App Profile: Yuka - Food & Cosmetic Scanner

I’m kinda gay

Rating: 5/5

To all the people giving bad reviews saying this app’s rating system is oversimplified, I agree. But if that’s how you feel, then simply don’t base your food and other product choices off of the score alone. It’s not like they give products a score and just tell you to “trust me bro.” The app is a wonderful tool for simplifying all the ingredients of a product, and it distinguishes the different levels of risk in certain ingredients. Just because it labels something as low risk, doesn’t mean they’re telling you that it’s forbidden to use or consume. It’s simply telling you what some research has suggested, and you can take that with a grain of salt. Maybe check out some of the sources they literally cite on every risk-labeled product. It’s great for breaking down all the complicated unreadable ingredients in a quick and simple way. I don’t have the time (or effort frankly) to do painstaking research on the dozens of products I consume every single day. I live in the US this is a consumerist society. Again, I don’t find the scoring system 100% reliable but that’s because this is an app and a lot of people wouldn’t even consider becoming more health conscious if there wasn’t some tool to dumb it down for them. I think I could have articulated this all better but I hope whoever, if anybody, reads this they get the point.

erieholl

Rating: 4/5

i don’t usually write reviews but this app is a game changer. however, there is one thing i’d like you guys to consider. I was diagnosed with celiac disease last year, and I just don’t really understand why you have to pay to scan the product for gluten. I already have trouble with some companies lying on their labels and cross contamination with gluten. I really don’t think I should pay for it if I can just read the label to see if it has wheat. I already have enough trouble trying to untangle these ingredients just to see if it has components of wheat. I’d rather not have to read a label every single time I grocery shop. I’d rather just be able to scan it. Also one more thing, Yuka displayed a product as good, no harmful preservatives, but when I looked at the label, it had six so I reported it and they fixed it and then they asked me if I want to email the company about this and that 700 people already emailed them. So riddle me this if you guys already know that 700 people are emailing this company about these preservatives then why did it scan as no risky additives or preservatives? Why did I have to report? It makes me feel like I now have to read every single ingredient. I don’t wanna have to call you guys out. I want y’all to fix this. otherwise it’s a really helpful app, but you guys need to take him into consideration people with allergies they can’t help. They have no choice and don’t want to pay just to not die. Thank you.

maligatormomtx

Rating: 4/5

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.