Yuka
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4.6
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Developer
Yuka Apps
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Category
Health & Fitness
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Version
4.29
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Android OS
5
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Downloads
390M
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Content rating
3
Pro
👍 Yuka’s fast barcode scanning delivers clear health scores and ingredient breakdowns for foods and cosmetics, enabling instant purchase decisions. The app evaluates nutritional quality, additives and harmful ingredients, showing simple color-coded ratings, concise explanations and suggested healthier alternatives so users can quickly assess safety and suitability for personal needs.
👍 The app offers personalized recommendations and tracks dietary preferences, allergies, and intolerances, suggesting healthier alternatives tailored to your needs. Yuka saves scan history and favorites, helping users monitor progress, discover better options, and make lasting improvements to diet and beauty routines with clear tips and educational explanations.
👍 Yuka relies on an independent, science‑based scoring system and an extensive, regularly updated database covering both food and cosmetics. It explains the reasons behind each score, cites ingredient risks, links to scientific sources, and recommends safer substitutes—providing trustworthy, transparent guidance for healthier shopping decisions and clear, actionable steps to reduce exposure to concerning ingredients.
Con
👎 Yuka’s product database can be inconsistent across regions, so many local brands or newer items may be missing or inaccurately categorized. That forces users to add products manually or rely on incomplete information, reducing scanning convenience and the app’s usefulness for people living outside major markets.
👎 Yuka reduces complex nutritional profiles to a single score, which can oversimplify health implications. It doesn't account for portion sizes, individual medical needs, or overall dietary patterns, so a "green" product may still be unsuitable for certain diets and a "red" item might be acceptable in moderation.
👎 The app’s assessment methods lack full transparency, relying on ingredient lists without disclosure of weighting rules or concentrations. Cosmetic evaluations particularly suffer because hazards are flagged based on presence alone rather than dose, and some advanced features and detailed analyses are locked behind a subscription.
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