Yuka
4.8
Yuka transforms the shopping experience for consumers, offering them complete transparency of their day to day purchases. Simply scan a barcode, and the intuitive app interprets complex ingredient lists into a color-coded scoring system – making it easy for you to know the impact of the food on your plate, and that on your skin. The health and quality of foods are judged based on nutrition, additives, organic properties and whether they are organic, while cosmetics are assessed on endocrine disruptors, carcinogens, and allergens. Highlight dangerous products and recommend safer alternatives: Yuka informs millions every day. As an independent app, without the influence of brands, companies, or manufacturers, Yuka’s analysis can be trusted to offer a significantly healthier lifestyle.
Highlights
Instant Barcode Scanning
Instantly scan any barcode with the smartphone camera to retrieve comprehensive product details, ingredient lists and an overall health rating of that product.
Health Impact Scoring
A simple and visual 100-point color scale evaluates all products’ health impact – food and cosmetic – making even the most complex nutritional data readily accessible.
Healthier Product Alternatives
If a product fails its health test, Yuka automatically suggest better, healthier and equally affordable alternatives that are available at nearby stores.
Independent and Unbiased Analysis
Because no brands, companies, or manufacturer pays Yuka to feature products, they are completely independent and objective. Its health and quality rating system are the result of scientific research alone.
Detailed Ingredient Breakdown
Receive a detailed and medically sourced explanation for each and every ingredient, revealing all current studies on health risks associated with allergens, toxic chemical compounds or damaging artificial preservatives.
