The food-trend API nobody else has.
Mintel sees product launches. Spate sees social searches. Tastewise sees menus. None of them see whether a flavor trend is showing up in branded recipe content already running on the brand's own store. Recipe Pub does — plus Google search demand, food-press coverage, and recall and commodity signals.
{
"data": {
"topic": "hot-honey",
"category": "condiments",
"week_ending": "2026-05-24",
"score": 78.2,
"contributions": {
"search": 32.1,
"press": 21.3,
"network": 24.8
},
"evidence": {
"top_network_movers": [
{ "label": "hot honey",
"current_brand_count": 31,
"six_weeks_ago": 7,
"delta_brands": 24 }
]
}
}
}What's in the score
Each weekly score (0–100) is a composite of four independent layers. Every layer is exposed in the API — score, contributions, evidence — so you can see why a topic is moving, not just that it is.
Search demand
DataForSEO Google Trends across ~300 curated food keywords in 9 categories. Volume, week-over-week, 4-week baseline, lift — pre-computed.
Press coverage
Every headline from ~25 food-press outlets plus GDELT international, LLM-tagged for topic, entity, sentiment, mentioned brands and ingredients, audience fit.
First-party engagement
Recipe Kit's own data: which ingredients and cuisines specialty-food brands are leaning into this week, aggregated and anonymized. No other API has this layer.
Risk signals
FDA + USDA FSIS recalls (LLM-tagged by hazard and ingredient), FRED + BLS commodity anomalies. Surface as flags inside trend evidence; also queryable directly.
How it differs
If you're already paying for Mintel, Spate, or Tastewise, you know the gap. Their data ends where ours starts: none of them tell you whether a flavor trend is showing up in branded content that's already running. That's the difference between there is interest in hot honey and 31 specialty-food brands started publishing hot-honey recipes in the last six weeks.
If you're new to food-trend data, Recipe Pub is the fastest, cheapest way to triangulate three independent signals and one proprietary one. See pricing.
Operated by Recipe Kit
Recipe Pub is the API behind Recipe Kit, the Shopify app powering recipe content for specialty-food brands. The same engine writes Pantry Pulse, a weekly editorial brief. The newsletter and the API draw from the same data; they just speak to different readers.