Most of the time we are guided by advertising when buying food or cosmetics, assuming that at go out on tv They must be the best of the best. However, in many cases the reality is very different, since appearing in an ad is not synonymous with quality. And I'm not saying it, the Yuka application says it.
Yuka is a simple application for mobile devices, available on both iOS and Android, and that allows us to scan the barcode to know the quality of the product: Excellent, good, mediocre and bad. If you want to know how Yuka works and what it offers us, I invite you to continue reading to see the analysis we have carried out.
If you use the application it is more than likely that you get more than one surprise with food and cosmetics that you consume on a daily basis. It is more than likely that the surprise comes from that product that costs very little money compared to the one offered by the best-known brands, since it gets the highest score.
First of all, as soon as we install the application, we have two options to use it: register in the application or use our Facebook account. Next, it will ask us for permission to access the camera, something essential since otherwise we will not be able to scan the barcodes of the products we want to analyze.
Knowing the quality of the products
As soon as you run the application, the camera will be activated. From that moment on, we must bring the barcode closer to the camera of our device to show us the corresponding score. This score shows us both the positive and negative aspects, and whose values in ml are those that allow us to offer a bad, mediocre, good or excellent score.
If the score is not good, just below the composition of the products, we find alternatives that have been valued as excellent. Every time we analyze a product, it remains registered in the application and we can consult it whenever we want.
In addition, it also offers us the Alternatives function, where all the products that we have analyzed are displayed, along with their score and the best alternatives available in the market. The only information that it offers us in this comparison is the price of the same, since sometimes it can be too high.
How Yuka Evaluates Products
Many of you will surely be thinking about the basis of the score that this application offers us. From the application itself they state that the analysis they perform is completely independent and is always based on the ingredients / components of each one, analyzing the potential impact of the products on health, but not their effectiveness.
This last aspect is important when we apply it to cosmetics, since many of them may be rated as bad, despite the fact that its price it's nothing bad.
Yuka bases the valuation of each ingredient on current research, giving each of them a level of risk, showing 4 levels of valuation:
- High risk (bad feedback) - red color
- Medium risk (mediocre rating) - orange color
- Limited risko (good rating) - yellow color
- Risk free (excellent rating) - green color
Every time we analyze a product, it will show the level of risk along with the corresponding color, so that we can quickly get an idea of how good or bad the product is for our health. To analyze the risk level of each product, the effect of the active ingredient on health is taken into account, given:
- Endocrine disruptor
- Allergen
- Irritating
- Carcinogen
In the result of the analysis that shows us the application of each product that we analyze, the fonts used to give the score are displayed. After knowing how the application works, it is clear that we can trust a lot of the results it offers us.
How is my diet according to Yuka
Another interesting function that this application offers us is the possibility of check the quality of the products we buy and we analyze through the application. Through the My diet option, we can see a summary of the number of excellent, good, mediocre and bad products that we consume.
It also offers us a summary of what the quality of cosmetics that we use on a day-to-day basis. Most likely, in both cases, the red section of the graph will predominate over the others.
What kind of products do you offer us information about?
At the moment, Yuka only provides us with information about packaged foods and cosmetics. Yuka does not analyze alcoholic beverages, cleaning products, electronic devices or any other product that is not packaged food and cosmetics (creams, toners, wipes ...).
How much does Yuka cost
Yuka is available for your download completely free, does not include any type of advertisements and offers us information on more than 800.000 references.
If we want to support and become partners of the application, we can pay 14,99 euros per year, a membership fee that allows us to use the application without an internet connection, unlimited history of scanned items and the ability to search for any product without having to scan it.
