Query for muffins produces small number of results when including butter

Question

This query yields several results: /searchComplex?excludeIngredients=carrots&query=morning+glory+muffins

But this gives only one: /recipes/searchComplex?excludeIngredients=carrots&query=morning+glory+muffins&includeIngredients=butter

And plainly there are other recipes that might have been valid to include - by looking at the ingredient list for those that didn't come back we can find some, e.g.: /recipes/564538/analyzedInstructions

Shouldn't the inclusion of butter produce at least all the recipes from the first query that have butter as an ingredient?

David · Answer

Finally resolved, thanks again for reporting it.

clyon · Answer

Thanks! Not urgent. Just writing up issues as I come across them.

David · Answer

Seems like 5 results should be returned. If you use the natural language search ("morning glory muffins with butter" as query) and ignore all the other fields you get better results: https://spoonacular.com/morning+glory+muffins+with+butter

Of course, the way you queried should return the same 5 muffins, not only 3. I will look further into the issue but you can use that workaround above if you need a fix urgently.

David · Answer

I think your interpretation is correct, I'll investigate.

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Query for muffins produces small number of results when including butter