Yuka - Food & Cosmetic scanner App Reviews

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Don’t buy this app. Do not buy this app. This app is very misleading and makes products and foods seem more or less dangerous than they actually are. This app relies on high amounts to base their answers on. For example, for skincare products, they base it on high concentration levels of the ingredients even though skincare products are legally not allowed to sell products with such high amounts of ingredients that can be toxic in high level consumption. To make that ingredient not toxic, brands only allow small amounts to make it safe for human consumption. This app doesn’t consider the exposure (the concentration of the ingredient). Many products are considered hazardous but are still safe to use. Thats because they’re only hazardous/harmful if used in high concentration, which are never used in cosmetics. And for foods, the app only rates foods on how caloric they are, not how good they are for humans. Many’s foods will be rated badly just because they are higher in calories, even if they’re natural and entirely better for humans. This is called fear mongering! Make better decisions instead of relying on an app to tell you what is “better”.

Thank you!. In eating plant based foods and fish, I thought I was doing pretty decent. Until I got this app. Yuka is a life saver!! I’ve been scanning everything in my house and I’m shocked! You cannot trust these companies to do right by you. I’ve been throwing stuff away left and right!! I had just gotten a heath scan and my gastrointestinal system is severely off balanced. No wonder!! A family member suggested Yuka the same day. I couldn’t be more grateful for this app. It was right on time. What I love about this app is it tells you why foods are bad and what harmful ingredients do to your body. That is overly appreciated! It also gives you recommendations for better products! I can only imagine the time it took to put all of this together. This here is your best defense against big name companies who care more about a dollar than your health. We are exposed to toxins more than ever now. I was so paranoid about buying food and Yuka has eased a lot of those fears and will assist me in getting my gut health back balanced! It’s definitely worth buying the app and for all the goodies, it’s super inexpensive. Thank you for putting this together! The greatest app yet!!

Amazing! But…. I think everyone should have this app. It makes it so much easier to read between the lines of all ingredients. Especially beauty products. I am a scientist and half the time I don’t even know what some of these ingredients are. When it comes to food, I think it is very eye opening to see that just because something is labeled as organic, non gmo, blah, blah… it doesn’t always have the best ingredients. Now to my complain. I don’t buy anything with corn syrup or added sugars. This i already know by heart after going for clean only foods about 10 years ago. However, for someone who is just starting to navigate this confusing world of food, it may be misleading to read that ice cream is rated as poor. Now, hear me out. This was my husband’s thinking when we scanned an ice cream brand at Sprouts. The rating was poor. It said it had high fat and high sugar. According to my husband, ice cream should be fatty and sugary. Can’t argue with that if we are talking about a standard ice cream recipe. In his eyes, there was nothing wrong with the ice cream. The app fails to indicate that the brand contains corn syrup. I think it should be broken down better. The rating is poor because it has high sugar content, but not just any sugar. It has corn syrup. I feel the developers should work more into explaining why a high sugar rating deems a product poor. Not everyone is well versed with the dangers of sugars, real or fake.

Absolutely LOVE this app.. This app is a game changer. I love that you can scan foods or cosmetics/beauty products and it will give you healthier options. I found out the majority of my high end cosmetics & hair and beauty products were actually awful and the healthier options are quite a bit cheaper. I love that you can search items as well instead of just having to scan if you get the membership. The membership fee is super affordable. You can personalize gluten/vegan/dairy options. It’s just an all around great app & definitely helps you make better choices. The only thing I wish it included were supplements. It’s honestly a relief feeling like you have a better understanding of what is actually in the things yourself as well as your children are consuming and they explain the chemical and what it does etc. I can’t love this app enough.

so helpful , buu definitely need to update !. I absolutely love this app , learning about all the different risks in cosmetics! I would’ve never knew .. buu sometimes it be weird like I scanned a product and then recommend a product that was excellent! then I bought that product scanned it to see what it would say then it said bad ? how you gonna recommend that “excellent “product then say it’s bad ? this app definitely need to review and update and maybe should put all the information of products it’s self ! definitely needs to gain control of the app. And another thing is you scan something n it’s like the totally opposite product, like I scanned facial toner and then it recommended got2 be hairspray ? Definitely needs to get ahold of the problems and maybe add why certain ingredients are poor or bad or risky ? Like okay this is poor buu why ? What don’t that poor ingredient do ? . BUT I MOST DEFINITELY RECOMMEND THIS APP!

Love this app - 1 missing piece. I’ve been using this app for a little while and I do enjoy it. It definitely brings knowledge to what health conscious ppl should avoid and why. The recommendations are very helpful as well. I think as long as the app updates and improves overtime it will be vital. One thing I did notice is that the app doesn’t notify for industrial seed oils. So I look for them in the ingredients on my own. But would be helpful to integrate this. The seed oils are in nearly everything packaged and one of the biggest reasons for built up inflammation in the body. Would like the app to consider adding a flag or notification for canola, corn, soybean oils etc. With that in mind, it’s going to be very difficult to remove entirely, especially in families with kids that have junk at school or grandma’s. It’s going to come down to more awareness from people to push back on these things to force companies to do better. All that said I do recommend this app. It’s a great tool in the fight against the terribly addictive & bad foods.

So Very Grateful For This App. I was blessed to run into a woman at my local Costco. She must have seen me laboring over the exhausting ingredient labels of the variety of items packed into my shopping cart. Due to the very concerning preservatives and additives as well as other unhealthy ingredients being added to the many foods families eat daily I have become diligent (even my 12 year old daughter is the same - We LOVE and appreciate this app so much!). So the woman shares the app and how much she loves it and for the same reasons (very thorough, huge time saver, etc) and shares how easy it is and took it immediately into action scanning am item loaded with additives and some Risky ones too so I immediately put that one back but since I’ve had the app I’ve become more educated and also saddened by what’s being allowed by the FDA, I’m so concerned. But huge thank you to Yuka Website and the app developers. Please keep doing what you do and ALWAYS no matter what keep your integrity 🙏😊♥️ I ended up doing the pro version for 1 year to support this wonderful work you’re doing. Thank you again!

I don’t see the value. Just about everything I scan has a very low rating from products in my home to things I randomly scan on shelves. You might as well just say everything is bad for you. It almost seems like this app tells you good things or gives higher ratings about products they want you to buy. I scan one aloe Vera gel that lists on its own bottle that it’s free from retinyl palmitate which is clearly a good thing, but the app recommends me another gel that says it does have retinyl palmitate and says it’s no risk and gives this gel a very good rating. Too many things just don’t add up Also, I tried adding an item that they didn’t know. Took time to type out all the ingredients listed, the product and brand for the app to tell me it couldn’t add it or give a rating. A product that has several ingredients that massive amounts of other products already on the app also have in them, yet, they couldn’t tell me if it was good, bad or otherwise 🤔. I’m not sure why this app has such a high rating

The rating system is horrible. This app is the worst, it will make you feel guilty for eating almost anything & the reason why makes absolutely no sense. In my opinion, it promotes eating disorders by the caloric content rating. A snack is meant to be 300 calories or less, but according to this, a 180 calorie protein bar is “too caloric” so they suggested a different kind, the other kind had half the amount of protein and 190 calories. How are you going to rate a food “bad” for having “too many calories” and then suggest an alternative that has even more calories and less health benefits. Also, a 180 calorie protein bar with 21 grams of protein is not “too caloric”. Also a lot of their sources on additives are not science backed like they claim, they claim a number of things are linked to cancer when they aren’t. They will promote some products as “good” when they’re in fact not, and then demonize others so that they can provide a suggestion. Highly suspicious that this is due to them being paid by those suggested companies, as they’re most of the time either equally as healthy or even worse. Please don’t download this app, the fact that they claim it’s science backed is a complete lie. If you find yourself using this app before buying food, look up the term orthorexia, because this is a sure fire way to get it.

Best app to come out!. This app is so useful a must have for everyone. This app has helped me improve my health by giving me alternatives to foods that contain harmful additives. I use to eat just about anything that is until I downloaded this app. It is crazy how many companies don’t care about the consumers health and will add just about any harmful additive, food dyes, and oils. Now every time I go grocery shopping I scan and know what brands to avoid and which to get. After downloading this app and sticking with my diet of healthy/ organic foods I have to say that I feel younger than my age! I am full of energy and best of all I’m taking care of my health being ! I highly encourage everyone to download this app and see the great benefits of eating healthy yourself. I also encourage those to support the creators and buy premium as they worked very hard and decided to give us this amazing application for free! Thank you Yuka

Best App for Health Information, Diets and Disease Prevention. I am a nursing school educator for almost 20 years. Nursing patient practice twice that long. Teaching illness disease prevention and healthy food choices is probably the one most important single important choices people make above medications, vaccines, health promotion you can use. The foods we eat, artificial additives and chemicals, processed high sugar content is the leading cause of cancers and cardiovascular stroke diabetes hypertension illnesses. And the choices you make to eat nutrition rich diets can give your incredible body support to fight illness naturally better than any supplements. Supplements can help but can never replace good food choices. Your body is a miracle of wonder when you support it with the nutrients to fix, heal, and defend yourself against illness disease bacteria and viruses!! Use this app time you shop and it will be the beginning of a longer healthy life.

Super Helpful!. I really enjoy utilizing this app when i’m at the grocery store and picking out the best option for myself. This app is very helpful in telling you why they rate an item negatively and positively and it’s so simple and straight to the point that I can use that rating to my own discretion. Whether I say no all together on that specific item and look through the app’s recommendations of a similar more positively rated item or want to read through and accept that “yeah maybe it is too sweet but oh well, as long as there aren’t any seed oils and additives… i’ll accept it,” it depends on my mood or the item i’m looking at entirely. I really appreciate this app and how simple and easy it is to use and choose where it matters most. I also love that there is a scanned history for all the old items you’ve scanned before that you can refer back too! I really am enjoying this app, excited for any beneficial updates. I haven’t used the app for that long yet for any suggestions at the moment.

Love this app!. After using this app for a few days, I was so pleased with it that I decided to go premium for the additional benefits. I have scanned almost all of my face and body products and many of my food products. If it is a known product you get a rating based on ingredients, along with a list of ingredients and information regarding known hazards and possible allergies etc…. If the product isn’t known, you can easily submit information by filling in product name, brand, and submitting a few photos of label and ingredients. Also, you get a list of alternatives with better ratings. I don’t know how they do it, but it is quick- like an hour or two. I have been surprised that some of the higher price products I have purchased have some very poor ratings, while their less expensive counterparts have high ratings. If you’re picky about what you put on and in your body (and your kids), I highly recommend this app.

Solved an almost-lifelong problem. I have been only buying cosmetic products that get an excellent rating on Yuka since knowing about the app. I have dealt with an eyelid irritation since I was probably around 13, when I started wearing makeup. I’ve tried switching to different products in the past for eye makeup and moisturizers that claim to be for sensitive skin, but nothing has changed my need to use a prescription medication to calm down the irritation. Even going with no eye makeup and just a moisturizer for many months hasn’t solved this issue. With my new cosmetic and moisturizer selections based on Yuka’s suggestions, I have had almost no irritation and have not had to use the prescription medication once. I’m still not exactly sure which ingredients were causing the problem. All I know is, my new products are not causing them, and I’m so pleased about that.

Everyone needs this app. So important. I’m absolutely obsessed with this app. I’ve had it for a couple weeks now and have managed to scan all of the foods i usually eat. It so scary how many common household foods have dangerous additives. Lots of food in the USA is banned in other countries cause of how dangerous it is. At first it felt a little discouraging when everything I scanned got a bad rating. But the recommendations helped me realize that there are a lot of healthy none expensive alternatives that taste just as great if not better. I’ve convinced my whole family to download the app so they can see what they are putting in their bodies. It’s crazy how even products that are marketed as healthy have a ridiculous amount of hazardous additives. It is SO important the we understand what we are putting in our bodies. We all want to live long healthy lives and this app definitely helps. This app makes it so easy to know and understand what the ingredients mean and how they effect our bodies. I’m so grateful to have found this app. Thank you YUKA for caring about our health!!!

