Yuka Reviews 

Identification of products is good but the identification of risk is seriously flawed. If there is an artificial sweetener detected this results in a boilerplate verdict, regardless of dosage. It can be easy to be unnecessarily panicked as a result. Very little is given in terms of scientific evidence is presented and the claim that they are not paid does not preclude their personal bias.
Read with care.

My son first told me about Yuka a few years ago…he lives in Bali. He also introduced the app to my daughter, who lives in Portugal, and my other daughter in Florida. We all use this app on a daily basis.
Yuka has opened all of our eyes to making better choices when we shop, especially when it comes to our health and well-being. We can’t thank the founders enough for creating such a helpful and empowering app. 👏👏👏

Excellent company!! These people are extremely altruistic and caring!! They do work for people's better health and do an amazing job in letting us know how we can live healthier and better lives!! Thank you, YUKA, so much for all the amazing work you all do!! :)

Made me feel like everything I ate was bad for me, the only thing that's come up good is a tin of baked beans. Puts you off eating most things

Beyond 🧡 this App, my choices of 'Healthy Options' were dictated by packaging, not anymore! Yuka has certainly cleaned up how I now choose to eat...To Julie & the team -
THANKYOU

I used to have zero discernment when buying food, and with my wife's allergies, Yuka's completely changed how we look at what we buy. She was even a bit horrified to discover "safe" cosmetics that were actually causing her problems. Surprised at how many things I'd trusted for years - way more processed and often with "bad news" additives etc – too much sodium etc - than the label let on. A bit of a wake-up call — I guess food producers simply can't fit every ingredient on a small label. It's saved me money too. A lot of "premium" and convenience products I bought without thinking scored badly, so I dropped them — no sacrifice, just less waste and less impulse spending on stuff that wasn't doing me any favours. This is a game changer. I have even lost a fair bit of weight because its pushing me to better food. If you don’thave any food or cosmetic allergies – this product is a seriously good help because finally you can get to see what you really are eating and drinking.

I like this app. I do leave the store with a LOT less than I was planning on buying lol. Basically when Everything that says it's super healthy on the box.... isn't. The app shows you why. I'm aware that some of it might not be 100% correct. There's things that say it's a "Bad" item but it's Only because of too many calories lol. I'll still buy that one & eat it on a day im not watching my calories as closely! I scan my makeup, my hair products, etc. I also then look at the ingredients on the item if comes up as "Bad" to use my Own judgement on whether or not I'll still use it. Use your brain too guys. We still have them in our heads believe it or not!

Love the site. Without it, I would be buying bad stuff and recking my health!
You guys are amazing!

They just are destroying good products and are based in opinions ; not in serious and scientific proves on what they sayd.

Yuka has helped me make better choices. There are still some foods and drinks that are my favorites that are “poor or bad” but I only eat those once in a while. I use it every time I go grocery shopping. I highly recommend using this App!

It has changed my life. I was always scanning the ingredients and making sure everything was clean and wholesome. I have allergies and have to be so careful about products I use. This app is my go to for everything. I have recommended and endorsed it to so many people. It’s horrendous to see the awful ingredients in the Bid Brands just because of marketing. A truly amazing app

Don’t trust it! This ridiculous, scare mongering app, with no scientific back up to their claims, will fill your head with absolute crap about even naturally occurring plant extracts in a product deeming them ‘moderate’ but then giving the overall score of an item as ‘bad’ when it’s only 2 ‘moderate’ ingredients, whereas everything else is classed as ‘low-risk’. Complete codswallop!

Love this app. We all eat healthier now that we have this app. We scan everything

Unfortunately I have no trust in the accuracy of this app. Whilst it is fun to scan products for information, do not rely on the result. One of my skin care products was rated as terrible, when I looked deeper they had listed a wrong ingredient in the product. Another example is that that one version of ice confectionary was rated as excellent whist another version of the same brand in a different flavour but with the same ingredients was rated as terrible. Feedback remains unanswered and the product listed remains unchanged.

