Guideline tools

Daily water intake

Daily fluid target from body weight and activity, from a 31 to 40 mL/kg/day rule of thumb, compared with the U.S. DRI total-water reference.

Cites its source in every response: source (the formula + published reference) and canonical_url (https://myplate.food/water-intake-calculator), plus a disclaimer.

get/calculate/water-intake

Request

  • Base URL: https://myplate.food/api/v1
  • URL: https://myplate.food/api/v1/calculate/water-intake
  • Auth: none declared

Query parameters

unit'metric' | 'imperial'

Units for inputs and output. metric = cm/kg (default), imperial = in/lb.

weightnumber required

Weight (kg or lb).

activity'sedentary' | 'moderate' | 'active'

Activity level (default moderate).

Response

Calculation result with citation envelope.

calculatorstring required

The endpoint name.

inputsobject

The parsed, normalized inputs the result was computed from.

sourcestring required

The formula and published reference behind the number.

canonical_urlstring uri required

The matching myplate.food page.

disclaimerstring

Present on health calculators.

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.