Love this app!. I saw people using this app on social medias and since im trying to be more conscious about what i pit on and in my body this app has been my best friend when im out shopping and has encouraged me to read the labels more often and on my own! I highly recommend this app for multiple reasons, it could lower the chances of harsher chemicals being used in our everyday products if there sales go down and hopefully help companies stop cutting so many corners. In order to have good works you need healthy workers! So be more consious of your body and take care of it❤️ It will thank you in the long run. Also not only products but making your own diy products made of natural ingredients will cut down costs and skin issues and intestinal issues. Reading lables of healthier products will give you a good example of what ingredients to buy!

id give this infinite stars if i could. i’ve always been extremely cautious about what I put into an on my body I tried looking up certain words I see ingredients that I know aren’t natural and I would have to figure out if it is safe one by one. this app put everything right in front of your eyes it explains every single ingredient in detail and also let you know in a clear and simple way how much of a risk it is for your health (good, low risk, moderate risk) and also says out of 100 how healthy it is for your body. i’ve been wanting to write in a journal every ingredient I can find and if they are bad for you but now I can just pull it up on my phone whenever I need to know! this app is amazing and I truly do hope that they get more subscribers. I will definitely be promoting it on my social media‘s more people need to be aware of the benefits from this app🤍

Super helpful & efficient!!. The app is super easy to use and there's no limit on how many items you can scan within a certain amount of days much like some other apps I know. I do use this app mainly to choose which skincare and makeup items to use so I love that it's so easy to scan things and find whats good for your skin right away instead of sitting in aisles and reading the ingredients. One improvemnt I would recommend though is adding a feature where the app tells you which skin type the product would have better affects on. Telling you whether or not it would work wonders on your skin type (dry, oily, or combination) would really be a game changer and I think it would just be so much more convinent. Overall, the app is amazing, you do have to pay to be able to look certain products, but that's not a huge issue for me personally.

Changed my life. I do my best to be conscious of what i eat and the products i use on my body with the wage i make, but i was absolutely astounded to see how terrible a lot of it still was. we really have no idea what is going into our carts and even if they label ingredients no one is going to spend hours typing in names they can’t pronounce let alone researching the effects they have on us. this app has indefinitely changed my life and my perspective on food and skin care to a whole new level. i’m sharing it with everyone i know because everyone has a right to make educated choices for themselves so that one day companies can change how they make their products. the people behind this app are making a huge difference in the world one item at a time and my partner and i could not be more grateful for their tireless work. thank you a thousand times over. this app means more than you know.

Saving peoples lives one scan at a time. Finding out what is making me sick and others alike for this app. Once you clear just about everything in your home that’s effecting you, your on a new road to better health. Scanning at stores you start meeting people wanting to know what your doing. People are out there with real problems and no answers, me included. Knowledge is key to good health and if we have to scan everything we will do it. Exposing how bad the products we buy now explains the unnecessary suffering. Praying the this app, the people that create this and maintain the information never stray or sell out to the corrupt. Please stay on course and save these suffering people one scan at a time. Thank you for making a difference one scan at a time. I have met so many people, heard their stories and truly understand how important this app has become. Thank you!

Does not focus on ingredients and poor alternatives. First the good: the app is fast, scans quickly, user friendly, and Tracks what you’ve scanned. It also talks about questionable chemicals The Problems: the biggest problem is that it does not focus on ingredients, only the nutrition label. Does not even give you a picture or a list if the ingredients, not even for the alternative recommendations. Friends, Ingredients Matter! Ingredients are the first thing we should know about the food, before the calories, grams of sugar, amount of protein and fats. You can’t just read the amount of protein on a product label and know what you’re putting in your body. Not all ingredients are created the same, so the type of sugar matters, the type of fats matter, the quality of these ingredients matter, and how the body processes and uses the nutrients. This app will point out that there is too much sugar in a item, then go on to recommend a food with artificial sugar, which is so incredibly damaging to your health. It will recommend food with highly processed/refined oils, and foods high in glyphosate (which you can’t even read on an ingredient list) you just have to know what foods are heavily sprayed with chemicals, which is why people need good advice from apps like this, not more bad choices to replace the already bad choices.

The foods I eat have improved so much because of this app. I wish I could say something short and simple where you would try this app. Maybe you’re like me and try to eat healthy but not entirely sure of what you’re putting into your body. Maybe like me you’ve tried some food nutrition apps but find them to be confusing or just out to spam you. Maybe you too think that because the packaging looks healthy, the food is healthy. NOT SO!! I have learned a lot about that from Yuka. This app has really improved my life. Even though I could use it for free, I am so grateful that I donated to them anyway. I want this app to be around for my kids and grandkids so that they can have a better life. I try to tell everyone about Yuka and even demonstrate it to random people in the grocery store. The app and its developers are giving millions of people, tons of easy to understand food data and a chance to really improve quality of life FOR FREE. The app is very fast, easy to use, works just like they describe, and it helps with food choices. Honestly, you won’t regret getting it but your body will regret if you don’t use it.

OBSESSED. I have no idea how a majority of the people I know, including myself have not heard of this app sooner. I had no idea half the things I was using such as hair products, deodorant, and even beauty products were harmful for me. And I am not going to lie, there still are some things I will continue to buy that I am aware are not the healthiest choice for me, such as snacks or beauty products. However , if I can tweak and exchange some things out for healthier products I will and have done so in order to take care of myself better. Because girl I am still gonna eat hot Cheetos 😂😭 but I love and am so OBSESSED with this app. Every time I go to the store I use it to scan to make sure at least the majority of things I get are good for me to use. And what I love is knowing this app is not promoting or trying to bash Brands. It is a genuine app that is just trying to show in detail what each ingredient is.

Great Concept…but…. Okay. So I love the concept of this app, and I love the countless number of products registered into its database! It has a great ability to spot the nutritional benefits in everything despite the product. However I’m, personally, not a fan of the good/bad ratings that the products are labeled with. It does make things much simpler to categorize, I’m just not too sure it’s a great idea to villainize foods based on the number of calories they have, nutritional info.. so on and so forth. Just my intake on it^^ I also found that some products I’ve done extensive research on, in regards to health, were considered “bad”. When in reality, they were one of the most nutritionally dense foods I’ve ever found! Purely Elizabeth granola for example! I just wonder whether or not this app actually takes into account a products ingredients and not just the number of calories or how many grams of sugar or carbs are in it. Perhaps the ingredient lists need to be updated…? Please do correct me if I’m wrong:)

Doesn’t explain the risk based off of the products’ use.. This app isn’t accurate, I saw it from TikTok. Yes it gives you information about the product but it has nothing to do with its use and how you use it and doesn’t give tips or information about what happens when you use a certain amount and where. I’m related to 7 people in the medical field and I am learning about this same topic in school. I have dermatologist recommended products and if I scan them it says a very low rating, I asked my doctor about a dermatologist recommended face wash I had that was apparently 0/100 and he explained how the app was explaining what could happen if you consume it and had nothing to do with the use of the actual product. Out of curiosity I went home and scanned some candy and it literally said “too sweet” with the red dot, of course it’s super sweet- it’s candy! The app doesn’t explain how much of consuming the candy or food can cause said issues. For beauty products it just explains the worst possible thing that could happen which is not likely to actually occur as long as you’re using the product correctly. I recommend asking real doctors or professionals to see if a product is right for you.

So helpful with mindfulness!. I discovered this app on Tiktok about a week ago and I’m blown away by how much I have learned already. It is so so so helpful for my health journey to be able to see all the ingredients in my diet. People always say not to eat anything with ingredients you can’t pronounce, but who actually has the time to look up all these scary ingredients? This app is doing the work for you and making it a CONVENIENT way to make more conscious choices while grocery shopping. The blurbs of information regarding why an ingredient is bad or good is very easy to understand (in my opinion) and it is giving me a lot to think about in my life. I don’t want to put these things into my body, especially if they can build up and cause problems to me later in life. It’s shocking to see what kinds of things are being absorbed into my body. Packaging and marketing of products can be VERY misleading and I’m glad I have the science in this app to help me when all the choices of products may be misleading me. One thing to note is that it is very important to be reading WHY the products are bad, because Yuka is not only looking at the harmful things but also taking into account nutrition. I don’t mind eating something that’s way too fatty for me (in moderation) as long as it doesn’t have anything harmful :).

Good, few problems. The app works great for finding healthy products, but I find that it tends to have some issues with the nutritional value. Foods are dropped dozens of points because they are “(a bit) too caloric”. Not everyone is a middle aged obese woman trying to lose weight—as someone who wants to GAIN weight and eat MORE calories, more is better for me (assuming it’s not processed junk). The app also makes some very strange decisions, often rating low and then replacing good foods with ones that are much less healthy but have better ratings (ex: recommending my protein bar with 21g of protein and 190cal that has 2g of sugar and a small amount of additives [according to the app it claims that the bar has 220cal] be replaced with a bar that is 20 points higher but has 210cal, 12g of protein, and significantly higher amounts of sugar and salt [13g of sugar, 260mg of salt]). There is additionally no way to know the exact nutritional information (no nutrition facts label). The app also fails to scan items that have small barcodes, which can be problematic.

The app is good in a lot of ways, but….. Basically the app makes a lot of assumptions about nutrition that I, and research of the science of nutrition, don’t agree with. For example, the app will give butter (which recent studies and human consumption for thousands of years have proven it lowers the risk of heart disease and obesity) a low score because of saturated fats and then gives something with seed oils, rampant with oxidized omega 6 which is the fat that clogs your arteries, a higher score. The app also assumes that for example, salt is bad for you. As a ranch hand for a while I understand how dumb of a statement that is. Because if you don’t provide salt blocks to cows they start licking dirt in a desperate attempt to find salt and then die. Salt is a necessary nutrient. Period. Because of all of this, I use the app purely for looking into additives and chemicals, and not for nutritional advice, which an app like this should focus on anyway, because different people need different nutrients, and lots of people are turning to different lifestyle diets to accomplish their goals which according to this app are very unhealthy. (For example I exclusively eat beef, butter, dairy, broccoli, and Diet Pepsi 😂)

AMAZING saves me stress, time, and money.. So I’ve had this app for four years now but I never paid for the subscription; it was still doing its justice. I recently pay for the subscription and I love it even more. Now I can just search up any product when I need to. I have contact dermatitis I don’t have to try new products and hope my skin doesn’t flake up, I can literally just search up hair gels and see which products have dermatitis causing ingredients. I am so thankful for this app, it’s honestly made a difference in my life. Also sidenote for the developers, it would be so cool if yuka had a feature where you could filter out certain ingredients from your search. For example if I need a product that doesn’t have Phenoxyethanol I can just filter it out and have the list of products there. Thank you so much for this amazing app❤️❤️❤️

New Update 11/11 Not Good. My sister introduced this app to me, but apparently has a different version because when I just downloaded it, we realized my version is lacking the features that we both liked the most on her app. For example, we both scan the same product - a simple aquafor lotion - and the view is entirely different. It does not show you recommendations, nothing is categorized, you have to manually drop down a list to view ingredients and it doesn’t show you the actual rating system for those ingredients. Hers is SO much nicer and I can see why she likes it so much. It’s a shame because I was so bought into it after seeing hers that I downloaded and became a premium member and I immediately regret that choice now knowing my version isn’t the same and this app now feels useless because the features that were most convenient aren’t easily accessible anymore. It’s a shame that they got rid of some important features that align with their purpose. Until they fix this recent update, don’t download this app. Maybe it’s a new bug, but I won’t be using it until it’s fixed! Please fix this app!

My best friend at the grocery stores. Yuka makes it so much easier for me to shop for healthy food. The grading system over 100 and the simplified rationale behind the assigned grade makes it easy to understand. Also, the grades classify the products into for categories (excellent, good, poor or bad) simplifying my decision making process to purchase a product or not. The most appreciated feature is the suggestion of better similar products that Yuka makes in the event the product scanned would not be a good choice. I must mention that I appreciate the highlight of hazardous additives. Most of us know very little to noting about the numerous chemicals that we’re being bombarded with by the food industry. Thank you Yuka for calling out loud these harmful substances and educating the user about their eventual effects on our health. I have been telling everyone about Yuka and so far all my friends and family have downloaded this app and have been so excited to tell me about their findings of better food options.

