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.
{
"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.
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.
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.
Measured Score Breakdown
Live HTTP request to the API endpoint
Fully tested on Aug 10, 2026
Technical Specifications
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