Yuka Reviews 209

Great app, lets you have a better understanding of whats going into your body. Theres some negative comments to say that you'll get eating disorders/ fear mongerning. Wake up people. Processed food is poison

I thought it was a great app until l started scanning seemingly healthy food ie: raw almonds, now saying they are bad for you. A lot of 5 star ratings on food are coming up as poor, l dont get it.

Secondo me se i prodotti sono di marca li riconosce eccellenti altrimenti mediocri dice ok alla soia o dove non c'è lattosio. Sinceramente non mi convince.

I thought this app looked really great and I have spent ages over the past couple of days, chucking out bad stuff and researching replacements but I had an uneasy feeling that items were appearing with conflicting reviews i.e. bad and good. My suspicion was confirmed when I looked up Rimmel Kind and Free concelaer. It is given a rating of 46/100 (poor). A recommended replacement is, what appears to be, the same item but this time it has a rating of 90/100 (excellent). I can therefore no longer trust this app.

Loads of my friends started talking about how great the YUKA app was so I downloaded and started scanning. I started to notice a few patterns.

When I scanned my rice cakes that say they’re 35 kcal each and the Yuka app stated they were 150, I started to look more closely and have started noticing lots of inconsistencies. When I researched a bit more how they determine info I came here and found lots of negative reviews. My conclusion is that scientific articles, reviews and medical journals (ie: doing more research) is definitely a better and safer method. I have now deleted Yuka.

I hope others take a minute to use their critical thinking skills to see that this app is actually really unhelpful and inaccurate.

Depuis plusieurs années, j'utilise les applications de Yuka et je scanne les produits à chaque achat. Je vérifie surtout les additifs. La dernière fonctionnalité est vraiment très bien et permet de reconnaître les articles les mieux notés dans chaque catégorie. Personnellement je trouve cela très utile.

I really like this app but I don’t like the way they advertise toothpaste that contains fluoride to be excellent, So it could be abit bias and not 100% Truthful, As Floride is one of the most dangerous neurotoxins there is its almost on par with arsenic, It was used for years to kill rodents and it is still used as a pesticide.

Dangerous and highly toxic app. My teenage daughter has developed a full blown eating disorder because of apps like these. Found it on her phone and deleted it. Absolutely disgusting. No food is a "bad" food. What app has the right to tell you a certain food is bad?!

Seems a good idea, but a huge but. No reference to portion size. Everything is per 100g or 100ml., surely it should also show how much per typical portion which is much more relevent.
Also would be good to have allergies show up.

Ho seri dubbi sulle valutazioni di questa app. Ho potuto verificare su di me che prodotti considerati buoni o addirittura eccellenti mi creavano allergie sulla pelle mentre altri (vedi prodotti della Ceramol valutati scarsi) in realtà sono ottimi e mi hanno fatto sparire tutti i fastidi creati dagli altri prodotti consigliati . Di certo la cancello e non la userò più

Awesome app everybody should wake up

vorab: ich benutze Yuka hauptsächlich zur Bewertung kosmetische Produkte.
Seit Jahren habe ich Probleme mit trockener und leicht reizbarer Haut.
Ich begann dann, meine ganze Kosmetik mit Yuka zu überprüfen und umzustellen.

Yuka gibt eine schnelle Übersicht in Form von Punkten und zeigt in einer weiteren Detailebene Einschätzungen zu Inhaltsstoffen und geht hinunter bis zur Einbindung von EU-Vorgaben oder wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse.
D.h. ich kann hier ganz gezielt Inhaltsstoffe erkennen, auf die ich problematisch reagiere

selbst wenn ein Produkt in der Datenbank fehlt, kann ich dieses schnell hinzufügen und erhalte in wenigen Minuten das Ergebnis

seit mittlerweile einem Jahr nutze ich nur noch Produkte mit einem Yuka Score über 75 Punkten und viele meine Probleme haben sich erledigt
Yuka bietet dem Verbraucher eine Transparenz in einer Form, die er sonst nie bekommen würde. Ich kann somit selber jedes Markenprodukt und ein noname Produkt vergleichen. schon oft hatte ich aha Momente, die mich sehr zum Staunen nachdenken brachten.

Ich zahle gerne freiwillig mein Premium Account, weil ich finde, dass dies eine der besten Möglichkeiten für mündige Verbraucher ist

Ma allora a chi devo credere?????io mi affidavo a yuka per migliorare l acquisto di prodotti alimentari adesso ho dei seri dubbi.....

Products like Tortilla chips and cream crackers are high in trans fats, which aren't covered despite being the worst fat. These products are rated good to excellent???

The idea is great but a lot of information has been incorrect such as product stating ‘no additives’ but when double checking there is common additives that Yuka state as bad additives in other products .
Also had several items that have said excellent but are on the app twice and contradict each other

Sono nel settore cosmesi, quindi un'addetta ai lavori, come si usa dire. Ho utilizzato la App in relazione a due prodotti branded per bambini con degli INCI a dir poco spaventosi e Yuka li ha definiti eccellenti. la trovo una App pericolosa, perché gli ingenui e creduloni pullulano. Non mi stupisco quindi che tanti utilizzino Yuka e che credano al fatto che non sia sponsorizzata dai produttori perché purtroppo la mamma dei cretini é sempre in cinta, ma mi stupisce che l'autorità competente non sia ancora intervenuta nel controllo di questa bufala pazzesca. Per saper valutare un prodotto é necessaria una preparazione specifica che da modo anche di contestualizzare gli ingredienti

Great app to help people identify ingredients and the poison/toxic in the food industry.

