They say that ‘we are what we eat’ and that is why we must worry about all the food that we put in our mouths on a daily basis. To be able to make a record of the nutritional composition of everything we eat we can read the table that must accompany the product, but we can also use an application to perform this task.
Yuka will explain why you shouldn’t eat some foods
The application that allows us to perform this query function is Yuka that is extremely simple to use, although there are many others in the App Store. This app will use the camera of our iPhone to scan the barcodes that have the products to be able to throw information about their nutritional composition. This can be done both in the supermarket itself and when we are at home looking for something to eat.
When opening the application we find a small explanation of the functions that Yuka has and the possibility of registering through email or with Facebook. After this, the camera will open to start capturing barcodes as if it were a traditional code scanner. At the time of scanning the product a window will emerge where we will be informed of all the nutritional components and the presence of each one. Among these values we find saturated fats, proteins, sugar, proteins and the total energy value in kCal.
In addition it will also classify them as ‘excellent’, ‘good’, ‘mediocre’ and ‘bad’ for our health depending on their composition. And within these categories there is also a numerical numbering from 0 to 100 to know how good or bad is the product in question.
But … what happens when an element is categorized as ‘bad’? The application will recommend in this case other foods that are similar but that are much healthier for us. In this way we can include it in our shopping list or check the nutritional information of this new product to be fully informed. All this information is recorded in a history within the application found in the options below.
For us this is a very interesting application to be able to have adequate food. It is true that we miss something that is integrated with a virtual shopping list so that it is nutritionally adequate.
