Your Guide To The Yuka App

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What Is The Yuka App?

The Yuka app allows users to scan food and personal care product barcodes to evaluate their health impact, providing ratings and detailed information to help users make informed choices. Users also have the option to pay for premium version that as additional features.

How Does Scanning Product Work On The Yuka App?

  1. Open the Yuka app and scan the barcode of a food or personal care item.
  2. The app will the analyze the product’s ingredients and assign it a scared based on nutritional quality, presence of additives, and organic status (for food) or risk analysis of ingredients (for comestics).
  3. The app will then provide a rating (color-coded and detailed information about the product’s composition, including nutritional information, potential risk, and additives.

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How Does Yuka Rate Food And Cosmetic Products?

Yuka rates products on a scale of 0-100, with 0 being the least healthy and 100 being the healthiest. They rate these items based on nutritional quality, and additives, and for food, whether it’s organic, with a color-coded system (green, orange, red).

How Yuka Rates Food Products

  • Nutritional Quality (60%): Evaluates factors like calories, sugar, sodium, saturated fat, protein, fiber, and fruits/vegetables content using the Nutri-Score system.
  • Additives (30%): Assesses the presence and potential risks of additives, with hazardous additives potentially leading to a lower score.
  • Organic Dimension (10%): Considers whether the product is certified organic.
  • Color-coded System:
    • Excellent (75-100): Dark green.
    • Good (50-75): Light green.
    • Poor (20-50): Orange.
    • Bad (0-25): Red.
  • Alternative Recommendations: When a product scores poorly, the app suggests healthier alternatives.
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How Yuka Rates Cosmetic Products

  • Ingredient Analysis: Each ingredient is analyzed and assigned a risk level based on potential health or environmental impacts, such as endocrine disruption, carcinogenicity, allergens, irritants, and environmental pollution.
  • Risk Categories: Ingredients are classified into four risk categories: risk-free (green), low risk (yellow), moderate risk (orange), and hazardous (red).
  • Color-coded System:
    • Good: green.
    • Poor: Orange.
    • Bad: Red.

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| App Store | Google Play |

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