Yuka - Food & Cosmetic scanner 4+

Lost weight yahoo and great for cosmetics

I enjoy this app alot. Use it nearly every other day. One can see by how low down on the list of ingredients, in australia that is, how much the harmful ingredients is (as advised by the app sources) ie risky ingredients very low on the list has least impact so thats how i can decide if i want to take that risk as i may not be exposed to that ingredient in any other of my products. And since ive used it on grocery items i have lost 1.8kg by changing to similar products but safer for me. I havent done anything else in my life to lose the weight. This app is the only thing ive applied to my choices in products. Go for it. It can only benefit your life. Online products like gemma vendetta work well too. Great app

Developer Response ,

Thanks a lot for your comment, we are so happy that you like app and find it useful!

Interesting but deceptive

The information you show about products is useful, but boiling all that down to a single ‘health’ score is super deceptive and can be incredibly misleading. People will read into that score to mean what they want and not what it actually is telling them. You should instead encourage people to analyse each category and why it matters and why they may choose to consider or ignore it. Compare almond milk to oat milk for example: oat gets a much higher score so you’d think it’s ‘healthier’ and order your coffee. But it’s almost 5 times as calorie dense as almond which should be one of the major consideration for most. “Healthy” is so incredibly subjective and you take very few steps in this app to clarify what you mean by that. Also some of the issues you seem to have with certain additives have all of two over 10 year old citations. Is that even still relevant? What metric do you use to decide if something is worth mentioning or not?

You’re also using inconsistent measurements between products. I’ve seen kcal, kj, and cals used pretty interchangeably making it really difficult for anyone to accurately compare one product to another. You really should standardise all your metrics.

GET IT

i love yuka sm i was struggling with my skin and idk why until i scanned all the products and realised how bad they are. this is a true app like it’s ligit got good evidence for EVERYTHING i love it. i also scanned my body stuff (like my products ofc) and omgggg they were worse than my skincare 😭😭! i swapped to the recommendations that they recommended and after a week or so i noticed my body and skin improving i was so happy. i love the recommendations as well they’re soooo helpful.

ONE thing i would IMPROVE is the limitation if u don’t have the pro or whatever it’s called. u can do LOTS of things but i wanna do more and im broke so i cant pay so pls make less limitations if u don’t have it (ik yuka, u need to make money but pls 🙏🙏). its a lot better than lots of other app limitations for non pro ppl. like it’s nothing but i js want more yk

ONE thing i would ADD is where u can get the recommended products. that would be ALOT more useful and i’m lazy so

anyways love this app yall get it im not getting payed to say this i promise i js love it so yeah it’s free aswell so try it out 😙

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the love! Thrilled Yuka helped your skin & body care. Noted your feedback on limitations & product locations. We're always looking to improve. Stay tuned for updates!