Yuka

Yuka

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Updated on 16.12.2024

Yuka analyzes food, cosmetic, and hygiene products and provides detailed information about their composition. Find out how healthy your shopping cart is!

Test foods and cosmetics and find out if they are healthy for you

They say you are what you eat. So if you want to be good, you have to eat better. And Yuka, an app that lets you know how good what you're eating before you buy it, can help.

All nutritional information simply by scanning the barcode

This application features a barcode reader that scans the barcode of any product to determine its nutritional values ​​and if it contains any additives that you should avoid. This way we can find out how many calories, sugars, fats, carbohydrates or salt are in everything we put in our mouths.

Everything that is scanned is recorded in our personal history and given different color codes that indicate the quality of the food. In this way we can see how healthy our daily diet is in proportion: excellent, good, fair or bad. This information is compared to data from Open Food Facts.

But the app isn't just limited to groceries. Yuka also provides comprehensive information on the cosmetic and hygiene products we use (creams, bath gels, shampoos, shaving foams, etc.) so that the care we take about our diet can also be applied to our external care.

These are the main features of the app:

  • It enables products to be analyzed directly in the supermarket using barcodes.
  • It evaluates the scanned products according to their nutritional quality, the presence of additives and the biological dimension of the product.
  • She is able to summarize the purchases of the last 30 days and analyze the impact of these products on health.
  • If she discovers a poorly rated product, it will show similar alternatives with better composition.
  • The results for the analysis of the individual foods were compiled from the free Open Food Facts database.
  • It can also be used for cosmetics and toiletries.

What's new in the latest version?

  • Minor bug fixes.

Requirements and further information:

  • Minimum operating system requirements: Android 5.0.
  • The app offers in-app purchases.
  • Instructions for installing XAPKs on Android