# usda-mcp

> usda-mcp — asquarer02-usda-mcp. Use this tool when you need to access a reliable food database with precise macro calculations for nutrition planning and meal building. It solves problems related to dietary planning, nutrition fact lookup, and macro target calculation, providing outputs such as food lists, nutrition facts, and meal plans. It takes inputs like food names, diet types, and macro targets, and is ideal for offline use cases where AI or network connectivity is not available.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/asquarer02-usda-mcp  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/asquarer02-usda-mcp

## Description

An MCP server that provides a USDA-accurate food database with deterministic macro math, enabling tools like list_foods, get_food, calculate_macros, filter_by_diet, build_meal, and list_available_tags. It allows Claude to look up nutrition facts and solve for exact macro targets offline, without AI or network.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.70
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-08-29

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** database
- **Updated:** 2026-08-29

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Glama](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/b65dlvyh7w)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/Asquarer02/usda-mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "asquarer02-usda-mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/asquarer02-usda-mcp` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/asquarer02-usda-mcp/pull`

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