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 ...

Anyone who is remotely health conscious will know the feeling of standing in a supermarket aisle, scrutinising the nutritional label of a potential snack, or googling “is xanthan gum bad for you?” It ...

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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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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Julie Chapon was 26 when she finally learned what was in her Nestlé Fitness cereal. “I’d eaten this cereal for 10 years,” by 2016 said Chapon, and she considered it to be healthy. “When I checked the ...

The Yuka scanning app founded to help consumers better understand the health benefits of food and personal care products is campaigning for a ban on aspartame Yuka is calling time on sweetener ...