Introduction and Review

Worried about the ingredients of the product you use and the food you eat but don’t know how to confirm? Yuka is your one-stop solution for you to quickly learn the impact of certain food and products on your health and make your purchase safer than ever before. As a food and cosmetic scanner app, Yuka aims to help users to find and eat healthy products. Developed by Yuca and ranking the 1st in applications for health and fitness, Yuka has so far been rated 4.8 stars out of 5 by 33k users all around the globe on App Store. On Google Play, the app has received an average rating score of 4.7 stars out of 5 together with 99.7k reviews and more than 10 million installments. So far, the app has a massive group of users, reaching 30 million in total. The app has been selected as the editors’ choice and is quite popular and well-received among both iOS and Android users worldwide. Therefore, the app has quite impressive app store performance and has achieved great success. The app is free of charge and users can simply install the app on their mobile devices without any cost. Yet, in-app purchases are also offered to customers so they to select exclusive and premium features of the app. So how to use this app? You can simply scan the barcode of the product you want to buy and the detailed description of the product's impact on your health will be instantly shown on the screen. You can learn about each product by reading those analyses and making a wiser choice in shopping. What’s more, if you find the impact of the product is negative, you can also check out the recommended alternative products by Yuka which is much healthier, and make reference to them. To make you assured, all the reviews and recommendations are based on objective analysis and the whole project is independent. In other words, Yuka does not cooperate with any brand or manufacturer to promote its products. Therefore, you will see no in-app ads and you can rest assured that all the information offered is unbiased and based on the fact. Yuka features a huge database in which 2 million food products, as well as 1 million cosmetic products, are included. And all those products are evaluated based on three major criteria, including the organic aspect, the quality of the nutrition, and the additive presence. All the ingredients are analyzed in detail and users can review their risk level of them supported by the most updated scientific data. To sum up, Yuka is amazingly helpful for users to make reference to when going shopping and it will help them to avoid many frustrating situations. Yet, the analysis on certain products like ice cream is viewed by some users as misleading because they think ice cream does contain nutrition and the risk is not that high.

Updates

The version history of Yuka on the App Store suggests that the app has been updated quite regularly, basically twice a month. Its most updated record was on March 24th, 2023. During this update, version 4.27 was launched and some bugs were fixed together with performance improvements.

Features

1. Yuka is supported by an independent project, which means all the information and data offered on the app are based on fact and no ads will be displayed on the app.

2. Users can quickly learn about the health impact of the products by scanning the barcodes.

3. For situations with negative impacts, healthier alternatives will be recommended.

4. Yuka has a product database containing two million food products and one million products of cosmetics.