Issue Fetching Nutritional Info via /foods.get – Getting Empty Results

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Wasiq Shoaib

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Apr 13, 2025, 7:49:41 PMApr 13

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Hi everyone,

I’m integrating the FatSecret Platform API and running into an issue when calling the /foods.get endpoint using a valid food_id. The response is successful (HTTP 200), but the returned object is empty — no nutritional values or description included.

What I’ve checked:

✅ The food_id is valid and exists in the search result from /foods.search
✅ OAuth 1.0 signing is correct (other endpoints work fine)
✅ Using the correct app credentials and sandbox is disabled

This happens intermittently — sometimes the same food_id returns data, other times it’s blank. I even tested it while casually checking out menu marugame udon for a calorie estimate, and it gave me nothing back 😅

Has anyone experienced similar inconsistencies with this endpoint?
Is there a known limit, cache issue, or fallback condition I should be aware of?

Appreciate any guidance — happy to share headers or full request payload if needed.

Thanks!

seba...@fatsecret.com

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Apr 13, 2025, 7:52:37 PMApr 13

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Thanks for reaching out.

We are not aware of such behaviour and can't see any error logs.

Please reach out to our support team and specify your API key / ClientID and our team would be pleased to take a look