Nutrition
Your agent guesses nutrition numbers; this returns real values from USDA and Open Food Facts.
Knowledge & Reference
Looks up nutritional information for foods, ingredients, and packaged products: calories, macronutrients, vitamins, and minerals. Works with food names, ingredient lists, and product barcodes, drawing on authoritative food databases for generic and branded items alike.
Use when
You need verified calorie, macro, or ingredient numbers for a food or a packaged product instead of guessing.
Not for
Personalized diet or medical advice, computing %DV or daily-value targets, summing a full dish across its ingredients, restaurant or menu items, or live food prices.
What you can do
Each is a sub-skill of Nutrition; the router picks the right one for your request.
What you get back
information
Returns structured nutrition data, which is candidate foods with their identifiers, a full nutrient profile with the measurement basis stated, or packaged-product facts with a quality grade. Not a downloadable file. Packaged-product data carries the credit "Open Food Facts".
When it checks with you first
The request gives only a bare brand or product name with no barcode and it is unclear whether to look up the generic food or a specific branded item.
Run it
Skills run through one gateway with your Faro token. Hand it an intent in plain language; Faro routes to the right sub-skill, runs it, and bills per call.
curl -X POST "https://skill.askfaro.com/skills/nutrition/run" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FARO_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"intent":{"prompt":"What foods come up when I search for \"greek yogurt\"?"}}'Example requests
- ›What foods come up when I search for "greek yogurt"?
- ›How many calories and how much protein is in 100g of raw spinach?
- ›What are the ingredients and nutrition facts for barcode 3017620422003?
- ›Show me popular breakfast cereals with a nutrition grade of A or B