Yuca: Food Label Scanner
Ingredient & Receipt Checker
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Most of the supermarket is ultra-processed. Scan a barcode or a whole receipt and
Yuca tells you how far in it is, and which exact ingredients put it there.
"Ultra-processed" is not printed on any packet. It is a conclusion you have to
draw from the ingredient list. Yuca is an ingredient checker that draws it
for you in about a second — from a barcode, a photo of the label, or a whole
till receipt.
Scan a barcode and you get the NOVA group, a processing intensity out of 100,
and the exact ingredients behind both — each one named, located in the list,
and explained in a sentence. Scan a receipt and the same verdict covers
everything you just bought.
WHY A NUMBER AND NOT JUST A LABEL
Nearly every packaged product on the shelf is NOVA group 4. Being told that
again is not useful when you are standing in an aisle holding two boxes.
Yuca scores how industrial a recipe actually is, so you can tell those two
boxes apart.
How is it different from other food scanners? Most tell you whether a product
is ultra-processed. Yuca scores how far in it is, names the exact
ingredients that put it there, and scores a whole receipt at once.
WHAT YOU GET
◆ NOVA group 1 to 4, worked out from the ingredient list
◆ Processing intensity out of 100 — the part other scanners do not have
◆ Every marker named: what it is, where it sat in the list, what it does
◆ Regulatory notes with the authority, the year and a link to the source
◆ Less-processed alternatives from the same aisle
◆ Receipt scanner: photograph a till receipt and see how much of the shop was
ultra-processed, line by line
◆ Clean shelves by supermarket: group 1 to 3 products from the chains you
actually shop at, filtered by diet and allergens
◆ Food label scanner: photograph the ingredient list when the barcode is not
in the database
◆ Ask questions about any product you scan
◆ History and saved products
HOW THE SCORE WORKS
A product is group 4 when its ingredient list contains a substance rarely used
in home cooking, or an additive whose only job is to make the product more
appealing — a colour, a flavouring, a sweetener, an emulsifier. This follows a
published method validated at 82.6% sensitivity and 76.8% specificity. Some
categories are ultra-processed by construction, and those are raised too, with
the category named as the reason.
Intensity counts how many markers there are, how heavily each weighs, how high
in the list they sit, how much of the list they make up, and how many different
industrial jobs the recipe needs done.
The whole method is written out inside the app, with its sources.
WHAT IT DOES NOT DO
It reads ingredient lists. It cannot see what is not declared, it cannot
measure a specific packet, and it is not a judgement about your health. Where
the data is thin, it says so instead of guessing.
Product data comes from Open Food Facts, an open database maintained by
volunteers.
PRICING
Yuca is a subscription with a 7-day free trial. Cancel before the trial
ends and you pay nothing.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/x-spacestudio
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Unwrapped is now Yuca: same app, new name. This update also fixes the keyboard staying open after a search, adds swap ideas for more products, and shows the price and renewal terms right next to the subscribe button.
The developer, Thuong Ngo, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Thuong Ngo
- Size
- 74.3 MB
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.5 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.5 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.4 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Yuca Pro $7.99
- Yuca Pro $49.99
- Yuca Pro $4.99
- Copyright
- Yuca © 2026