A game changer for me. I almost never write reviews, but I had to write a review about this program because it is so good. First, I’ve been on a diet for about nine months. I’ve been focused solely on calories and knew that I was consuming some foods that were probably not nutritious or good for me. Getting the Yuka app serves all of my purposes. Since it takes calories into account — along with many, many other important factors — I can simply buy highly rated foods from the Yuka app and know that I am getting both nutritious and calorie reasonable meals. It has completely altered the way that I buy food. Second, the app is much easier to use than many other apps. I’m sure you know what it’s like to have a very powerful app that is also very difficult to use. Yuka provides tremendous information in a very easy to use and understand format. Third, and finally — and most certainly not least — is the fact that I have contacted customer care on a couple of occasions and their responses have been fantastic! They get back to you within 48 hours (usually much faster) and they are extremely responsive and helpful. I just cannot speak highly enough of their customer care. I cannot recommend this this program highly enough. Very much worth the money and more.

Nice idea but…. Downloaded the app and scanned 1st item: Crisco Veggie Oil, Wow. This scans as “Good”! Really? Check the ingredients list. It’s Soybean oil a GMO product that’s part of the bad oils group which are being used in 1000s of products and at practically every restaurant in the US. These are being marketed as ‘healthy’ because the FDA approved them. These oils are slowly poisoning our society, causing inflammation with every bite. They are terrible for your BRAIN, heart, and hormones. The FDA serves a purpose but is also part of the broken food system currently making Americans increasingly fat, tired and sick. Just a little research reveals that these highly refined oils, when heated up - as in for frying/ cooking… they increase inflammation in the blood and increases your risk of heart disease. SUGGESTION: Add a feature to your app that allows people to create TAGS for ingredients THEY want to avoid. That way, the many people who prefer food selections based on their own research about what’s “good” can make use of it. This version is useless to me if it gives a thumbs up to these terrible oils.

Helpful, but not consistent. They need to put more helpful recommendations and alternatives. It’s very stressful using this app because everything you scan is toxic but they don’t offer enough alternatives for people. They only offer a few and if you cannot locate these brands you’re basically stuck. It would be a lot more encouraging if they gave you many other options to choose from some people have allergies and sensitivities to certain ingredients so the first few products you recommend might not work for them but I do think that an app like this should try to dig a little bit deeper. I pay for premium and feel like it’s not that special. On the other hand I love using this app because it breaks down all of the ingredients which ones are good and which ones are bad, etc. However there are items that I’ve scanned before that have come up as excellent that later on were changed to being poor products and having bad ingredients. The ingredients on the products did not change so I am wondering why the scoring changed it’s very confusing . I t makes me feel like I’m wasting my money every time I buy something that says it’s clean or excellent on Yuka I will scan it a couple months later and it’s now considered harmful? I don’t get it. There are some products that have remained clean and I’m happy about that because that means I won’t have to be replacing them and spending more money to buy new ones.

Just the start. I have to say i really enjoy this app. I'm a licensed cosmetologist/esthetician and of course like to be mindful of the products that I'm using on my self but not only that but also on my clients. This app makes it so easy to break down whats in a product so easily. ive shown everyone i know and even paid for the premium version. (this app is consumer funded. company's do not pay them to say their product is this or that) me being superstitious compared what the app said to what the label of ingredients said and its always right. i know the app is still fairly new and the interface and features it offers outside of just listing ingredients and letting you know if there bad then offering recommendations it doesn't do a whole lot more. I like that it keeps of history of barcode scans, i wish it had a feature to incorporate online shopping. Me personally i dont shop alot in stores and without a physical barcode it makes buying things online still risky. so that could be a cool feature. As well as creating like brands and like ranking them by a collective of what their product scores are. I love this idea of putting the power back in the consumers hands though. knowledge is power, and it starts with our daily habits to really see change. THANK YOU!

Not very accurate. This app has a great design and is easy to use. I love scanning things around the grocery store or around my bathroom, but I find several things very annoying. There are often duplicates of the same exact product and many duplicates that have wildly different ratings - each with different lists of ingredients. One is rated Poor and another Excellent. How is that helpful? I find that the “ingredients scanner” camera feature is horribly inaccurate and doesn’t always pick up/ include what’s really listed (Ingredients can easily be found by searching for the product listed online, how is this not integrated to fix the discrepancies?). Duplicates don’t get flagged and corrected unless you complain - Why isn’t this more automated or at least consistently looked out for? Certain ingredients like Talc and Fragrance (Parfum) are listed as healthy when they are known to have caveats and potentially cause harm. Because of it’s flaws I can’t trust much of what this app tells me which is such a headache. PLEASE consider finding smarter technology or finding a way to hire more people to keep everything accurate.

Truly Unbiased and Unfiltered. While I don’t agree with absolutely everything said in the app (I mean, who 100% agrees with anyone one everything), I absolutely love that they CITE THEIR SOURCES! Most articles I find don’t source information or source possibly 2 other studies/articles, but 90% of the original articleis just personal opinion or experience. Sometimes, items will say they contain harmful materials, but READ THE DESCRIPTION! I have found, with my own scans, sometimes the harmful ingredient is only harmful in certain situations, and the product I scanned DOES NOT fall in that category. So the descriptions of these ingredients is, in a sense, a copy/paste, but not in a bad way. This actually means they research and review ingredients, not products. Also, as a personal side note, it is NOT an American website/app, which gives it more credibility, to me. I can’t trust these processed-loving Americans…. If the developers are reading this, I would hope that descriptions for healthy/well-rated ingredients will be introduced as well. I know that comes with more liability, but knowing what GOOD is contained is just as important as knowing what BAD is contained. I think so, at least.

Health/Game changer. download this app and help do your part to stop food companies from putting hazardous chemicals in their products! The more that people scan and learn about these disgusting chemicals put in packaged foods the more we can stop them. And create healthy humans that don’t need synthetic drugs and are constantly hospitalized for things that can be easily fixed and cured by not eating chemical based synthetically created genetically modified food products. Stop being lazy and be conscientious of what you put in your body. This app will help you realize. Your full health potential and how you’re harming yourself by eating stuff like Wheat Thins and Kirkland brand canned tuna, fish and using lotions like Aveeno. Once you scan something and realize that it has for hazardous chemicals, it’s very difficult to justify buying it or using it ever again!!!!! if you have thyroid issues this app is for you!

Yay for Yuka!. Some apps are fun, many are useful, and a very few are life-changing. Yuka is one of the latter. I initially used it to scan my previously purchased foods and hygiene/cosmetic products, and now I use it every time I shop. I even became a Premium member in order to look up products I can’t scan (like when I’m shopping online). I have very sensitive skin and have often dealt with contact dermatitis, burning, itching, and other adverse reactions. Being able to find and switch to products that don’t contain potential allergens or harmful chemicals has given me peace of mind and much happier skin. I also like to eat as cleanly as I can, and Yuka facilitates that. It’s a lot easier to simply not buy a food at the store when it’s rated poor or bad, and, if I decide to buy it anyway, it’s a no-brainer to eat it sparingly. It’s amazing and disheartening how many processed foods that claim to be super healthy actually aren’t healthy at all. Needless to say, Yuka has saved me from being deceived and wasting money. In a world full of vendors whose bottom line is financial gain rather than creating and selling safe, effective products, Yuka is an enormous blessing. Thank you, Yuka developers, for putting people’s health above profit!

My favorite app. I use this app daily. I don’t buy anything anymore without scanning it on Yuka first. I have switched almost every product I use on a daily basis: deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, face lotion, hand soap, chapstick, eye liner, toothpaste, etc. I’ve made numerous alternative food choices from scanning products on Yuka first. My wife and I enjoy walking throughout our grocery store and scanning products for fun just to see what’s good and what’s not. My only complaint is that Yuka doesn’t rate certain products like laundry detergent or dishwashing detergent, etc. I’m not sure why they wouldn’t add this being that they’re already rating hand soaps. I wish Yuka would expand to being able to scan all products. I’m working towards eliminating toxic products in my life, but there’s still many things that Yuka doesn’t evaluate. Lots of opportunity still there!

Love this app. Ok so I just downloaded this app, and fell in love with it. A very close relative of mine has been trying to eat healthy for the past year or so now and feels like nothing was working. I showed her this app, and that many products she thought were healthy were actually contributing to gaining weight, migranes, and even more conditions. She was ecstatic about this app, and next time she goes to the store this app will be with her. I personally love how you get recommendations on similar products that are healthier alternatives. Not only that but I feel much better knowing that what I am going to eat In the future is healthy, and tasty. Some ideas I have for this app are ones that will make it easier to purchase items, for example… let’s say a cereal brand you have been buying products from is not healthy, and you tap on a similar, but healthier alternative, it would make it very convenient if you could tap it and add it to a personalized in app grocery list, for when you go to the store. That way you have a picture of this unfamiliar product along with the name of it. I am very excited to use this app, and hope it will make my future healthier! Thanks a million!

BEST APP EVER MADE. I have since replaced my deodorant, toothpaste body wash using this. I only buy products it says that are good AT THE LEAST!!! It’s an independent app. There’s no outside push by corporations. It seems and is like the best app ever made because it’s saving us from harmful chemicals, like parabens, sulfates, artificial sweeteners, texturizers, food dyes and soooo much more that is harmful to ingest. When I shop at the local wholefoods, I find MANY products within that store harmful and not everything is perfectly clean there to buy. I share it with people in the store as I’m shopping and with the cashiers. It blows their mind! But then, I see them go straight to their phone and look for it to get it. I usually show people how it works on the spot. These are just strangers and I am telling everybody about it. When I’m at work, and people are eating microwave foods, and what not, scanning those products is all bad and hazardous to eat. Finding typical products that seem to be good for you, actually most name brand products are hazardous for you! I hope everybody gets this app and this doesn’t get shut down. It’s truly a blessing that this exists.🙌🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙌🏽 I’m so thankful! 💪🏽❤️🤙🏽

This app is the best!!!. I have had this app for about 6 months now and I love it. I use it to scan all beauty products and foods. I can’t believe I have found so many bad products that I have used for so many years!!!! Terrible!! I suffer from migraines and some other health issues and I believe this app will help me recognize some bad and dangerous ingredients that can negatively affect the kidneys, hormones, fertility and cardiovascular disease. My fiancé thought I was crazy to start using better products because they are more expensive even though they don’t have all the bad ingredients that disrupt your body, but he had me scan his products he uses and he immediately threw them all out when I showed him. I even scanned most of Sephora’s “clean beauty” products and I was so surprised to find that most if not all of their clean beauty products are poor or very bad for you. CRAZY!!!! Thank you for creating this amazing app at such a fair price!!!! It’s literally the best!!!!!

Awesome, two suggestions!. As a pregnant mom this has saved me soo much time and is just the most wonderful app I have! I love it so much. My husbands aunt suggested it to me and I have used it since. I just have a couple suggestions that would make it easier to use and would make me love it even more! First, I would suggest a filter option when you search for results on the app, if possible it would be amazing to have a “filter from highest rated to lowest rated” option so I don’t have to spend an hour clicking into every result to check the rating. Because they aren’t in order right now. Also I would suggest doing something like my fitness pal has and allowing customers to also input the information of products that haven’t been reviewed by your team yet. I’m not saying to post them right away but possibly allow that and they could go through a process where someone checks it for mistakes or formula changes before it gets posted. I was thinking it might even save your team some time but who knows it could make it too complicated . Just a thought. Either way that result filter option would be so amazing to have. No matter what I love this app so much and have been telling everyone about it!! 10/10!!

