Fruityvice API

Beginner's Pick Food & Drink / No Auth Required Beginner HTTPS
Free to Use
53 D
Measured Score 0 50 100 Speed 11/30 Consistency 20/20 Security 18/20 Browser access 0/15 Transparency 4/15 TESTED 2026-08-10

Overview

Fruityvice is a free, no-auth API that provides nutritional and botanical data for dozens of common fruits. You can look up a fruit by name and receive details like calories, carbohydrates, protein, and fat per 100 g. It is an ideal first API for beginners learning how to parse JSON responses.

Beginner Tip

Start with a well-known fruit name like "banana" or "apple" — the name must match the database exactly (lowercase singular) or you will get a 404.

Measurement Record

What actually happened when we called this API from our own infrastructure. Every value below was recorded by the request, not copied from the provider's documentation.

Request
GET https://www.fruityvice.com/api/fruit/banana
Result
HTTP 200 · application/json · 169 bytes
Response time
313 ms (median of 3) · fastest 310 ms
Transport
TLSv1.2 · ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 · certificate issued by Let's Encrypt
Browser CORS
No Access-Control-Allow-Origin header — call it from a server, not the browser
Served by
nginx/1.16.1
Recorded
2026-08-10

Fields Returned

Top-level fields present in the response we captured, with the type and value we actually received.

Field Type Value received
name string Banana
id integer 1
family string Musaceae
order string Zingiberales
genus string Musa
nutritions object {5 fields}

Captured Response

Captured from a real request to https://www.fruityvice.com/api/fruit/banana on 2026-08-10. Long arrays and nested objects are truncated to keep the shape readable.

JSON Response · Captured
{
  "name": "Banana",
  "id": 1,
  "family": "Musaceae",
  "order": "Zingiberales",
  "genus": "Musa",
  "nutritions": {
    "calories": 96,
    "fat": 0.2,
    "sugar": 17.2,
    "carbohydrates": 22,
    "protein": 1
  }
}

Field Reference

name Common English name of the fruit (e.g., "Banana").
id Unique numeric identifier for the fruit in the Fruityvice database.
family Botanical family the fruit belongs to (e.g., "Musaceae").
order Botanical order classification of the fruit.
genus Botanical genus of the fruit.
nutritions Nutritional values per 100 g including calories, fat, sugar, carbohydrates, and protein.

Implementation Example

Calls a real endpoint of this API. Replace any placeholder credentials with your own key.

Request
const url = "https://www.fruityvice.com/api/fruit/banana";
const response = await fetch(url);
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

What Can You Build?

Note: These code examples are AI-generated and unverified. Always refer to the official API documentation for accurate usage.

How This API Fails

We deliberately sent this API a broken request and recorded exactly what came back on 2026-08-10. Knowing the shape of an error before you hit it makes error handling much easier to write.

HTTP 404 Requesting a path that does not exist text/html

Returned an HTML error page rather than JSON — worth knowing if your client assumes every response can be parsed as JSON.

Common Errors & Troubleshooting

Generated guidance based on this API's documentation, not observed by us. Treat it as a starting point and check against the provider's own error reference.

404 Not Found The fruit name does not exist in the database or was spelled incorrectly.
Use lowercase singular English names (e.g., "strawberry" not "Strawberries"). Retrieve the full list first with GET /api/fruit/all.
Unexpected response shape Calling /api/fruit/all returns an array, while /api/fruit/{name} returns a single object — mixing them up causes parse errors.
Check whether you expect an array or an object and handle both shapes in your code.
CORS error in browser Fruityvice allows cross-origin requests but the server occasionally has downtime.
Add error handling around your fetch() call and display a friendly message if the request fails.

Measured Score Breakdown

Live HTTP request to the API endpoint

Speed 11/30
Consistency 20/20
Security 18/20
Browser access 0/15
Transparency 4/15
Endpoint Response Time 313ms

Fully tested on Aug 10, 2026

Technical Specifications

Auth No Auth
HTTPS REQUIRED
CORS UNKNOWN
Category Food & Drink
Difficulty Beginner
Endpoint last called: 2026-08-10

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