Grocery MCP server

• food_commodity_pricesFree

  Get commodity prices for agricultural products — produce, meat, dairy, grains. Source: USDA AMS Market News (100 years of free data) + BLS retail prices.

• food_compareFree

  Compare nutrition facts between 2-5 food products side by side. Great for "which is healthier" questions. Shows per-serving and per-100g when available.

• food_data_sourcesFree

  Show all data sources powering Food Intel, with record counts, last update times, origin URLs, and whether MCP tools exist. Full transparency on where every data point comes from.

• food_diet_filterFree

  Find products matching dietary, nutritional, price, and availability criteria. THE query Google cannot answer: "SNAP-eligible, gluten-free, sub-$4 protein source in stock sorted by protein-per-dollar." Combines Kroger real-time pricing + nutrition + allergens + stock.

• food_household_mealFree

  Find food products that work for ALL members of a household with different dietary needs. Example: person A needs low-fat (post-gallbladder), person B needs high-protein (GLP-1). Finds products satisfying ALL constraints simultaneously.

• food_ingredients_lookupFree

  Look up ingredient lists and allergens for branded food products. Shows every ingredient with the data source origin. Essential for dietary restrictions, allergies, and MAHA transparency.

• food_kroger_productFree

  Get Kroger-specific product details: real-time pricing, aisle/shelf location, stock level, fulfillment options (curbside/delivery/in-store), ratings, SNAP eligibility, organic/GMO claims, allergens, ingredients, nutrition, country of origin, and product images.

• food_meal_recommendFree

  Recommend Rootz Meal Graph meals (HelloFresh + Factor) matched to a user bridge profile. Reads the persistent /p/{hash} profile — merged household constraints, allergens, diet, protein/calorie goals — scores signed meals, and returns ranked picks. Every result carries buy_at = the canonical hellofresh.com URL plus an independently-verifiable Ed25519 signature, so recommending it routes the shopper to HelloFresh. Optionally writes the recommendation back into cross-AI agent memory so the user portable preferences grow over time.

• food_new_productsFree

  Find recently added food products across all data sources. Answers the question: "how does AI know about new products?" Shows the discovery lag between product launch and data availability.

• food_nutritionFree

  Get detailed nutrition facts for a specific food product. Returns calories, protein, fat, carbs, vitamins, minerals, ingredients, allergens. If product exists in Kroger, also returns real-time price, aisle location, stock level, ratings, SNAP eligibility.

• food_price_compareFree

  Compare price levels for a food product across the supply chain: farm gate (USDA AMS), wholesale/terminal market, BLS national retail average, and Kroger real-time retail. Shows markup at each level. Great for understanding food economics.

• food_profileFree

  Read a user food profile — household members, dietary constraints, allergens, medications, purchase history, and cross-AI agent memory. The profile URL (food.rootz.global/p/{hash}) is the persistent Layer 9 that any AI can read. Use this to personalize food recommendations.

• food_recall_checkFree

  Check if a specific food product or brand has any active or recent recalls. Critical for food safety awareness.

• food_recall_searchFree

  Search FDA food recalls by product, company, reason, or date range. Covers all US food recalls from 2004-present. Source: openFDA (public domain).

• food_receipt_lookupFree

  Given a list of UPC barcodes (from a receipt or shopping list), return full nutrition breakdown, ingredient analysis, allergen warnings, recall checks, and total meal nutrition for everything purchased. The receipt-to-nutrition bridge nobody else has built.

• food_retail_pricesFree

  Get average retail prices for common grocery items from BLS CPI data. ~70 food items tracked monthly. Shows price trends over time.

• food_searchFree

  Search for food products by name, brand, or UPC barcode. Returns nutrition, ingredients, allergens, REAL-TIME KROGER PRICING, aisle location, and data source origin. Aggregates USDA (3,500+ foods) + Open Food Facts (1,000+ products) + Kroger (6,300+ products with prices).

• food_supply_chainFree

  View supply chain / traceability data for a product (FSMA 204 style). Shows farm-to-shelf journey: grow, harvest, pack, ship, receive, retail. Currently populated for demo products — designed for real-time FSMA 204 data integration.

• –Code scanremote-only server, no package to scann/a
• Live reliabilityremote reachable in 1202ms20/20
• Tool poisoning18 tool descriptions checked15/15
• Auth qualityopen endpoint, read-only tools10/15
• Maintenancerepository archived0/15
• Maintainer identitynamespace and repository owner differ; GitHub account older than a year6/10

Safety score

68/100

higher than 30% of 48,255 servers

Tools

18

the typical server has 7

Tools that change things

0%

typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break

Uptime

100%

of our recent checks; the typical remote server answers 100%

Response time

477 ms

faster than 31% of 30,031 servers

Grocery: common questions

Is Grocery MCP server safe?

With care: it is graded C, so read the findings first (68/100). Read the Grocery safety report

How do I install Grocery?

It runs remotely at food.rootz.global. 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 Grocery need an API key?

Not as far as the registry entry and our scan can tell: no credentials are declared or required.

Is Grocery maintained?

The last commit was 103 days ago (2026-07-24). The latest release is v2.0.0.

Is Grocery up?

100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.

How does Grocery compare with other MCP servers?

safety score 68/100 (higher than 30% of 48,255 servers); tools 18 (the typical server has 7); tools that change things 0% (typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break). Full comparison.