Want to know exactly how healthy your dinner is? Even if not, Yuka is here for you. It’s an app that scans the barcodes of almost all the products in our cupboards to give them a health rating out of 100. With its handy traffic-light rankings and suggestions for healthier alternatives, it’s likely that — like me and the rest of my east London mums’ WhatsApp group — you’ll be hooked quickly.
It can get out of hand. My use of the app reached a nadir almost immediately, when at 1am I decided to scan the contents of my bathroom cabinet. The chemical laden results were enough to keep me up all night about what went into my children’s bathtime routine.
