# UK Food Hygiene Rating Lookup

> UK Food Hygiene Rating Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from api.strale.io, paid per call via x402, $0.054001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Look up UK food hygiene ratings for businesses by name and optional location using the FSA API, returning ratings, scores, and addresses.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.strale.io/x402/food-safety-rating-uk
- Price: $0.054001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/api-strale-io-22cfc007
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_95hf05APRfLCdD5CEJIAB

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability api-strale-io-22cfc007
```

Example prompt: Can you check the food hygiene rating for Nando's in Manchester? Show me the rating, scores, and address — up to 3 results.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need official UK Food Standards Agency hygiene ratings for restaurants, takeaways, cafés, or any food-handling business in the UK. Ideal for compliance checks, consumer due diligence, or any workflow requiring verified FSA data. Prefer this over scraping food review sites when authoritative government hygiene scores are needed.

## Known failure modes

- No businesses found matching the given name and location — returns empty results
- FSA API unavailable or rate-limited — upstream service error
- Invalid or missing required 'name' parameter — returns validation error
- Too broad a search returning too many unfiltered results — use location or max_results to narrow down

## How this service works

Look up UK food hygiene ratings via the FSA API. Search by business name and optional location. Returns ratings, scores, addresses.

## Output

Returns one or more matching businesses with their FSA food hygiene rating (0-5 stars), breakdown scores (hygiene, structural, confidence in management), full address, and date of inspection.

## Example request

```json
{
 "name": "Nando's",
 "location": "Manchester",
 "max_results": 3
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "name"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "name": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "location": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "max_results": {
       "type": "integer"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

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