The European app Yuka, which Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. health secretary, has called “invaluable,” assigns health scores to food. But can it actually help people make better choices?

The Yuka app offers independent food product ratings, helping users like HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. make healthier choices and prompting brands to improve ingredients.

Yuka allows users to scan the barcodes of food or cosmetics and instantly receive a rating from zero to 100 based on three factors: nutritional value, presence of potentially harmful additives and ...

Yuka was launched in 2017 by three co-founders: brothers Benoit and François Martin, and friend Julie Chapon. Since then, the platform has attracted more than 10m users scanning three million barcodes ...

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.

Yuka is a mobile app. It features an orange carrot icon and lets users scan product bar codes. For food, it generates a score from one to 100 based on nutritional quality, additives and whether it ...

Yuka is the new food app that rates the products in your kitchen – but is it accurate? Or problematic? One writer puts it to the test.

Founded in 2017, Yuka sought to help Europeans make informed food purchasing decisions. For its now 65 million users across 12 countries, the product-scanning app has become much more.