I sent an email to YUKA:

"I spotted a few mistakes in the app that need changing rapidly. I saw a "healthy" product that had SEED OILS which is very very unhealthy and worser than sugar and I'd like to suggest please outline these ingredients correctly as this app is supposed to be showing unhealthy/toxic ingredients another thing is maltodextrin and dextrose which are the HIGHEST on the Gi and GL index and another is "natural flavorings" I request you to please correct these"

Their reply was:

"One of the main issues linked to consuming certain seed oils is their saturated fat content, which can sometimes be high. Yuka does take the amount of saturated fats into account in its product analyses: the higher the amount of saturated fats is in a product, the lower its grade will be.
Regarding Omega-6, which are part of the unsaturated fats group, you should certainly limit your consumption of these. The balance of our Omega-3 and Omega-6 intake is what will have the biggest effect on this: we should consume at most 5 times more Omega-6 than Omega-3.As for maltodextrines and dextrose, at this time, the information we have on file does not indicate any risks associated to it. The only ingredient we mark as risky (yellow) is polidextrose (E1200).

Finally, At this time, only "Artificial Flavors" are penalized in the app, as "Natural Flavors" under EU regulations must be derived from natural products and/or ingredients from natural sources.
However, we're currently reviewing the rating for Natural Flavors for the US market, assessing the legislation and scientific studies published on the health impact of this ingredient"

My reply was:

"I understand what you're saying but we need to intact up our omega 3 instead of 6. The best ratio is 1:1, having too much omega 6 can cause inflammation in the body among other health issues so when paired with omega 3 they balance each other out. Having a little too much of omega 3 is ok but having too much of anything isn't good whether it's healthy or not.

Regarding natural flavours, the company can put 100s of unknown ingredients in the food and just name it as natural flavours. For example, I have come across many foods/treats that shows in the ingredients list the natural flavours come from said fruit or something natural that's actually naturally derived and found in nature, not synthetic or artificial. If they can't state what it has come from there's something dodgy going on.

Regarding Maltodextrin and Dextrose, these themselves are worse than sugar. People with diabetes think they are eating sugar free foods/treats but they don't the the truth about Maltodextrin and Dextrose that is in that said food or treat, it will raise their blood sugars to the max and it certainly did for me. Just a very small amount of Maltodextrin sent my blood sugar to the roof whereas the same amount of sugar hardly had any effect. In my honest opinion the best sweeteners are stevia, xylitol, erythritol, monk fruit, chicory root fibre, inulin, allulose among many other naturally derived sweeteners and these are the one I personally use whose diabetic so it's a win win because there's no damage to oral health, gut microbiome, blood sugars/insulin and all the bad things that come from eating sugar/carbohydrates.

I am very much aware of the sneaky tactics the food industry use/add and I also have personal experience working there and just doing my own research. Another example I would like to add is cereals, the companies tout it as having your "daily vitamins and minerals" etc etc but unfortunately people don't know that food is FORTIFIED with synthetic vitamins and minerals... It literally says it on the box but people still won't know about it. Why can't we just eat something more healthier and natural for breakfast? Just have eggs that's more than enough nutrients to keep you going, but unfortunately people nowadays can't be bothered cooking or making breakfast which is as simple as 5-20 minutes. I sincerely hope you take my request into consideration and if you could also please cater this app for people who are following keto, paleo, carnivore diet and for the health conscious people as I think this will really work for everyone and will reach a wider audience and make the app grow. It is a very good app don't get me wrong, but just some information is critically incorrect"

The team themselves don't know a lot about how the food industry works so they really need to fix these ratings as it is false..

Thank you

Ho installato Yuka sullo Smarth. ma, scondo me non é attendibbile, l'app infatti esamina la composizione dei prodotti ed elabora un colore che va dal ross (scarso) al verde (eccellente). Si basa sul cosiddetto "semaforo";
il risultato é fuorviante: es. insaccato italiano IGP(dove c'é sale per la conservazione) é considerato peggiore,di molto, rispetto ad una merendina confezionata piena di coloranti e conservanti.
Non tiene in nessun conto le quantità

Ho ricevuto finalmente la rettifica di Yuka sul prodotto che classificavano come scarso quando non lo era.
Il prodotto è stato rivisto e ora risulta “eccellente”.
Trattasi di un correttore della Avril.
Ringrazio Yuka per la rettifica e ringrazio Trustpilot, un sito che ci consente di potere mettere in rilievo le cose che non risultano chiare.
Marzia

Attention, l'application vous abonne sans votre autorisation Surveillez bien vos comptes en banque un jour vous avez la désagréable surprise de constater qu'ils font un prélèvement pour un abonnement d'une année sans aucun consentement de votre part. La question se pose pour savoir comment ils ont pu avoir vos coordonnées bancaires.