What is Food-Recipe-MCP?
Food-Recipe-MCP is a MCP server by AIDataNordic that semantic search over Food.com recipes with hybrid dense and sparse retrieval and reranking, filterable by diet, cooking time and difficulty. It is listed under Other and has 1 GitHub stars.
| Type | Mcp server |
|---|---|
| Author | AIDataNordic |
| Repository | AIDataNordic/Food-Recipe-MCP |
| Popularity | 1 GitHub stars |
| Category | Other |
| Security | Low risk (84/100) |
| Rank | #3,685 of 4,418 MCP servers; #538 in Other |
| License | MIT |
| Last commit | 2026-07-14 |
| Runs | Cloud service |
| Language | Python |
| Platforms | macOS, Windows, Linux |
Is Food-Recipe-MCP safe to install?
Food-Recipe-MCP scores 84/100 on the MCPMods security check: Low risk. Things to review: sends your data to a cloud service. It passed 4 of 6 checks.
MCP server results come from listing signals: who publishes it, where your data goes and what it can do. The code itself is not scanned yet.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| Community-built server | Note |
| Sends your data to a cloud service | Review |
| No credentials mentioned | Pass |
| Read-only by description | Pass |
| No code execution | Pass |
| Source on GitHub | Pass |
How do I install Food-Recipe-MCP?
- Find the launch command. The README says how the server starts (npx, uvx, docker or a remote URL) and which API keys it needs.
https://github.com/AIDataNordic/Food-Recipe-MCP
- Add it to Claude Code. Replace the part after -- with the command from the README. Remote servers use --transport http with a URL.
claude mcp add food-recipe-mcp -- <command from README> claude mcp add --transport http food-recipe-mcp <server-url>
- Check it connected. This lists your MCP servers and their status.
claude mcp list
Or ask Claude to set it up
Paste this into Claude Code and it installs Food-Recipe-MCP for you:
Add the "Food-Recipe-MCP" MCP server from https://github.com/AIDataNordic/Food-Recipe-MCP to Claude Code. Read its README for the launch command and any API keys I need, run claude mcp add, then check that it connects.