NIH Dietary Supplement Label Database
HealthUSapi.ods.od.nih.gov
Full label data for dietary supplements sold in the United States, collected by the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements: product and brand names, UPC barcodes, serving sizes, supplement form, ingredient rows with quantities, UNII codes and percent daily values, label statements and claims, plus browsable brand and ingredient-group catalogues.
Capabilities (12)
GET /v1/data/dsld/brand-products1 creditReturns a paginated list of full label records whose brand name matches the query, with the total match count alongside the hits.
GET /v1/data/dsld/brands-by-keyword1 creditReturns a paginated list of brand names containing the keyword, one entry per matching label, with the total count of matches.
GET /v1/data/dsld/brands-by-letter1 creditReturns a paginated, alphabetically sorted list of brand names starting with the given letter, or with a digit when 'Other' is sent.
GET /v1/data/dsld/ingredient-groups-by-keyword1 creditReturns ingredient groups whose group name contains the keyword, each with its DSLD group id, category (vitamin, botanical, mineral and so on) and the full synonym list DSLD normalises label text against.
GET /v1/data/dsld/ingredient-groups-by-letter1 creditReturns ingredient groups whose name starts with the given letter, or with a digit when 'Other' is sent, each with its group id, category and synonyms.
GET /v1/data/dsld/ingredient-groups-by-synonym1 creditMatches the term against every synonym and alternate name of each ingredient group, not just the group name, returning the matching groups with their ids, categories and synonym lists.
GET /v1/data/dsld/label1 creditReturns one complete supplement label by its DSLD id: product and brand name, UPC/SKU, net contents, serving sizes, physical form, target groups, product type, every ingredient row with quantity, unit, percent daily value, UNII code, ingredient group and alternate forms, plus label statements, claims, contacts and the on/off market event dates.
GET /v1/data/dsld/products-by-keyword1 creditReturns a paginated list of labels whose product name contains the keyword, each hit carrying the product name, brand, serving sizes and physical form.
GET /v1/data/dsld/products-by-letter1 creditReturns a paginated, alphabetically sorted list of labels whose product name starts with the given letter, or with a digit when 'Other' is sent.
GET /v1/data/dsld/search-filter1 creditFull-text search across every field of every label, returning complete label records plus a stats block with the match count and the percentage of the database matched, narrowable by market status, entry year, product type, ingredient name or category, brand, target group, supplement form and claim type.
GET /v1/data/dsld/search-filter-histogram1 creditReturns a JSON array of yearly buckets counting how many labels matching the same search and filters were entered into DSLD in each year, each bucket giving the year, its epoch timestamp and the document count.
GET /v1/data/dsld/version1 creditReturns the running DSLD API version, its deployment config, the month the data snapshot was published and the Elasticsearch index names behind it.
Licence
DSLD API Guide, "Licensing": "DSLD data are in the public domain and they are not copyrighted. They are published under CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0). No permission is needed for their use, but we request that developers list DSLD as the source of the data, and when possible, notify us of the product that uses the data so we may better track how DSLD is being used in the public domain. The suggested citation is: National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements. Dietary Supplement Label Database, 2026. https://dsld.od.nih.gov/." The OpenAPI document served at https://api.ods.od.nih.gov/dsld/v9/ repeats the same licence: "CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) - https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/". The guide also states under "Gaining Access": "Anyone may access the DSLD API up to 1,000 API requests per hour per IP address."
https://dsld.od.nih.gov/api-guideAttribution
Display this wherever you show the data. It arrives on every response as provenance.attribution_text.
National Institutes of Health, Office of Dietary Supplements. Dietary Supplement Label Database. https://dsld.od.nih.gov/ (CC0 1.0 Universal)
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