. Pass ?width=400&format=auto&quality=80 to keep thumbnails small.
How does pricing compare?
Edamam Recipe Search starts at $40/mo and is separate from their nutrition and food database products. YMove bundles recipes, nutrition, food database, barcode lookup, AI food logging, and exercise content for $19/mo total.
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