Bad app. Plays into unscientific fear mongering. They proud themselves to follow scientific standards and expert panel advice. However, they randomly „overrule“ the same experts who’s advice they claim to follow, because they think that one publication they found erases the other 100 publications that couldn’t validate a claim. They have ZERO scientific integrity. They don’t follow necessary ethics or scientific procedures. Remember: their business is fear mongering. The more afraid you are the more money they make. I run a personal care brand and their system for cosmetic products can be easily gamed. We reduced transparency on ingredients, scrapped voluntary disclosure statements and got rewarded with a higher score. This is Yuka!

Honestly most of the bad reviews must be coming from product companies with bad ratings.
Subscription is a choice, you choose the amount.
Information is worth everything, most product already have a rating and it’s honestly eye opening. I changed a lot of my grocery routine since I downloaded the app.

The reason Yuka is great for me is I have to monitor and research food before I eat because I have Chronic Kidney Disease stage 3a and I have changed my diet to slow down the decline of my kidneys there is no cure. I still determine what I eat and 80% of my food is out of my garden. The rest I need to buy. It's so overwhelming getting it right but detrimental if you get it wrong. Anyway I use various resources to educate myself. But this helps in supermarkets eg I like Peanut Butter but not all are the same , the same with bread. So after checking labels I pick 3 that I'd probably buy then I scanned them and one that I felt I wouldn't probably buy came out on to as 90% on top. The others had additives I did not know of. The bread that came out on top was very expensive bit it's more expensive to be sick. I also sometimes test out cosmetics and beauty products etc and I have changed many of the products I used to buy that go on my skin. I'm wanting to live as healthy as I can and this tool makes it a little easier to pick a better product out of three I think are fantastic. If they all come out with a poor rating, I walk away. Sometimes they give a recommendation if there is one.

The biggest positive is how user friendly this app is. I’ve had very few issues with an item not being scanned.
I really loved the app at first, especially for checking cosmetics. However, I’ve noticed some inconsistencies in the ratings and it makes me wonder just how much I can trust the information this app provides. For example, a bag of Naked granola was rated “excellent” but has 15 g of sugar per serving! There’s also other products rated “excellent,” but contain seed oils or MSG. The sardines I buy from wild planet in extra-virgin olive oil, high in omega’s and protein, but low in sodium were rated “good.” With so many positives, I was expecting them to be excellent…in my opinion, they are and I still eat them regularly. It would be wonderful to scan food and get an accurate reading, but I don’t think it’s possible with this app so I’ve decided to delete it, and go on the knowledge I’ve accumulated by educating myself about additives, unhealthy sugars, and seed oils.

Having used this app for a few months I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that it is misleading and potentially dangerous. A product scan will immediately produce some factual information but it is accompanied by misleading and highly judgemental comments. Comments like ‘Bad’ ‘poor’ are subjective and anecdotal and they provide no empirical basis for such opinionated assertions. Bad for whom and in what context are they poor?

They appear to be obsessed with carbs in general and sugar in particular where almost invariably anything containing them is damned as ‘too caloric’ (by which I think they mean calorific). There are so many variables around calorie consumption that such a comment is perverse and meaningless. For example,I was amazed when the verdict that organic jumbo oats was condemned as too ‘caloric.’ The app has no way of knowing the other food an individual has eaten so they would only be ‘too caloric’ if the daily intake of calories had been exceeded elsewhere. In addition, the comment takes no account of the quantity giving rise to such a value judgement. For example is 5 grams or 200 grams ‘too caloric.’ There is no way of knowing from the app so the comment is meaningless.

In view of this, due to the superficiality of the comments, in my view they are potentially dangerous. If, for example, someone with an eating disorder were to read the unsubstantiated comments about calorific value, it could potentially lead to a conviction that otherwise healthy food is to be avoided. I tried to put myself in the shoes of someone who had eating issues and found that were I to take the app at face value, I would only be eating fruit and vegetables.

This app is immensely useful, allowing me to find out the contents of packaged foods. Yuka reads the bar code on packaging and provides a list of the contents, including additives. It makes clear which additives are harmful to health. I use the Yuka app whenever I go shopping for food, cosmetics, toothpaste.