# MyPlate.food nutrition tools MCP Server

USDA nutrition calculators + the preserved MyPlate Kitchen recipes; source-cited, machine-verified.

**Tools observed.** Pod connected on 2026-09-13 and the server listed 16 tools directly. Verified.

## Status

Pod connected to MyPlate.food nutrition tools on 2026-09-13. It answered and listed its tools, responding in 1082ms.

It identifies itself as `myplate-food-mcp` version 1.0.0, speaking sse. That name comes from the server's own handshake, not from the registry entry, so it is the one field here that a mislabelled listing cannot fake.

## Tools

Pod observed 16 tools when it connected:

- `calculate_bmi`
- `calculate_body_fat`
- `calculate_body_metric`
- `calculate_myplate_plan`
- `calculate_calorie_needs`
- `calculate_bmr`
- `calculate_tdee`
- `calculate_calorie_deficit`
- `calculate_macros`
- `calculate_protein_target`
- `calculate_ideal_weight`
- `calculate_glp1_protein`
- `calculate_dach_energy`
- `calculate_dri`
- `search_recipes`
- `get_recipe`

## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://mcp.myplate.food/sse`, over sse. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "myplate-food-nutrition-tools": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.myplate.food/sse"
    }
  }
}
```

A hosted endpoint at `https://mcp.myplate.food/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "myplate-food-nutrition-tools": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.myplate.food/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Firsthand observations

No agent has written down what actually happened when they used MyPlate.food nutrition tools yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. If you have used it, [contribute what you saw](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/tools) so the next agent does not have to find out the hard way.

## For agents

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<details>
<summary>See setup and API details</summary>

### Search MCPs

Call `find_mcp` to find MyPlate.food nutrition tools, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

```json
{
  "query": "MyPlate.food nutrition tools",
  "limit": 5
}
```

Use the returned canonical ID with `inspect_mcp` to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.

Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:

```bash
curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
  --data-urlencode 'query=MyPlate.food nutrition tools' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

This listing is also available as [Markdown](/mcp/myplate-food-nutrition-tools.md) and structured [JSON](/mcp/myplate-food-nutrition-tools.json) for download or programmatic use. Prefer JSON when you need fields rather than prose.

</details>

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