I have a recommendation. I absolutely love this app. It helps me make better choices for my health and the health of my loved ones. I do have 2 suggestions though: 1) it would be awesome if you guys can add laundry detergent options as well as beauty. 2) I really wish there was a way for the developers to include where to buy the “excellent” and “good” products. Like when you scan something, and it says “poor” or “bad”, it then suggests a better product, which is great, but it doesn’t say where I can buy it, so it’s kinda leaving me without options, y’know? You’re telling me this product is better for me, okay, but you’re not telling me where I can find it or if it’s near me or if I have to buy it online depending on my GPS location. I think a new feature like that would help IMMENSELY. Other than that, this is one of the best apps on the AppStore in my opinion, keep up the amazing work that you guys do!

Excellent Usability, Imperfect Accuracy. The app itself is absolutely fantastic - lightning fast, intuitive, easy to navigate, and everything else that a great app should be. Really really well-developed. The accuracy side, however, is not perfect. Some items don’t always have the right nutrition facts or additives, so it’s always important to double check the label before making any changes. That being said, the process for submitting a correction is super easy and (I assume) has verification built in. And while the specifics about each product aren’t always right, every harmful additive has sources cited for why it’s bad that are linked in the app. Overall, I couldn’t be much happier with the app, it’s just important to remember that the ingredient lists and nutrition facts aren’t guaranteed to be accurate and should always be checked with the label of the actual product before making a decision about anything.

Great concept, needs a better UI. This is hands down the missing peice to nutrition facts in the modern food/household goods supply. The detailed explanation and source references to common additives is invaluable for distinguishing between "healthy" and safe food and household products. Because the product database is crowd sourced, there are still significant gaps when trying to find data-- but the concept is solid. I would like to see product identification by a SKU/vendor cross reference, as sometimes the same product may appear in multiple stores under different SKUs. The UI needs a lot of work to make quick-referencing products easier. For instance, favorites and my products are isolated lists and should be combined. My products only works if the user scans and enters information themself. I would also love to see an integration with apps like Shipt or Instacart so I can quickly add/filter items I frequently order. Bottom line: This is worth the annual subscription fee; just be patient with the UI.

Fabuleux!!! Fabulous!!!. Thank you, Merci!!! my sister told me about this app the other day so I instantly downloaded it and now I’m a barcode monster! I have gone around my house and gotten rid of so many beauty products that are probably the source of all of my allergies! I feel so grateful for the work that you have done and also overjoyed that you are not being led by big companies! Please stay real for the people! I did a little research and realized that you are French and even though I was born in America and live back here now, I spent 15 years in France and that is where a part of my soul resides! Your work is truly appreciated and NEEDED today! I am telling everyone about your app and spreading it on social media. Thank you again for creating this! Everything we do can make this world a better place if what we do is for the good of ourselves and for the good all! It’s so important to bring awareness! Bless you!!

❤️❤️ Truly best app and life saver.. I love this app so much. User friendly & affordable. 10/10 recommend. Do you know how much excessive phosphate consumption I’ve avoided thanks to Yuka app?? A ton. Shocking to see how many food brands are horrible for your health. I live in a town where cancer is rampant and it seems so many people are dying from it. Just from food scanning through this app alone, I can see why. Cannot thank the people who made Yuka enough. One thing I can add as constructive criticism is the calorie intake part could be excluded. Not saying don’t include the macronutrients of how much something has, but It would be better if the ranking focused solely on hazardous ingredients. For example, It will give an item an undeserved poor rating because it is considered “too caloric” but other than that have clean ingredients 😅 everyone has different weight/calorie goals. We can come to our own conclusion on wether or not something has too many calories based on our life style. So for those who feel guilty for seeing the “too caloric” label don’t feel so bad. Track your own calories and you decide if having a snack is good enough to be included into your day.

Helpful but problematic. I really like this app! Especially for beauty and body products. However, I don’t love how some foods are rated “bad” just because they are caloric, fatty, or sugary. Most foods can be part of a healthy and well rounded diet, even if they are fatty or sugary. It’s ok to have a treat sometimes as long as it’s not your main source of sustenance. Instead of learning Yuma’s value judgement on the item, I just want to check to make sure there are no additives and chemicals in these products. It told me that an organic dark chocolate bar that had 4 simple ingredients, 3 of which were organic besides the salt, was bad and recommended a non-organic dark chocolate bar with far more ingredients that I couldn’t even pronounce or recognize. I’m sorry but in this case, the more wholesome and organic product is going to win out. Sometimes you just want some dark chocolate, and I don’t need Yuka telling me that it’s bad! I just want it to tell me that the ingredients are healthy and that there are no additives or hazardous materials in it. It also seems like it could be triggering for those dealing with eating disorders or orthorexia.

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Amazing App!. My husband and I love this app! My husband uses it all the time in the supermarket and we keep telling about it to our friends; The only thing is that we wanted to support them by subscribing to the premium membership but because of our location (Australia) we couldn’t and we don’t get the alternatives options for products neither. Beside that, it must be the most used App on our phones 🤩😍

Fantastic app!!!. Tell your friends and family about the helpful and amazing Yuka!! I always use yuka before getting skin care products, it has made me alerted of bad products! Yuka has made me the best version of myself and I wouldn’t recommend another app. Trust me yuka is PHENOMENAL 😍😍😍

Clever, useful & informative app. Yuka was recommended by a friend and I am obsessed! It is easy to use and I love being able to make informed decisions on the products I buy. The simple rating system of the app provides quick results to see if there are any hidden nasties or to confirm it is a great choice. It makes it so much easier to choose between products. Love it! Please bring premium to Australia.

Amazing little App. For people who want to know their quality and contents of their food, this app is a must have. I have been using this for a while now and absolutely love it. It provides you with very good information and insights on how good or bad an item is. Definitely going to subscribe.

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 😙

In love. Absolutely love this app. I’ve never in my life been bothered to write a review but this app is life changing. Thanks so much to the team. I hope soon they manage to extend and make it available to my home country Greece and also make premium available in Australia.

Great app. It has really opening my eyes about what’s harmful in common skin care and food items! Love how this app describes everything for me a gives alternate recommendations. Only issue is that I can’t become a member in Australia! I would love to be able to search up items before purchasing.

Wow! This is amazing!. I thought I was pretty well informed about my choices but I discovered that a proportion of foods and cosmetics that I consume very regularly contain hazardous ingredients. Many of the poorly rated products had alternatives recommended, which I’ll be trying. It would be great to know what substitutes could replace some very very poorly rated cheeses, but perhaps a healthy option doesn’t exist. The app is exceptionally easy to use, detected almost everything I scanned and allowed me to upload a new product and have it reviewed. Planning to purchase the paid app as this is a cause I’m passionate about getting behind.

Great if the product is already in the database. Great if the product is already in the database, but trying to add new products just results in frustration. Take the photo, add ALL the info it asks for only to repeatedly get an error message (despite strong wifi at my location). I gave up and will have to rely on the info already there.

A true game changer for one’s health. This is the best app I have ever seen and has greatly changed my shopping list from so many hazardous chemicals in our food and products. I have passed it onto so many friends who agree and use it every time they shop. Thanks you so much for your hard work and for our gained wisdom of how many products are out there with so many hazardous ingredients

Loving the premium Gluten Free option. Loved the app and found it so helpful when looking at finding healthier alternatives but now that the premium subscription has an allergen option, I don’t think I can live without it!

I’m in love with this app!. I only downloaded this a couple days ago and I have to say I have scanned nearly all the beauty products in my house! This app is amazing because it’s a free app that tells you about your cosmetics, skincare, or even food. This app really helped me throw out some bad skincare, and i’m glad that I didn’t leave it because who knows what could happen! I also had to send an email on an inquiry I had, and the staff sending me the email back was so kind and I felt so looked after! I’ll defiantly be recommending this app to all my friends. Thank you so much Yuka! You have really helped me, and so many others find what products are good, and which you should second guess. Thanks again! Lily

Highly recommend. I’ve been using this app for the last week and it has changed my eating habits. I was assuming a lot of the foods in the health food aisle were good for me, but after scanning and looking at the ingredients they really are not. And the best bit is this app suggests healthy alternatives. Love this app it has changed my life.

Best app to ever exist. I love this app! I originally got it for my baby because I didn’t want to be putting harmful chemicals on my bub, especially things like wipes and nappy cream that i use everyday! I got excited when i first got it and scanned literally EVERYTHING i own, such a great idea! Especially when there’s names in products i have no idea about, this app is extremely helpful! Love it, great job guys!

Amazing app I use almost daily!. I am in love with this life changing app. I’ve used this on so many skincare and beauty products and I think this app will be the reason why my skincare journey will be the best it can be. I was so shocked to find many beauty/skincare companies that claim to have good ingredients but should really be avoided at all costs. I have recommended it to all my friends. Absolutely love this app.

Best Food Scanner App Out There!. I’ve been using this app for I think nearly a year and it’s so much easier to know what you are eating then just looking it up online I had used previous food scanner apps before but none compare to Yuka. It’s the future of the world we will be living in especially with how many food products have additives in them the only downside I’d say is I cannot support them because I’m from Australia.

One Suggestion. The app is great for what it can do, but the problem is it can’t read other languages. I’m trying to upload the nutrition table, but it’s in other language so it says can’t find the table. If there was an option to upload the translated image that would’ve been nice.

Best food and cosmetic app ever. I got this app looking at the reviews and I thought this couldn't be true and ever since then very piece of food my parents get I scan it but I have one suggestion. If yuka could scan board games and stuff like that call me crazy but I think it could be cool to tell you the purpose of the game and shows instructions on how to play the game. But anyways to summarise everything I said best app 10/10

A Lifesaver. I’m new to this App and have been both shocked and amazed at what I’ve discovered when scanning Food, makeup and skincare products. I’ve always been so very health conscious because of the polluted world we created and the ramifications in driving disease. I’ve recommended this App to everyone I know. Thank you.

Yuka. This is an excellent app, with so much processed food out there and some common foods out there which we thought were really good, but not so. This is a great tool while shopping, it also shows some good alternatives. This app is absolutely first rate.

Needs a bit of work. Metrics are inconsistent, and many alternative products do not align with the scanned one. Why recommend non vegan / allergy friendly chips, when the scanner chips are? And plain oat milk, as an alternative to flavoured? Obviously that’s healthier, but people want to get a healthier substitute of the same product. Dark chocolate isn’t gonna be like a dairy free white chocolate. And the alt recommended has dairy 🤦‍♀️ A sauce, is not an alternative to a sprinkleable spice, either. Some of the “alternatives,” need a lot of work, however many are pretty good, I’ll give you that.

Eye opening!. I downloaded this app last week and have used it everyday. It it very easy to use and gives clear information. I’m surprised about the rating of some of the products that I’ve been buying because I thought they had low toxicity. This is app is helping me make healthy choices. Thank you Yuka😎

This is amazing 🫠🫠. This is an amazing app 🥳! So great it can keep you healthy 🥗it has history scanning and suggestions for other products too plus it has scientific 🧐research and Is scientifically proven. Although it is great it has some downsides like it will say it is bad But it might just be that it has calories so just before you think I spent a lot of money 💶on that look at the info first. But there is one more thing they can improve it is just that if you are not in America you can not by things on it 🫤 well anyway it is great!!!!🙃🙂

Do not trust this APP!. The score is entirely incomprehensible. This application appears to have replicated the Korean app named Hwa-Hae, which was introduced back in 2013. Unlike this app, Hwa-Hae refrains from assigning scores to products and instead provides accurate information exclusively to consumers. I conducted a search for French products on Hwa-Hae, including brands like La Roche-Posay, Bioderma, and L'Occitane. Hwa-Hae indicates that these items contain numerous high-risk ingredients. Curiously, Yuka, in contrast, has chosen not to divulge this information and has assigned these products high scores instead. In all likelihood, these products should be rated unfavorably. It would be prudent not to place any trust in this application.

Makes reading labels easy. Super easy to use and understand information given. Also provides links to back up claims and sometimes better alternatives. Highly recommend for people beginning the non toxic journey.

