Daily Food Recalls API vs Foodish API

Two free Food & Drink APIs compared on access, reliability and developer ratings, using data from our daily health checks.

The verdict

Choose Daily Food Recalls API if its data fits your use case better; on access and reliability it's level with Foodish API.
Choose Foodish API if its data fits your use case better; on access and reliability it's level with Daily Food Recalls API.

	Daily Food Recalls API	Foodish API
What it does	U.S. FDA and USDA food recalls, merged and normalized, updated daily.	Random pictures of food dishes.
Provider	Daily Food Recalls	surhud004
API key	Not needed	Not needed
HTTPS	Yes	Yes
CORS (browser calls)	Yes	Yes
Status today	Online · 780 ms	Online · 676 ms
Uptime (30 days)	Up	Up
Developer rating	Not rated yet	Not rated yet
Price	Free / free tier	Free / free tier

U.S. FDA and USDA food recalls, merged and normalized, updated daily.

Free JSON API of current U.S. food recalls, merged and de-duplicated from FDA openFDA and USDA FSIS. No key required, CC BY 4.0 with attribution.

Strengths

Random pictures of food dishes.

A Node.js/Express.js REST API to GET a random picture of food dishes.

Strengths

Prototyping or a tutorial? Pick the one that needs no API key (both qualify).
Calling from a web page? You need CORS. Otherwise route requests through your own server or a serverless function.
Going to production? Favour HTTPS, a strong uptime record and a provider with clear rate limits and terms. Check each API's docs before you commit.
Still unsure? Both are free to try: send one request to each and compare the data you get back.

Neither needs an API key; you can call both straight away.