United Kingdom, July 14 -- Yuka CEO Julie Chapon says the app has "never accepted money from brands"

The global app, which was developed in France and launched in 2015, is aimed at helping people shop more healthily, which it does by letting you scan barcodes of one of around six million products in its database, which are they ranked green, yellow or red for good, room for improvement, or bad.

There are around 1,200 new products added every day, and the app includes in depth information for them if you want to explore further.

With 28 million users across the US, six million in France, five million across the UK and another 46 million in nine countries across the rest of the world.

Co-founder and CEO Chapon told the BBC: "We have nev...