Great App. Installed this app after buying another Health & Fitness app and well the one that I bought is now gone and this one has stayed. Has everything you need and if it doesnt you can just fill it in like I did yesterday and got a response straight away with the product uploaded within a day. Great app and great customer service Thankyou Bianca from yuka 👍🏽

Absolutely BRILLIANT. So easy to use, excellent references to accurate information. Scanner works so quickly I use it every time I go shopping. I love that it provides recommendations for healthier products to use. I have small children and I’m comforted to know what they are putting into their bodies and on their skin/hair. I use this app daily, if the item isn’t recognised, you’re able to add it yourself and get a rating almost immediately. Highly recommend to live a healthier, less toxic life. Our entire family love it. Thank you so much for creating such a helpful app!

Awesome!. I just discovered this app. Went through my cosmetics cabinet and after scanning my products i realised how much poison I have been putting on my skin all these years! 95% of my ‘natural’ expensive products didn’t rate well! Thank you Yuka for exposing the lies cosmetic companies feed us. Just signed up for the Premium membership and telling everyone about you.

Brilliant. I began using the app in-store today and was really impressed how easy it was to get the information so quickly. It definitely helped me make better choices. Give it a go, Recommend!

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.

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

Love this app & all the information it provides!. This app is so easy to use! The results are often very surprising when you think your making a nutritional choice! I love that it recommends healthier alternatives. It makes it super easy to stay on track and limit hidden harmful ingredients. I use it every day!

Love this app!. This app is amazing. It’s super scary what ingredients everyday products I use have in them and I have chucked out a lot of items in my household these last few days. I wish the paid version was available in Australia to be able to search products that don’t have a barcode. Really hope this function becomes available in Australia soon so can also support the business by paying! Have recommended it to a few friends and they love it too!

Would be 5 stars if…. …first week of scanning, the app gave reasons WHY the products were bad. It broke down the ingredient list by name and what part of the body it affects like endocrine inhibitor or affected fertility, liver, hormones etc Now it just says if it’s bad or good and percentage of bad or good. No breakdowns on what the bad ingredients are or why they’re bad. Plus, I can’t even become and member because the app isn’t supported in my country?? I live in Australia and the app successfully scans Australian made products so I’m a little confused why I can’t become a member. Would be an app I’d use every single day if it actually worked consistently and I could give you my money… but you don’t want it apparently

Helpful App!. Love that it shows potentially harmful additives so I can make the best choices on products that I am using on/giving to my kids. Only thing that is disappointing is that I have to pay to access the search feature. Maybe if your customers make so many contributions to your database they are offered the premium perks at a discount or free :)

Game changer for our little family LOVE LOVE LOVE. I absolutely LOVE this app! I use it all the time since having my babies and it has taught me so much!! I feel really good about the food and product choices we make now and it’s easier to decide the level of risk I’m willing to take on. It’s been a game changer for us - so grateful

Wish I’d found this sooner!. This app is an amazing way to check what products are additive and preservative free. Simply scan the barcode of the item and the health rating will show and better alternatives. Pay extra and you can search any product without scanning a barcode.

My New Best Shopping Companion!. I stumbled across Yuka but I am ecstatic I have. This app provides me with education beyond google. It’s easy to read & understand the descriptions. I have already changed the way I shop & it’s provided me with confidence of my choices. It’s a transparent app that provides recommendations for options, this has definitely taken the hard work out of making the right choice. My children use it as it’s fun & easy for them to access & understand. Looking forward to more household items to be added to the app. Please keep up the amazing work!

It’s very useful. My friend told me about this app so I tested it with some of my skincare products when I scanned my skincares barcode it had the list of ingredients and the risks so I too a look at the risks and it actually had proof that the ingredients do have a risk, also when you are shopping you can scan the barcode or search the product so you can also use this app so save money I highly recommend this app

Literally, a life saver. First time ever I write a review for an app. This app is easy and intuitive to use for everyone who wants to have a clean/organic/natural/healthy life style. The only little problem is I want to become a premium member but the app doesn’t accept my payment from Australia. Hopefully, they will fix this soon 🫶🏻.

Excellent. I love this app!! You can scan a food or a beauty product and it’ll show if it had good or bad ingredients. If you have something with bad ingredients it’ll give you recommendations. For example if you have a bad shampoo it will show other shampoos with better ingredients. But one thing I don’t like is that it sometimes can’t recognise the things you scan. Overall, its a very useful app

Disappointed. I’m from Australia, and I’ve just downloaded this app to test out a product only in Australia. The problem is, it’s taken 2 days for the FIRST product. It still isn’t ready which I think is just sad. Why make a app that can only recognise stuff from America? It takes way to long, and if your an Aussie trying out this app your probably in for more then a 2 day wait. This app has good reviews but this is a problem I’m pointing out for all my Australian people. You couldn’t fix it? This app is pretty good for good structure, and representation with helping you if your on a diet. But the waiting is my problem I have.

Amazing app, just a few things that could be improved :). I downloaded this app and absolutely love it, I use it to shop now. Very interesting all the harmful chemicals hidden in products. I bought premium and changed the setting to vegan so I can easily check food before I buy it. It would be really useful and great if it also scanned skin care and hair care too for animal products :) Also when the list of ingredients comes up when you scan an item, it would be nice to be able to press on the safe chemicals, not just the harmful ones. I am interested what is in the product, good and bad :) Overall amazing app and definitely worth it :)

Can’t live without. It’s an amazing app, I used to choose products based on reviews and brands which claimed to use the best Ingredients and were healthy and natural, which is actually a lie, sometimes the cheaper products that you think won’t do much for you are the best, I have discovered Yuka a while ago when I saw a lady using on a pharmacy and asked about it, already recommended to all my friends.

Amazing!. This is such a game changer! Not only does it help me make better health choices but also better cosmetic choices! I would definitely recommend this app, I’ve become a member to help this project grow because I whole heartedly believe in it, and if you can as well, I would say to do so as well! <3

About time. Finally a way to easily tell what products are harmful. My only complaint is that Australians can’t access the service where you can look up products instead of having to scan them. I would happily pay the $22 per year for that

Why is there always a connection problem?. Since I’m in Australia many of the items aren’t in the app so I have to manually add them. Whenever I do so, when I get to the nutritional value photo, it loads and states that there is a connection error. I have refreshed my wifi and switched to data and downloaded the app again but still it states there is a connection error. Why? I just want to know what simple foods rate as.

No verification.. My family uses the app and they say its useful, so i went to download it but when i put in my real email (tried multiple times and the spelling was correct) but it said it was already in use. i have no other emails to use and im very mad, theres no way to verify who you are and now someone else has used my email or the app just wont work for me. either way im very upset with this because there isnt even a way to contact the developers through the app. there should atleaste some sort or verification method to ensure this doesnt happen to other people.

Love this app. I absolutely love this app and have recommended it to family members and work colleagues. I would like to upgrade to the premium version to support the app and give something back but when I try to upgrade a message pops up telling me the upgrade isn’t supported in my region. If you can tell me how to overcome this I’ll happily upgrade.

Yuka. By far the best, most useful App I’ve ever used. So good being able to scan while doing your shopping so you can make more informed and better choices. I have just upgraded to the premium and looking forward to getting more information.

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Just use Google lol. I scanned two of my cleansers on here, one of which didn't have the best rating on the app. So I decided to google the ingredients it said were bad, and the ingredients cause no harm? Nor has the cleanser ever caused problems for me before. So I'm not exactly impressed. Also you have to pay to be able to search your prouduct without using the scanner. I kinda thought it would be free just in case something you own has no bacode. (That or they can't find the product) Just use Google. It's free and there's multiple sources

Très bonne application !. Super apps qui permet d’ouvrir les yeux sur pas mal de produit ! Je l’ai faite découvrir à des ami(e)s qui ont pu découvrir que la quasi totalité de leurs produits cosmétiques sont dangereux. Je recommande ! PS: l’option « Membre » est actuellement indisponible pour le Canada : « Région non supportée ».

Phenomenal. I was quite surprised at how quick the App responds to a barcode and provide the necessary feedback. It is quite accurate and thorough, helping me make smarter grocery choices.

Very good. I think that it could be improved by making it so stuff that doesn’t have a QR code can also be rated so when you show the camera the front of the product it will be able to identify it and give you a rating otherwise it is amazing 100% recommended this app

I love Yuka, but this is unfair. I’ve been using Yuka for years and honestly love it. But there’s something that really annoys me. In the pursuit of finding the best products, you’ll scan a lot of stuff at the grocery store: good, bad, terrible… However everything will count toward the general user score (aka overview), making it look like the consumption habits were very poor. We’re not buying everything we scan lol! Please improve that!

Useful!. Quick and efficient! An easy and quick way to read which ingredients to lookout for. I truly enjoy this app already and it’s been only a couple of hours I use it 😂

Yuka. I like the app for additives and environmental impact. I do not like it when it says foods are too caloric. I think this could contribute to disordered eating in individuals who are not educated about this.

Quality check needed. I really like this app, and can see its potential value. However, I think more work needs to be done to increase that value and usability. Like others have said, a lot of products are not in the database, which is understandable and will take time to build a large database. However, what I am finding is that there are discrepancies in the listed ingredients of a product in the app. A few items that I have scanned are deemed “bad” because they are (in the database) listed as having “sodium phosphate” amongst other additives. When you look at the actual ingredient list on the packaging, those additives are not listed. Now I don’t know if these were items added by a user but a more thorough quality checks needs to be done before you deem an item as “bad”.

Mind blowing!!. This app is awesome! I’ve been scanning literally everything in my fridge and cupboards, amazed to find out how many products are actually healthy compared to so many potentially dangerous products I have in the kitchen! How did I get by without it? Five star rating with no hesitation, for sure!

Don’t show the real risk of the ingredients. Be aware! This app doesn’t disclose the real risk of the ingredients. Several ingredients are classified as safe and they are not, such as fragrance.

J’adore!!!. Bien hâte d’avoir accès à la version premium pour le Canada. Très pratique pour les produits transformés et les cosmétiques.

Excellent Tool. This app is an excellent tool for knowing what you are putting in and on your (or your kids) bodies! It is especially important these days to know what chemicals are in EVERYTHING and the effect it has in our bodies!! I recommend this app to EVERYONE!!!

This app has changed my life for the better. I never write reviews but have to for yuka I use it constantly. grocery shopping takes me twice as long now cause i’m scanning everything I can get my hands on but being able to know exactly what it is i’m putting in my body is well worth the extra time. I LOVE YUKA.

Love it. Been using it everywhere it helps me not be a maniac buying everything or anything. Has no issue with it so far.

Yuka app. Je suis devenu grand utilisateur de Yuka depuis un moment deja, toujours étoné sur la qualité des aliments, parfois la même marque en propose des bons et des mauvais. J’avoue que je « contamine » tout le monde autour de moi et on change vraiment nos habitudes suite a votre remarquable service. Grand merci d’un expat français au Québec! Michel Meunier

Super Dave. Great app ~ I am now more aware of the foods I am eating! What is amazing is that 2 products, even from the same company, one can be healthy and the other can be horrible! 🤷 Knowledge is powerful

Excellent App. I just heard about this app and thought I would check it out. So I scanned a bunch of things around the house and was very surprised that the fact that the majority of things I scanned were listed a few things that weren’t listed. I have a good idea that they’re not good for me anyhow. It is definitely an app. I will use the next time I go grocery shopping. And I would recommend this to anyone that is concerned about what they are consuming or applying to this skin.

Changed my life. This app has made me way more aware of my health and has helped me to continually find higher quality and safer items.

Identification des dérivés d’insectes. J’aimerais bien que l’application émette un avertissement lorsque le produit contient des insectes. Sinon, je ne peux vivre sans et je suis abonnée pour pouvoir chercher des produits ! Merci Yuka !

I don’t want to sign up. Why do you need my email address to sign up now? I used to use this app regularly but now it requires account 🤷🏻‍♂️

Not accurate, baseless science. The app cites studies without actually looking at the actual study to make a conclusion. Here’s an example, a product will be bad because it contains a certain "cancerous" product. The study it cites was made on an animal, the sample used was 100x larger and was done directly in the eyes of the animal. It is not representative of the real use case you will have with the product. You’re better off listening to your medical professional or look online at official studies instead of basing everything on the score this app gives. Also, this app will grade any product that doesn’t contain studies about its ingredients as being good… Uranium was once thought to be good, this app would’ve said so in the 1950s since there were no studies that said that wasn’t the case.

