Yuka: the food scan app that doesn't like oat milk

WANT to know exactly how healthy your dinner is? Even if not, Yuka is here for you.

- Emily Phillips

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.