Is tracking your food purchases good for your health?
Summary
The Yuka app, developed in France, helps people check the healthiness of food, cosmetics, and toiletries by scanning product barcodes. It uses a simple color system to show whether a product is good, bad, or could be better for health and has millions of users worldwide, especially in the U.S.Key Facts
- Yuka lets users scan barcodes of products to rate their healthiness with green, yellow, or red signals.
- The app has a database with six million products and adds about 1,200 new items daily.
- Yuka started in France in 2015 and now has 85 million users in 12 countries, with 28 million in the U.S. alone.
- It rates not only food but also cosmetics and toiletries.
- Yuka suggests healthier alternatives and shows detailed nutritional and additive information.
- The French government created a Nutri-Score labeling system, giving an easy-to-understand overall health score on packaged foods.
- Many big food companies use Nutri-Score labels, but some avoid it when their products score poorly.
- Yuka and the crowdsourced Open Food Facts database fill information gaps that food labels don’t cover.
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