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Food-scanning app Yuka expands usage with barcode alerts on products
Yuka says it has 85 million users across 12 countries, including 28 million in the US, and flags items with color-coded ratings based on its database.
BBC Business profiles how consumers use food and product scanning apps to choose items labeled as healthier, highlighting one shopper near Paris who checks barcodes while shopping for her child. The article describes how Yuka scans product barcodes and uses a color system, with green indicating good, red indicating bad, and yellow indicating it could be better, pulling information from a database that includes millions of products and adds about 1,200 new items per day. Yuka started in 2015 and is developed in France, where it still has headquarters, but the piece says co-founder and CEO Julie Chapon moved to the United States three years ago as the app gained traction there. The report also notes that Open Food Facts was launched in 2012 as a free, online crowdsourced product database. According to BBC Business, Yuka has 85 million users in 12 countries, with the largest user base in the United States at 28 million, followed by France at six million and the UK at around five million. The outlet also points to high-profile attention in the US, including comments from Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, who is described as calling the app his favorite.