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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Claudia Cockerell

Addicted to food rating app Yuka? Here's what nutritionists make of it

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 can be arduous and time consuming to decode an ingredients list. But it’s 2025, so naturally there’s an app which can do it in seconds. Since it launched in 2017, Yuka has garnered over 70 million users worldwide and tops the health and fitness charts on the app store.

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