Usda MCP server
online · 100% uptimeSearch foods, compare nutrients, and look up the full USDA FoodData Central database.
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How Usda compares
Against every graded Databases MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 93/100
- higher than 96% of 802 Databases servers
- Uptime
- 100%
- of our recent checks; the typical remote Databases server answers 100%
- Response time
- 523 ms
- faster than 20% of 292 Databases servers
- GitHub stars
- 1
- more than 45% of 602 Databases servers
- Downloads a week
- 95
- more than 56% of 328 Databases servers with a package
Release history: 5 versions in the registry since 2026-09-16, latest 2026-10-26, typically one every 16 days.
Install Usda in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
claude mcp add --transport http usda-mcp-server https://usda.caseyjhand.com/mcp
What the publisher says
From the Usda repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
@cyanheads/usda-mcp-server Search foods, compare nutrients, and look up the full USDA FoodData Central database via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP. 5 Tools • 2 Resources
Public Hosted Server: https://usda.caseyjhand.com/mcp
Overview
USDA FoodData Central — the US government's authoritative food composition database, spanning roughly 400,000 foods across SR Legacy, Foundation, Survey (FNDDS), and Branded sources. Search foods by keyword or UPC, pull full nutrient profiles with portion scaling, and compare foods side by side from any MCP client. Runs as a stdio process, a local Streamable HTTP server, or the public hosted endpoint above.
Tools
Resources
All resource data is also reachable via tools. Use usdasearchfoods to discover FDC IDs before reading food resources.
Capability reference
usdasearchfoods tool
Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
Usda: common questions
- Is Usda MCP server safe?
- Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (93/100). Read the Usda safety report
- How do I install Usda?
- It runs remotely at usda.caseyjhand.com. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
- Does Usda need an API key?
- No secret keys are declared. It reads 9 settings from the environment.
- Is Usda maintained?
- The last commit was 43 days ago (2026-09-22). The latest release is v0.2.0.
- Is Usda up?
- 100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
- What can I use instead of Usda?
- Servers from other publishers that do the same job: CogniCore MCP server, DBHub MCP server and Neo4j Cypher MCP server.
- How does Usda compare with other Databases MCP servers?
- safety score 93/100 (higher than 96% of 802 Databases servers); uptime 100% (of our recent checks; the typical remote Databases server answers 100%); response time 523 ms (faster than 20% of 292 Databases servers). Full comparison.
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