Great app. Since we got this app it has definitely made a difference. Even some things we thought were good turned out to be bad. Very helpful for a healthier choices. :)

Amazing. Just amazing app?!? Nobel prize for this lads!!! This’s “compas” for us living in North America, being poisoned every day with big companies that absolutely don’t care which way they are going to make money. Chip food with a lot of chemicals. Thank you YUKA lads!!!

Pas efficace. Ne reconnaît pas 90% des produits que j’ai essayé

Excellent. Très bonne application

Truly Life-Changing!. If everyone gets this app, the beauty industry will change for sure! So empowering to scan and opt! I have thrown out hundreds of dollars worth of products from high-end companies, that proclaim their products are natural, beneficial, gentle, because in fact they are laden, sometimes covertly, with chemicals that are unequivocally toxic. I am quite literally converting people in the aisles of the drug store, salespeople who are thrilled this change is coming, and even my own adult children. I was happy with the free version, but joined within hours because their work is important and unbiased. I can check on the studies for any ingredient and most importantly they provide viable, safer alternatives in a wide price range. They also do a great job of addressing discrepancies between the FDA and European councils. Who knew the only safe sunscreen currently needs to be imported from Asia? Shame on the beauty industry!! Time for change. Thank you so much Yuka!!

Listing. Wish my choices would be place alphabetical for easy access

Incroyable je suis accro!!!. C’est une application complètement parfaite!!! Note absolument tout les produits à code barre (nourriture, produits, etc) je suis complètement accro et en parle à tout le monde !!!!

Yuka. C’est vraiment top👌🏽

Solid. They have most foods

Ne prend pas en compte le bio et sur note la viande et le lait. Bonjour, Pas fan de l’appli malheureusement des fruits/légumes bourrés de pesticides et de la viande ou du lait seront très bien notés. Pourtant, nul besoin de rappeler que pesticides/viandes/lait sont néfastes, ça a été clairement prouvé, plus d’excuses en 2020. Donc votre appli ne pousse pas les gens à arrêter de consommer ce genre de produits, vous y contribuez en qque sorte en y attribuant de bonne notes... une petite maj pour prendre tout ça en compte et promis je mettrai une bonne note :)

Knowledge. This is the most valuable app ever. Now I know what to not eat and am appauled at the FDA for allowing us to ingest anything with even marginal toxicity.

Love this app!. Recently diagnosed with diabetes and can not tell you how helpful this app has been! I think it is fantastic and I love when I scan a product that is not a healthy choice I get a recommendation for another product 😁

Merveilleux!. Vraiment, c’est un outil tellement précieux pour faire des meilleurs choix alimentaires et cosmétiques conscients! Hâte d’avoir la version Premium au Canada!

Tons of lies. As a holistic nutritionist I can only assume that these companies are buying their ratings. The fudge bars from Costco actually rate 3/10 for health. Not 100!!! Additionally I had my body wash rated independently and it rated 3/10 while yuka gave it 9/10. Total bull.

Amazing App. Im not one to review much but Yuka is truly an amazing app. If you want to start being conscious of the food and products you put on/in your body this is the one. It will tell you if its bad by scanning barcodes and recommend similar products that are a healthier equivalent. One of the best apps I’ve downloaded yet. Love you Yuka!

Not useful. Such a scam

great app. Thanks to the team for creating such an amazing app.. the only complain is there is no payment in CAD (through the browser) and paying in usd/euro means paying exchange rate!

I’m deleting. I appreciate that you read my comments and hope you will create a more transparent and unbiased app.

Amazing!!!!!. Couldn’t recommend this app enough! Educational and interesting- easy to use and overall so so good! Thank you to the owners who made this!!!!

Yuka. Very helpful information! I highly recommend it!

C’est du cap. Yuka a dit que lindt avait 0/100

Yuka is a lie. The app will gaslight you when it comes to unhealthy fats.

Great idea but... Results are non consistent with the reality: naturally occurring sugar in a product is rated the same way a product that got sugar added by the industrials. Great idea but more works are needed to make this app ‘a must have’

Awareness. you cannot change what you are not aware of. I thought that I was eating healthy in most areas. I was very surprised at how poor some products were rated at. For example, I have always eaten craft peanut butter. It was rated poor at 45%. I have now switched to craftonly Peanuts. It was rated at 84%. Thank you very much for creating this app.

This app has changed my life!. To the entire team at Yuka - your app has truly changed my life! I had a friend hassling me for eating too much processed foods and what he called 'toxic' beauty products. One day he had me download your app and we scanned some of my 'staples' in my fridge and that was the moment everything changed. My food and beauty products have since got a total makeover! Even my teenage boys (aged 16 and 19) walk around the grocery store saying "hey mom....scan this?". They will never eat a Jos Louis again! I tell everyone I can about this app including my new organic hairdresser, who is spreading the word to all her clients. Please pass this message of sincere gratitude onto the entire team...know that you are making such a difference! :)

Great app!. Really grateful for this app. It’s extremely eye opening. ig: @rachelsavaunnah

Valeur nutritive. Informatif pour tous les produits

Des faits qui n’en sont pas (mensonge à tendance raciste !). La seule présence de Glutamate de sodium dans un produit baisse la note de façon extrêmement drastique, clamant que ça donne des nausées et des migraines. Or il a été prouvé que c’est un mythe, propagé dans les années 70 aux États-Unis pour empêcher les restaurants asiatiques d’être des concurrents. Pour une app se vantant d’être basée sur des faits scientifiques, ça serait bien si ça ne partageait pas des mensonges racistes vieux de 50 ans.

Indispensable. My wife and I shop with our Yuka app in hand. Don’t leave home without it. Great!!!

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So useful!. I use this app for almost everything. Any cosmetic or skincare/bathroom product I purchase I pull up the scanner and with no effort at all i can see the ingredients and cleanliness rating of the product. I am so grateful for this app. there are so many harmful chemicals in daily items that aren’t disclosed or understood and if you value the cleanliness and natural aspect to your routine like i do, this is so amazing. instead of having to do a bunch of research or take my chances I can feel confident knowing i have this resource in my pocket. it works in certain food and cleaning products as well. I truly love this app, and if there more you need they have a premium version to subscribe to with a sliding pay scale.

Good start but needs work. This app is somewhat helpful but it is not 100% accurate. I’ve had to correct several products that were rated “Excellent”, but were in fact “Bad”. The ingredients were incorrect. They need to limit users from adding products if they submit incorrect ingredients. Then also give the people who correct products a star rating or something that differentials the people submitting inaccurate info from the people who submit the correct info. Also they need to list the food ingredients similar to how they list beauty products ingredients. How will we know if someone has listed the proper food ingredients when they are not visible to the user. I hate how reporting into forces use of the apple mail app. This is so archaic are inconvenient. I use gmail so I will not install the apple mail app because the developers can’t figure out how to let you report info any other way. Please fix! I have several more suggestions but I’ll write another review later.

Life-changing for the better. I never write reviews. But this fantastic app deserves more than a 5-star rating. It has given me back so much time in stores checking on ingredients. It has also granted me the certainty of using science to cut through the marketing hype and, frankly, the lies and distortions on many product labels. I love how it refers to EU regulatory standards given how weak or non-existent US standards are on skincare ingredients. I’ve thrown out heaps of dubious products, cleaned out my cabinets, and started fresh with this app. And it helps so much when a well-meaning but clueless store rep tells you a brand is “clean.” You can check that claim easily and immediately, and find out how often those sales reps are dead wrong. Wonderful app. Grateful! Thank you, Yuka

Love it!. A coworker told me about Yuka and I immediately downloaded it to my phone. It just so happened that I was making a grocery store run later in the day. I used the app to help me make some better choices in products. I went home and checked out my shampoos and lotions, oh my! I appreciate the recommendations that are provided when products rate poorly. And it was fun to discover that I have made some very good product choices. I think I will find this app even more helpful when I want to try a new product but am unsure if it is really as good as they make it out to be. Also, it keeps a history of the items you have scanned so you can go back and reference them at anytime. If you are wondering if the products you are buying are as good as they claim, this app is for you!

4 Star - Recommendations. I really like this app and I think it’s a wonderful tool for people like myself, who are trying to be more cognizant about products that we are putting in and on our body. My recommendations to make this app even better is to add “Fragrance” into scoring, as we know that there could be many different chemicals under the label “fragrance”. I think this app could be a lot more informative too by being able to click on all the ingredients and not just some. Although they may not be harmful, it would still be nice to know what they are. I also have found many products that I was unable to search or scan. Maybe make it so you can request a score for a product that isn’t listed? Like I said above, I thoroughly like this app and really like how it gives recommendations and alternatives.

Must Have!!!!. I see all these review that say nothing but bad thing about the Yuka app but I have to disagree with them, I have looked everywhere to find something wrong and I could not find a single thing wrong, what I did find is that this is by far one of the best apps of all time. If you care about your health from what you eat to what you put on your body then this is that app for you. The app is free to use but if you want a membership it is very affordable and it’s for a whole year!!!! I have change my whole life style because of this app and I have to saw I have lost much needed weight and I feel better then ever because of what I eat now. So I hope you give Yuka a change I bet you will feel a lot better

This application is AMAZING.. As adults we truly get away with using any and every product we see marketed as “healthy, clean, or natural etc”. We aren’t taught about the hazardous chemicals, and the market of products makes it no better than to have all those weirdly pronounce ingredients on the nutrition label. This application YUCA makes it easier to understand the ingredients we are putting into our bodies & hair. I know it’s inevitable to completely consume 100% 5 ingredients foods 24/7 but with YUCA my conscious feels more at ease with shopping for beauty or food products. Honestly it takes time to scan the barcodes but it’s more convenient than searching up every single ingredient. Definitely recommend.

Best App For Healthful Living!. I was introduced to this App by my daughter-in-law; we both were working on becoming more “organic” in our choices. This App is so easy to use, yet so revealing that we filled a garbage can with food and cosmetics that were filled with hazardous ingredients. It is very revealing to find the number of hazardous elements that are allowed in, not only our cosmetics, but in our food! I was appalled. But Yuka gives us quite a variety of healthy and safe alternatives to replace the items that we threw away. Now we are familiar with the healthy brands and can build a relationship with them. I never would have know that certain additives were harmful, even banned by other countries, that are allowed in the products we use in the U.S. So you will not regret downloading this App. All you have to do is scan the barcode on makeup, soap, and foods of every kind to find out if they score Bad-Poor-Good or Excellent. On a humorous note, my son scanned my bottle of Jack Daniels whisky and Yuka’s response was, “We do not rate alcohol. But you know what you’re doing.” We laughed about that for an hour! I highly recommend Yuka. It will rate your product, give you recommendations and explain what is good or bad about the one rated. Spread the word!

Spread the word!. maligatormomtx’s review below illustrates a very strong point about Yuka needing to make the distinction between sugar and high fructose corn syrup. I suspect this independent development team (that’s only 11 people strong btw) will get around to making that improvement. It’s a young app. I give it 5 stars without a doubt. We have needed a tool like this for a long time. The fact that they’re dedicated to maintaining their independence is commendable and beautiful to see. It would also ruin the app’s integrity any other way since the whole app is predicated on objective data and trust. The point is: it’s awesome. Download it to find out. It can get better, and I believe it will. You should buy a premium membership. Please make it a priority and tell your friends.

Thank you YUKA for developing this app!. As a parent and an individual i am always hearing or reading something bad about a product i thought was good and am left with complete uncertainty about EVERYTHING! I just want to buy something and KNOW it’s safe. Especially when it comes to my children. I don’t know what each chemical is and/or if it’s harmful, so thank you for doing the work for me. I’m able to scan products in the store “before buying them” and get a rating 0/100 if harmful and a list of healthier alternatives. I love that your not funded or supported by any of the companies selling the products. I highly recommend this app to everyone and have my entire family using it.

