A red apple with annotations showing Foodbe's four knowledge layers: science, technique, culture and history, and meaning

Teach your AI how to think about food.

Citation-grounded food knowledge your AI can query by the token. Every claim sourced and every answer written once in its own expert voice. All verified to prevent hallucinations. Used in production at foodbe.ai.

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Paste this into Claude, ChatGPT, Muse or any agent that can connect to a remote MCP server. No key and no sign-in are needed. Three tools work right away: foodbe_query, foodbe_query_all and foodbe_ingredient.

MCP server

https://foodbe-v3-production.up.railway.app/v1/mcp

Paste into your agent

Connect to the Foodbe MCP server at https://foodbe-v3-production.up.railway.app/v1/mcp. It is a remote MCP server over streamable HTTP and needs an API key sent in the x-foodbe-key header. Use the official MCP SDK, list the tools, test each one, and save the integration as a reusable skill so you can use Foodbe for cited food answers in future conversations. I will give you a free Foodbe API key. Send it in the x-foodbe-key header.

See the data

Same corpus. Four layers. One discipline.

{
entity: "apple",
thesis: "Apples deliver quercetin,
catechin, and chlorogenic acid —
polyphenols that reduce oxidative
stress — pectin feeds gut bacteria
and slows glucose absorption.",
neuro_anchors: [
"quercetin in apple skin reduces
LDL oxidation in cohort studies",
"pectin ferments to butyrate which
supports gut barrier integrity"
],
oracle_anchors: [
"apples originated in the Tian Shan
mountains of Kazakhstan — Malus
sieversii is the genomic ancestor
of all domestic varieties",
"Johnny Appleseed planted apples
for hard cider, not eating"
],
chefy_anchors: [
"Granny Smith holds texture best
for baking — high acid, firm cells",
"pair with aged cheddar — malic acid
cuts fat, glutamates amplify sweetness"
],
toneGates: { neuro: true, oracle: true,
chefy: true }
}
One apple, six layers. Multiply by 500 ingredients.

What's in the bundle

Layer 12,066 records

Cited Reasoning Corpus

  • ·865 question seeds across three reasoning lanes
  • ·500 ingredient profiles, 40 fields each
  • ·501 cultural food contexts
  • ·200 pesticide reference entries with chemical class
Layer 22,218 records

Technique Knowledge

  • ·1,169 Chefy keypool entries (12 cooking categories)
  • ·246 cultural technique entries
  • ·120 sauce technique entries
  • ·335 ingredient-to-enzyme biochemistry mappings
  • ·348 ingredient substitution mappings
Layer 32,331 records

Historical & Cultural Knowledge

  • ·1,751 Oracle keypool entries with regions, centuries, anchor people, events, documents
  • ·580 JSTOR citation routing anchors
  • ·JSTOR, Smithsonian, and .gov citations throughout
Layer 4674 records

Symbolic & Mythic Corpus

  • ·321 mythic-biological pairings
  • ·45 fully-narrated myths with three-lane tone seeds
  • ·98 ritual cuisines
  • ·210 ingredient-level technique and ritual anchors

Layer 4 cannot be scraped. It exists nowhere else.

Built on Gated Truth Architecture

Facts go in. A gate sits before every answer. Nothing is served without grounding.

Read how Gated Truth Architecture works

Buy tokens

Buy tokens to query the corpus through the API. Each call costs 1 to 10 tokens depending on the endpoint. Tokens never expire. After checkout, your API key and tokens are emailed to you.

Starter

$99
10,000 tokens

Growth

$299
50,000 tokens

Scale

$999
150,000 tokens

License the full corpus

For AI labs, CPG brands, ingredient suppliers, and food intelligence platforms.

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Buyer FAQ

What does one token buy?

One token buys one call to the simplest endpoints, query and ingredient. Larger endpoints cost more tokens per call.

What does each endpoint cost?

Tokens per call. Query: 1. Ingredient: 1. Compare: 2. Leftover: 2. Recipe: 3. Grocery: 3. Meal plan: 5. Instacart: 5. Cookbook: 10. Tokens come off only after a successful answer.

What do I get before I pay?

A free sandbox key with 5,000 tokens. Sign up at foodbe.ai/developers.

How do I get my key?

After checkout, your key is emailed to the address you entered, with your tokens already loaded. If you buy again, the new tokens are added to your existing key.

What happens at zero?

The API returns a 402 error. You get an email when you reach 20% left and another at zero.

Do tokens expire?

No. Tokens never expire.

About Foodbe

Foodbe uses hand-curated, citation-grounded food knowledge across four layers: Cited Reasoning, Technique, History and Culture, and Symbolic and Mythic. Built in Chicago. Used in production at foodbe.ai. Licensable to AI labs, CPG brands, ingredient suppliers, and food intelligence platforms.

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