Yuca: Food Label Scanner

"Ultra-processed" is not printed on any packet. It is a conclusion you have to draw from the ingredient list. Yuca is an ingredient checker that draws it for you in about a second — from a barcode, a photo of the label, or a whole till receipt. Scan a barcode and you get the NOVA group, a processing intensity out of 100, and the exact ingredients behind both — each one named, located in the list, and explained in a sentence. Scan a receipt and the same verdict covers everything you just bought. WHY A NUMBER AND NOT JUST A LABEL Nearly every packaged product on the shelf is NOVA group 4. Being told that again is not useful when you are standing in an aisle holding two boxes. Yuca scores how industrial a recipe actually is, so you can tell those two boxes apart. How is it different from other food scanners? Most tell you whether a product is ultra-processed. Yuca scores how far in it is,…