Edamam structures and organizes food and nutrition data and sells it to businesses in the food, health and wellness sectors, helping build applications for food logging, personalized meal recommendations, and nutrition data lookup. The company sells subscriptions to the data via API or as licensed datasets.

Clients include Nestle, Amazon, Food Network, New York Times, Microsoft, Barilla, Virta Health, FoodSmart, and many more. Edamam also has close to 100,000 developers signed up to its APIs.

Edamam has built the largest and deepest dataset of food and nutrition data in the world with over 5 million recipes and 1 million foods, analyzed and tagged for 150+ nutrients, 40+ diets including all allergens, and 200+ chronic conditions, as well as cuisine, meal type, dish type, CO2 impact, glycemic index, etc.

Edamam offers breadth, depth and accuracy of food and nutrition data that are not available and are expensive to build internally. Because of the breadth and depth, Edamam can offer significant granularity in creating meal personalization, which is hard to achieve with the few meals tagged for a few diets or nutrients normally found internally.

Edamam stands out from the competition in three areas:

• Breadth of data -- over 5 million recipes and 1 million foods
• Depth of Data -- each food and meal are analyzed and tagged for 170 nutrients, all allergens, 40+ diets and 200+ chronic conditions, as well as meal type, dish, type, cuisine, immunity response, glycemic index, etc.
• Accuracy -- Edamam's accuaracy matches that of an experienced human nutritionist

Some Edamam competitors have breadth, but no depth and accuracy, others offer accuracy but at a very high price point and no breadth.