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USDA Food Data Central

Look up nutrition facts and food data from the USDA database

Connects to USDA Food Data Central to search nutritional information, ingredients, and food composition data. Helps Muse users check nutrition facts, plan meals, track dietary needs, and understand food contents.

Try asking Muse: "What's the nutritional information for a cup of cooked broccoli?"

Working now?
Working
Worked last 7 days
100% of checks
How to get it
Extra setup
Account
No account needed
Price
Not stated

Source: Found in the official MCP Registry (io.github.pipeworx-io/usda-fdc) · First listed September 25, 2026

Last 24 hours

Each bar is one check, every 15 minutes. Green means it answered. Last checked 2 h ago.

Is it safe to connect?

What Muse can see: It does not ask you to sign in, so it cannot see your accounts. It only sees what Muse sends it from your request.

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How to add it to Muse

Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Copy the request below and paste it into Muse. Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.

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https://gateway.pipeworx.io/usda-fdc/mcp

Not in Muse's Connectors list yet. Muse can still use it: its page gives you a request to paste into Muse.

Technical details: safety screening, tools, response time and recent checks

Response time at the last check: 288ms. Worked in 100% of checks over 30 days.

Screening · September 25, 2026

Screened, no issues found

MCP handshake
Pass
Answered in 200ms
Domain against threat feeds (Cloudflare security DNS)
Pass
gateway.pipeworx.io, pipeworx.io not flagged
Published packages against the OSV malicious-package database
n/a
No npm or PyPI package published
Hidden instructions or invisible characters in tool text
n/a
Tools are behind sign-in
Inputs asking for passwords, card numbers or seed phrases
n/a
Tools are behind sign-in
Domain and redirects
Pass
No redirects off the domain
AI review of purpose and tool behavior
Pass
No concerns

Screening looks for known threats and hidden instructions at the time of the check, and runs again weekly and whenever the tool list changes. It cannot see the server's code, so only connect what you need and review what Muse asks to do. How screening works.

Tools

No tool catalog yet. It appears after the endpoint answers a tools/list probe.

Recent checks

2026-09-28 07:01:10live · HTTP 200288ms
2026-09-28 04:45:56live · HTTP 200538ms
2026-09-28 02:30:49live · HTTP 200257ms
2026-09-28 00:01:07live · HTTP 2001063ms
2026-09-27 21:46:00live · HTTP 200708ms
2026-09-27 19:30:50live · HTTP 2002102ms
2026-09-27 17:01:20live · HTTP 2002135ms
2026-09-27 15:01:39live · HTTP 2001718ms
2026-09-27 12:46:04live · HTTP 200464ms
2026-09-27 10:16:26live · HTTP 2002386ms
2026-09-27 08:01:56live · HTTP 2001603ms
2026-09-27 05:46:00live · HTTP 200206ms

Link

https://gateway.pipeworx.io/usda-fdc/mcp

Questions about USDA Food Data Central in Muse

How do I connect USDA Food Data Central to Muse?

Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Paste this into Muse: "Use USDA Food Data Central to help me. It is a free service with an MCP server at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/usda-fdc/mcp. It does not need an API key. Ask me before you share anything with it." Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.

Is USDA Food Data Central working right now?

At the last check (September 28, 2026, 07:01 UTC) the endpoint was working, answering in 288ms. Over the last 7 days it answered 100% of health checks. It is checked every 15 minutes.

Is USDA Food Data Central safe to connect to Muse?

It was screened on September 25, 2026 with the result "screened, no issues found". Screening checks the domain against threat feeds and reads the tools for hidden instructions and requests for passwords or card numbers. It cannot see the server's code, so grant only the access you need.

What can USDA Food Data Central do in Muse?

Look up nutrition facts and food data from the USDA database For example, you could ask Muse: "What's the nutritional information for a cup of cooked broccoli?"

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