Changed the way I buy things!. This app is honestly a miracle. I’m frequently guilty of buying things without thinking twice, and Yuka helps me control that impulse because often the things that I’m wanting to impulse buy are the worst for me by far, and by ensuring I look twice I’ve been able to spend a lot less on things I don’t need. I appreciate that you don’t have to pay to use almost all of its services, and that you can adjust your subscription price. Nothing about the apps framework feels nefarious or like they’re trying to extort you, the only thing in mind seems to be ease of use for the end user. Yuka is a gem, and I applaud the scientists and innovators who put aside their time to make it!

Absolutely brilliant. I was in Costco trying to read a very small label to see if product contained seed oils when another customer told me about this app and scanned the product for me. So impressed so went home and downloaded the app. Started scanning my pantry and then my bathroom cabinet. How shocked was I as the bathroom cabinet contents. Worse offenders are the so called natural products and sunscreens especially those targeted at kids. I am now on a mission to share this app with all my friends and family as well as complete strangers I see trying to read labels. So far I have approached 3 strangers trying to read the small print and they have been so grateful that some of them downloaded the app in the store. Thank you for a wonderful app that is so easy to use and really life changing.

If you have ANY allergies. You MUST try this app. Even though there are a limited number of allergies included at this time, the potential is enormous. Even just scanning things quickly to see whether or not they have gluten in them has been a huge timesaver. But what is even better, is that the app provides multiple recommendations for alternatives. For anyone that has had to go on food elimination diet to figure out what they are sensitive to, you know how frustrating is to only eliminate foods and cosmetics with zero help to find alternatives. This app changes that! Please give it a try, and hopefully as more people use the app, the developers will be able to add additional sensitivities and allergens to the list.

My favorite app. I love that it recommends healthier options to poorly rated products and labels the products from bad to excellent that can be saved in a favorites folder for your reference later. I plan to shop only from my favorites list to keep me and my family healthy. Thank you so much for coming out with this app. Sometimes when I'm in the grocery store I see someone shopping for poorly rated items and feel compelled to tell them about the Yuka app. But, I don't want to offend anyone. It's just hard for me to know information that could help people and not be able to share. I have however told friends and family. Keep up the GREAT work Yuka family. I love you guys.

Great for if you only use products that have a barcode. I have a lot of products that don’t have a barcode or don’t show up when you search them. It’s very inconvenient when I want to know what’s in my product. I have different food or sauces from local stores that aren’t going to be on here. Or different cosmetics that were made specifically for my hair, that doesn’t have a barcode and also isn’t on here when you search it. It would be super nice if it would scan ingredients for you. Or tell you about a product based on the information you give it, without HAVING to have a barcode. Cause NOT ALL products HAVE a barcode. I can’t seem to find any information on so many of my products on any apps. So it would be so cool if Yuka could add some better features to their app.

Easy Answer to What’s Healthier?. This app answers the question that I have over and over again standing in the grocery store of “What’s healthier?” It’s a true necessity for me now whenever I shop. I’ve often been so surprised of what foods are actually worse for me since they try to trick you on the label. I’m trying out new foods thanks to the recommendations on the app. The only addition that I wish the app had was a “Comments” type section on each product where users can leave reviews of the food. Yes something may be healthier for you, but is it good? Once I find a good recommendation I often have to leave the app to search elsewhere for reviews of the product before purchasing. It would be nice to have this all on one place on the app. Other than that, thank you for this amazing tool!

THANK YOU!. I was introduced to this app about a month ago, while shopping at Sam’s. A customer was scanning food, and showed the app to another lady and myself. The other lady and myself did not know each other, but we were all through the store, scanning everything like crazy women and laughing. I have Since moved the icon to my home button and I use this app probably 10 times a day. I have thrown out food from my cabinets and I have bought food based on the incredibly helpful information. You will get scientific details as to why something is bad for you, like I did not know that blue food dye causes DNA/ cellular damage. My husband was just diagnosed with heart failure so now I have another tool to help me make the best decisions for him. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS! 💜💜💜

Still 5 stars, but…. I have pretty much relied on Yuka to help me clean up most of my food and beauty products. Honestly if I didn’t have Yuka, I probably wouldn’t have lasted as long as I have on bettering my health and my weight loss journey. I love it so much that I payed for the upgrade. It taught me what nitrates and sulfates were and the effects that they have. Before Yuka, I would never think twice about petroleum and parabens. I have read so many warnings, that I feel like if I didn’t have the app, I would be ok because I can pick out the really “bad” additives. Well, it looks like I might have to, because I just did the update and all the additive warnings are gone and it only has the ingredients now?! I sure hope there’s a fix in the works, because I am gonna miss this app!

Reccomend if your trying to become more mindful of ingredients’. Loved this app. I originally got it for hygienic product as I’ve seen a massive improvement in my skin switching from skincare with active ingredients to using dr bronners bar soap and vaseline. But this app does everything! Not only does it tell you the exact information on all of the ingredients in your products, it notify you which is high medium or low risk and how they can affect certain groups. Not to mention, they also have recommendations for healthier switches for ANYTHING! Yes, I’m becoming a super crunchy Karen, but I love this app. They do too rated reccomendations aswell! They don’t favor certain brands, I’ve seen expsensive companies like Whole Foods to more cost affordable companies like Walmart all in the same tally. Great app for people wanting to become healthier

The app I’ve been waiting for!. I’ve been wanting to look into every ingredient that’s in everything I have been eating and feeding my family, but realistically that’s impossible. I am so relieved this app was made! It is so user friendly, straight forward and they really make it easy for you to understand. No more guessing what these crazy ingredients are! This app really breaks it down for you and I absolutely love that they give recommendations on other similar products that are way healthier for you. This app changed the way I look at food and beauty products and puts my mind at ease knowing that I’m no longer hurting myself and my family with harmful ingredients that I had no idea were even harming us!

Disabled veteran. I would appreciate if you work with doctors like dr Gundry, dr Peter Osborne, dr Jockers, a lot of wholelistic medical practitioners. I would also like if you expanded your products to more items that are sold at sprouts and Whole Foods.. the reason I’m not so happy with the current app is because the rating is a little confusing because some doctors say fat is not bad and that is you change your diet to eat more natural things that some added sodium isn’t bad and other things. So I’m conflicted with the opinion of the and the information that doctors are talking about in thier books and they provide facts and research to back up thier claims so the app can be confusing. I hope the app will add a ability to categorize items and create separate list. Also a profile to edit and share on social media. So hopefully they consider more information and expand so I can come back and edit my review to more stars.

I love Yuca!. I found out about Yuca in a comment on Instagram. The moment I downloaded I started scanning everything in my household😄 Got rid of half of my food in the pantry, some I was surprised to find out they are actually good with no additives and that’s what I most look for, additives. I don’t care for high fat and salt content as I do Keto. I go around the grocery aisles scanning every single product, many I used to like, once you see what they put in it there is no way you will put that in your body. I told all my friends about Yuca and will keep telling everyone. I think you guys are awesome and are helping a lot of people. I will subscribe too and will be waiting for your ratings on alcoholic beverages 🍷Thank you!

Yuka has changed my life!. Everyone should have this app!!!! I’ve always been interested in changing out any daily items that have harmful chemicals or preservatives in them, but I never knew where to start. Yuka has made that process exceedingly smooth. I started using this free app 2 months ago and it’s changed my outlook on what I put in and on my body and skin. The ability to scan while food or beauty shopping is such a game changer. Although the app is free I upgraded to the paid version so I can search instead of just scanning items - you choose how much you want to pay. I hope they receive the continual support they deserve and keep growing and expanding this amazing app!

Amazing. What an amazing app! With a pay what you think is fair model for a premium membership this app is simply genius. This app provides quick and easily accessible information for facts about nutrition and what you may be eating or what you’re going to eat. It’s a great app to go to the store with to be conscious about what you may be eating or putting into your body. I really like how there is a scale to measure things that may be an issue if consumed in large portions. I enjoy the additives feature that tells you what additives are safe or what is dangerous. I also really enjoy being able to see the amount of protein in things i may be eating in a simple format and something that is easily readable. Thank you, Yuka developers for creating such an amazing app.

Love/dislike. Currently, I am on chemotherapy pills after a double mastectomy for breast cancer. I’ve been using Yuka to rid my home of bad products and it’s mostly been helpful. But here’s the problem, I’m finding tons of discrepancies. One example, take Oatsome regular and Oatsome barista. They both have the same serving size, same sugar content, same everything, except barista version has a little more fat and ups the calories by 40 per serving. But yet it’s poorly rated and the regular is an excellent rating. Also, when ridding my home of all these bad products, I’m searching for healthier options, which the app suggests. But it would be so much easier for me (and more profitable for the app) if they would provide a link to purchase the healthier option! Why not do that?

Blow away and So GRATEFUL. Wow!! I’m very selective about taking my time to write reviews when I feel it’s warranted good or bad. I have to say been pretty blown away by this app just even on the free version. We scan everything now and I’m amazed by what I’m learning. Things I thought were good choices for my family, I’m coming to understand isn't always the case. I’m taking the time to read why as it’s also beautifully broken down into sections completely explain why the choice is good or bad. Thank you to the creator for making such an awesome app! Makes learning about these things engaging. Even if you don’t wanna learn about the why’s. Your first shown a score making it super simple to determine whether to make the purchase or not. Highly recommend to learn how to make healthier choices for their family.

Extremely important to me as I navigate rosacea issues. I had been very happy with Yuka for checking on foods, but had almost forgotten it can also check on skin care products. Yuka is a Tremendous help on skin care products and I found the products that I needed. I had researched rosacea skin care products using rosacea articles and reviews, thinking that was sufficient. I looked at the ingredient list of one product in particular and found it had some hazardous preservatives. Checked this product with Yuka and Yuka confirmed my judgment of the product. I have now spent approximately 2 hours at various stores picking up a product, scanning it and putting the product back on the shelf. Found what I needed!!!

Leaves out major environmental concerns. I took two stars away because it doesn’t have more concern for environmental impacts as well as chemicals. To me that’s just as important as hazardous additives. So I take the ratings as a Base. Then decide by doing my own research. While almond milk for example is rated as an excellent choice , the production and farming aspects aren’t. Almonds take much more water than other grains or even watering cows. Also. The flowers from almond trees are deadly to bees which we know are essential to any plant survival. So to rate milk as equal to plant based such as oat or pea milk is ultimately a disservice. Because milk isn’t as society friendly as advertised. Cafo animals are not the best thing for anyone or the planet. I just think there’s room for improvement here. I’m interested in the best choice I can make overall. Rather just additive conscious

Perfect. If you take your nutrition serious and really want to see what is in your food, then this is the app for you. I was shocked and amazed to think of all the things I was putting in my body that was toxic for me and cancer is such a huge problem nowadays I think we could all learn something from this app. This app has me rethinking a lot of things and things I am going to change in my life. There are so much process junk in all these foods, and this app will help you to avoid making those poor choices. It’s not going to give you alternatives, but that is your job to figure it out. If you are taking your nutrition serious it’s a no-brainer I don’t think this app needs to have an alternative food source for something that you pick that is no good for you as other reviewers have mentioned

Not accurate, duplicated ratings and inconsistent. I really wanted this app to be reliable, and I have a paid subscription, but sadly I find many errors in it: missing ingredients, duplicated products with different ratings... And when I report an error they ask me to provide the information, to take the picture of the ingredients, etc. I pay a subscription. I don’t work for free. They should be the ones checking the products and finding the correct information. Plus the product pictures look really bad. The idea behind it is good, but I don’t find it too reliable. ——- Thank you for your reply. It sounds great, but as I said I often find the same product with different ratings listed more than once, products with not all ingredients listed and it is very disappointing specially when you pay for the app. So the idea is good but it needs lots of improvements or more people hired to keep the app up to date.

