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It is boom for Yuka and the other apps that reveal the quality of the products - Lifestyle

2021-12-23T14:19:19.359Z


(HANDLE) Just frame with your mobile phone the bar code of cosmetics and packaged foods that the application promotes or rejects with a green, yellow or red traffic light the content in relation to the quality declined on our health. And ' Yuka app that scans food and cosmeticsto decipher and analyze their components in detail, but even if the best known of the moment is not the only one, there are also ot


Just frame with your mobile phone the bar code of cosmetics and packaged foods that the application promotes or rejects with a green, yellow or red traffic light the content in relation to the quality declined on our health.

And '

Yuka app that scans food and cosmetics

to decipher and analyze their components in detail, but even if the best known of the moment is not the only one, there are also others, more and more from month to month. Used in 11 countries around the world by over 20 million people, it has been downloaded over 10 million times by us and by all generations: it is mistaken by teenagers who perplexedly frame their favorite snacks, realizing in a few seconds what they are to eat, the 'beauty addicted' ladies use it in bursts who frame lipsticks, creams and serums paid for in gold, comparing them with those of the mass markets (and sometimes they discover that the former are worse than the latter), they rely on new parents while choosing baby food and baby food for their babies.


The system judges in a simple and immediate way if that given product, perhaps branded and advertised, is excellent, good, mediocre or poor, taking into account the nutritional quality (sugar, salt, calories, fiber, fat content, represents 60% of the evaluation), the presence of additives (it counts for 30% in the evaluation) and the bio profile ('worth' 10%) for foods, or chemicals, harmless or potentially harmful (for cosmetics).


The use is rampant despite the criticisms raised by the then minister Teresa Bellanova who last year branded it as' 'simplistic and wrong' because the application is French and evaluates the quality according to the 'Nutriscore' traffic light labeling method while in Italy the 'Nutriform Battery' is used which lists the nutritional composition in a more precise and detailed way. Perhaps the real problem lies here, our labels are difficult to understand or are printed in microscopic characters, therefore illegible. And while we are discussing to find a system common to all countries, the App of the moment instantly bowls clear information. The French computer scientists who invented it also guarantee that the system is credible because it is independent, without any advertising,it is based on a worldwide database that grows day by day and, above all, it does not receive any funding from brands but only from users (for the premium version).


The application of the moment follows the new trend that sees the Apps of our phones increasingly at the center of shopping and our life, perhaps helping us. On the food front, besides Yuka, there is the analogous

Edo

. For some years there have been those that reveal the brand and price of clothes and shoes that we may see worn by someone crossing the street in front of us or that we notice in magazines or on social networks (if those clothes or shoes are sold online). Like

ASAP54

which has been called 'the Shazam of fashion' or

Snap Fashion

. Then there are the Apps that help you choose the best outfit such as

My Dressing or ClosetSpace

or StyleBook.


Also on the cosmetics front, the use of applications that support choices is

growing

: ranging from

INCIBeauty

(one million downloads) to

Greenity-Bio Inci cosmetics

(over one hundred thousand downloads), or

Biotiful

which translates INCI into simple terms (list ingredients) and compare prices and reviews.


Just like Shazam who guesses the songs in a few seconds, the new Apps put the consumer at the center by solving doubts and difficulties instantly.

Source: ansa

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