I’m standing in my kitchen, phone in one hand, bottle of olive oil in the other. I tip it over slightly, so I can see the barcode, which I scan with my phone. The results appear on my Yuka app quickly ...

Yuka is a popular health app that allows users to scan the barcodes of food items to quickly see a health ranking based on additives, sugar, saturated fat, and fiber. It also scans cosmetic products, ...

Yuka, which Kennedy has called “invaluable,” assigns health scores to food. But can it actually help people make better choices? By Caroline Hopkins Legaspi Cheez-Its used to be one of Marissa ...

Grocery shopping can be a battle. Sometimes it’s tough to balance healthy choices with food that you … actually want to eat. Puzzling through long ingredient lists can be demoralizing. It was that ...

“Global impact” may not have been item number one on Yuka’s to-do list when the app launched in 2017, but it sure is now. And for good reason: the product-scanning app, cofounded in Paris by Julie ...

An independent study has investigated how French smartphone app Yuka, which aims to help consumers choose products good for their health, works on the shop floor. Yuka was launched in 2017 by three co ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - I’ve been eating canned chicken for years. My thinking was simple: unless it’s fried, chicken is healthy. Right? Then I scanned it with an app called Yuka, and suddenly my ...

Big food brands are bellyaching over consumers' use of food scanning apps to vet the healthiness of their products, according to a Sunday article in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Zooming in on one ...

What are consumers most concerned about on-pack? Is Yuka having an impact on reformulation efforts? And what does the future hold for the popular food scanning app? FoodNavigator catches up with ...