Although Yuka cannot guarantee the absolute reliability of the data for products listed in its database, we make our best efforts to provide the most reliable data possible, particularly with :
1) Controls when adding a product
The data provided by users is first secured by an automatic control system within the application, including via image and text recognition.
When the photo of the label taken by the user contains more than 20% of text not recognized as ingredients, the ingredient list is manually transcribed by an external service to minimize errors. In the meantime, the product is not rated.
Lists of ingredients are also transcribed by an external service in order to avoid errors.
2) Double verification following products' registration
- Verification by the Yuka team: a dedicated team manages the database, verifying the contributions and correcting them if necessary. To achieve this, we rely on algorithms that identify products where the entered data may potentially be inconsistent with expected values.
- Verification by other users: Yuka users can directly modify incorrect datas in the application. Both users and brands can also contact the team for correction. Errors that are reported to us are corrected within the best delays.
⚠️ However, some product pages cannot be edited by users. They include those that have been verified by the team or whose datas has been received directly from brands (this information corresponds to what's on the product labels, so there's no conflict of interest).
Finally, if users voluntarily enter incorrect information, they are immediately banned and can no longer use the application on their phone. Fortunately this is very rare!
