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ingredients

Food ingredient with nutritional information, category, measurement unit, and allergen data. Used for recipe management, meal planning, and dietary tracking applications.

🎯 Request Builder

https://api.mockly.codes/ingredients?page=1&limit=10&count=10
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Configure your request and click Send Request to see the response here.

Endpoints

GET/ingredients

Get a collection of ingredients

Alternative: /food/ingredients
GET/ingredients/:id

Get a single ingredient by ID

Alternative: /food/ingredients/:id
GET/ingredients/meta

Get resource metadata and schema

Alternative: /food/ingredients/meta
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How to Use Search

The search feature allows you to filter results by searching for text across all or specific fields. Choose between ?q= or ?search= parameter names.

1. Basic Search

Search across all text fields:

Basic Search
GET https://api.mockly.codes/ingredients?q=laptop

2. Search Specific Fields

Field-Specific Search
GET https://api.mockly.codes/ingredients?q=laptop&search_fields=name,description

💡 Pro Tips

  • •Search is case-insensitive and performs partial matching
  • •Without search_fields, all text fields are searched
  • •Combine with pagination to handle large result sets efficiently

Code Examples

JavaScript

Fetch Collection
// Get 10 ingredients
fetch('https://api.mockly.codes/ingredients?count=10')
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(data => console.log(data));

Python

Fetch with Requests
import requests

response = requests.get(
    'https://api.mockly.codes/ingredients?count=10'
)
data = response.json()

cURL

Command Line
curl "https://api.mockly.codes/ingredients?count=10"

Bypass Cache

Get Fresh Data
fetch('https://api.mockly.codes/ingredients?nocache=true')

Schema Properties

idinteger

Unique identifier for the ingredient

Gen:random_int
namestring

Name of the ingredient (e.g., flour, tomatoes, olive oil)

Gen:word
categorystring

Ingredient category (e.g., vegetables, grains, dairy, spices, proteins)

Gen:category
unitstring

Standard measurement unit (e.g., grams, cups, tablespoons, pieces)

Gen:word
caloriesinteger

Calories per standard unit of the ingredient

Gen:random_int
allergensarray

List of allergens present (e.g., gluten, dairy, nuts, eggs, soy)

Gen:tags

Query Parameters

countinteger

Number of items to return (default: 10, max: 100)

seedinteger

Seed for reproducible data generation

nocacheboolean

Bypass cache and generate fresh data on every request