Love everything about this. It truly is a terrific app that’s helping me make slightly better decisions. I’ve noticed with myself, I’m not super worried about the nutritional/macro breakdown, but I’m big time into knowing what kind of food chemicals/preservatives are in the stuff I’m eating/using daily. Even my daily lotion had some red flags. Ignorance is bliss but knowledge is power and if feeling bliss means putting yourself at higher risk, then no thanks. I will say I’m starting to hear more and more about how awful seed/vegetable oils are for our health and so far, this app has no acknowledgment of that. So that would potentially be something I would like to be taken into consideration at some point down the road but overall, keep up the good work and keep up the human health empowerment🤙

Life changing. I recommend this app to all my friends and family!! This app has been so eye opening to all the horrible ingredients hidden in every day products. It has been so helpful in finding alternatives to unsafe products. If the government isn’t going to put a ban on these toxins being allowed in things we put in and on our body then it is up to us, sadly. But fortunately for us, we have this amazing app that makes it so easy to find clean and healthy products. If you’re on the fence of the paid version, I say do it! I did free for awhile and it was definitely beneficial, but being able to actually type in and search products from home is way more convenient than having to be at the store to scan it.

One food rating flaw. I love this app and I love the section for beauty products! The rating system is great. The one thing that I don’t like however, is the lack of settings on the food side. I don’t like seeing that some of the foods I eat are “poor” simply because the app thinks they are too high in calories. I didn’t download this app for calories I downloaded it to check for harmful additives. I just wish there was a setting to turn off the calorie rating and the sugar rating. There’s no reason my organic coffee creamer is a “poor” food for having 6g of sugar in a tablespoon. I just want to know if there is additives. Maybe something to consider with the next update? Otherwise keep up the good work! I plan on keeping my premium membership active.

Life changing. I’m not even kidding when I say this app changed and potentially saved my life. Since I learned about the insane amount of chemicals and toxins being used in beauty products and foods, I immediately downloaded this app so I knew exactly what I was using on my body and consuming. Now I’ve never been healthier, and the app is already so useful without the premium subscription. It gives me recommendations to use instead of other harmful products, and it has a history tab so I never lose track of all the foods and beauty/self care products I’ve read about. Like I said, amazing app. I’ve already had 5 different friends of mine download it and love it. I’ve never felt safer about what I’m buying until now.

Great app. I work in a beauty supply shop and saw customers in the isles using this app, and decided to finally give it a shot about a month ago after seeing it all over my Instagram reels, and I definitely will say this is a useful app. A lot of the cosmetics I'd been using were full of harmful chemicals, and thanks to the recommendations I was able to find replacement products. I will say some of the time the recommendations aren't even the same as the product scanned, like I've scanned heat protectant and the recommended products were hairsprays. But over all I definitely recommend this app! It gives you the opportunity to learn what all of those ingredients on the label really mean instead of just skipping over it and using a product not knowing any negative effects it could have.

Perfect. Everyone should have this.. This is exactly what I was looking for. After having been diagnosed with cancer I decided I would make changes to my diet. I’ve done some research about what I should avoid but it was always difficult to remember it all when you have limited time in a store shopping for groceries. This app made it much easier to keep track of and avoid foods I feed myself and my family. I will not shop without it anymore. Hopefully others start being more conscious as well so businesses start to take our health more seriously. It’s dollars over people right now so this is how we combat them. Stop buying products that poison you. Make them make products you will buy. Healthy products.

WOW. I love this app! I have had it for a few days and it has already changed my life! It is so easy to use ,and it is straight to the point! I have wanted to get all of the hazards additives from food and cosmetics out of my life, and now I can! I have suffered for many years in pain and know, that the additives in everything has made it so much worse. I am so excited to see the difference in me! When I have gone food shopping this week, I spoken to so many people about this app also my friends and family they all love it and they all downloaded the app! I have never been so excited about an app I became a member today and will stay a member forever! Thank you so much for creating this app it will change the way we shop forever!

Would be better if it worked 100%. This app is good with probably 70% of all products. My problem is with the other 30%. Sometimes when you scan or search an item, it doesn’t read all the ingredients listed on the label. I’ve found this to be too common with a lot of different products. I’ve gone on to use certain products that actually had harmful ingredients in them but since the app didn’t read that it had those particular ingredients, it gave it a high rating and I blindly bought those items. Through the usage of this app, however, I’ve become familiar with a lot of different ingredients that are harmful and so I’m able to double check the products I buy just in case Yuka does not read certain ingredients. I’m just saying, it would be nice if it worked 100% of the time. Besides that, I really do love this app.

The best app ever!!!. I never write reviews or rate apps, but I had to for this one! This app is so convenient & helpful, I use it every time I go shopping, I LOVE IT!! I like how it simply says if a product is rated “excellent, good, poor, or bad”… which is very helpful in being able to chose the right products, makes everything so much easier. I also like how it lists the sources where the information can be confirmed, about the ingredients, how they react to our body & what health problems they can cause. I especially love how it also lists recommendations for other better product choices if a product is rated either “poor or bad”… it’s so VERY convenient & helpful! I literally cannot live without this app, it’s the best! Thank you sooo very much for this amazing app, I use it everyday!!! :)

Love this app. I’ve never cared enough about an app to take the time to rate it. I love this app. It’s a fantastic tool to have in my pocket. A friend told me about it and I downloaded it as soon as I got home. I scanned so many things that I use and was absolutely shocked on some. I now check product barcodes at the store so I know if it’s a good buy or not. I had been questioning my bargain shampoo lately because my hair was coming out like crazy. Yea.. it rated terribly. I love the suggestions because it recommends products I may have never even thought of before. Thank you so much for this app. I know I will have a healthier life because of it. Yuka takes the guesswork &/or research out completely and gives you exactly what you need to know in less than a second.

Yuka review. I just started using this app last week. I found it on Tik tok and ever since I’ve been scanning stuff around my kitchen to see if healthy stuff I had like granola bars were healthy and they weren’t. I wasn’t surprised that most of the stuff I had was rated poor or bad from the app since there is a lot of sugary stuff in my kitchen but now that I’m aware of it I want to prevent myself from buying more unhealthy food so when I go to the grocery store I scanned products to see if it was worth buying and it’s really convenient since it tells you why it’s rated excellent food bad or poor. I love this app!!! And it also prevents me from buying stuff that is marked as “healthy” when it isn’t. There are so many good things about this app I love it so much it’s the best app to exist!!!❤️

One of the best apps I’ve ever downloaded. I’m not one for caring to much about apps but this one is a must to have. It has saved me from eating certain foods that I was lead to believe is good for me. You WILL be appalled on the hazardous chemicals companies put in everything food. Since I had this app, I found out that 80% of the food I eat is harmful to my body and attitude! Yes attitude! Many of the foods I scanned were known to cause ADD/ADHD and I’m feeling much better everyday. I feel like I’m sleeping better and I feel that I have more energy. This is crazy! I live in a country (USA)that will only ban something is it’s proven harmful. By then, it would be to late! This app will save you. I am a Yuka man now! Thank you!

GREAT, BUT…. obviously you have to do you're own critical thinking when it comes to a food product. It will score something lower just because of calories or sugar content etc.. If the SUGAR IS NATURAL that shouldn’t mater. Its the added sugars that aren’t cane sugar that is concerning. Just don't put something down if this app says its not 100. I mostly use this app to quickly find bad ingredients. So i give it a 3 star because this app gives a low score on perfectly healthy food. Maybe… Edit: thank you for the response… i see there is a user base that also could do some heavy lifting for you guys especially in the US.. keep up the good work because we in the US are being poisoned daily and this app is great fro finding bad things fast at the store

Outstanding eye opening app. I’ve never reviewed any apps, but this one is incredible. As someone on a nontoxic journey to rid my house of carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, allergens and irritants in my beauty, health and home products, this app has guided me to the actual cleanest products available which lack toxic ingredients. I like how I can view items by rating and learn about each ingredient and mark favorites. I love scanning products on the shelf so I can shop in person and make educated purchases. This is a must have app for anyone that cares about their health and the wellness of their family. It will change your life. I don’t use it for the food aspect but that’s a great tool too. Definitely upgrade to the Premium version, it’s well worth it!

Needs a minor fix. I love this app. It has helped me tremendously in making good choices about what I buy, especially being plant-based. My only complaint is when I need to add a product. The app wants me to take a picture of the nutrition label as well as the ingredients. Not all boxes and labels look the same and when I go to take a picture the app creates a little square where you are supposed to fit the labels in. The bad part is sometimes the square doesn’t recognize the actual size of the list of ingredients or the nutrition label. You can’t change the square or adjust the photo so 9 times out of 10 I can’t get an accurate picture. It’s just a portion of the actual label. Super frustrating when trying to add new products. Outside of that, I love the app. Hopefully that makes sense and somehow can be fixed in the future.

Great app!. This app is awesome! The rating system is very informative, the scan procedure has been flawless, the search works well, and so far I’ve found 99% of what I’ve looked for. Probably my favorite part is the recommendations. So far they seem to be things I can easily find in my local grocery store and things I probably would enjoy just as much as my original. The only flaw I’ve found is this review section. It is very slow to come up on my iPhone and if I make a mistake and use the spacebar to get to it, the keyboard disappears. The only way I’ve found for it to come back is to minimize the window then go back in. Keyboard pops right up. I like this app so much, I paid for the Premium version right away. Thanks for a great eating lifestyle fixing app!

PSEUDOSCIENCE. PLEASE people I am begging you, do not download this. The basis of this app seemed to be confusing to me because I did not understand how they were ascribing these “scores” to food products. I looked on the website and found that they use a nutritionist who is French to review their sources. I have not been able to find any related education, and I know that the term nutritionist is not regulated in the US. Registered dietitians is the only term that can be regulated.I went ahead and downloaded the app, and found that many of the articles that are sourced from companies and organizations with bias. And they claim not to have bias? So that doesn’t make sense. Many of the articles had even been taken down, and some were not even peer reviewed.. So please take this information with a grain of salt. The demonization of preservatives and processed foods for no reason needs to stop, especially when they are causing people to have unhealthy relationships with food.

I use it daily!! Changed the way I live.. I found this app suggested on Lemon8 and after downloading, scanned every product in my cabinet. Some I was really surprised at! Such as many highly respected health-toteing brands actually have multiple products with toxic ingredients. I would’ve never known! All items I’ve found on the app have the correct ingredients for the product. You buy the expensive product because it has retinol or peptides and don’t question all the other ingredients. Aside from the beauty supplies, this app has changed the way I grocery shop. When I think of a food I might want to buy in the future, I first look it up on the Yuka app and determine if I should make a different choice in food or brand! I looked up raspberry jam today and found two products with an Excellent rating and then added one to my future shopping list. Yuka helps me buy smarter. The only downside is that features are still being built out since it’s user funded and in on-going development stages. I recommend that we can categorize our favorites! I’d like to separate beauty products from food products and even fruits from vegetables from snacks. This way when I go in my favorites, it’s easier to quickly navigate and find what I’m looking for. Thank you sm! Can’t wait to see the future of the app.

GET THIS APP NOW!!’. It is such an awesome app! It’s almost completely free unless you want the extra options of allergy’s and things like that, or vegan and vegetarian things. You can still scan those but it won’t tell you if each product is vegan and all that unless you look at the actual product of that makes sense. Even if you did want that you can pay as little as $8.99 for a WHOLE YEAR! If your allergies aren’t listed you can even request them to add it! It shows you recommendations for food thats rated bad (a better option) it’s just one of the best apps I’ve gotten, I use it pretty much every day, it really surprises you to see what we put in our bodies, especially sunscreens and things like that, that are supposed to be good for us!

Love YUKA. When I first heard of the Yuka app, I downloaded it, scanned many cosmetics and foods that we had in our household, and was alarmed at how much toxicity exists in these products. The first day I used it I threw away at least $100 worth of facial creams, skin, creams shampoos and deodorants. My whole family uses it when food shopping and we only buy foods that do not contain hazardous ingredients and that score high on the app. We also like the recommendations that the app provides. We have passed the knowledge of the app onto our friends and neighbors and even shared it with some fellow shoppers when appropriate. Fantastic app that will positively influence manufacturers to eliminate harmful ingredients or suffer a permanent loss in the sale of their harmful products.