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Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) Test

Understand whether food cravings and loss of control may reflect addiction-like eating in about 7 minutes. 35 targeted items show how eating affects daily life and whether added support may help.

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Questions: 357 minutes

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October 2, 2025

October 2, 2025
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How the Scales are Structured

example score

6/11

Symptom Count (SC)

This scale counts how many YFAS food-addiction symptoms are present, with higher scores indicating more symptom manifestations.

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Moderate

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0 – 2: Low | 3 – 5: Moderate | 6 – 11: High

A score of 6 falls in the High range, indicating multiple identified symptoms of food-addiction-like eating behavior.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Struggling with cravings

41%OF USERS

People who feel they lose control around certain foods (especially sugary or fatty) and want to understand whether it resembles an addiction pattern.

Binge or stress eaters

34%OF USERS

Those who overeat during stress or emotions and worry about consequences like guilt, health issues, or disruption to daily life.

Clients in therapy

25%OF USERS

People already working with a psychologist, dietitian, or clinician who need a structured way to assess problematic eating behavior.

BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.

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Once you complete the test, your results are compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.

Number of symptoms (Nos)

Average

6.5

Normal range

4.7 — 8.2

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

This questionnaire concerns your eating habits over the past year. People often find it difficult to control the amount they consume of certain types of foods, for example: • Sweets: ice cream, chocolate, donuts, cookies, pastries, candy • Starchy foods: white bread, baked goods, pasta, and rice • Salty snacks: chips, pretzels, and crackers • High-fat foods: steak, bacon, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, pizza, and French fries • Sugary beverages: soda, lemonade, sports drinks, and energy drinks If the questions below refer to “certain foods,” consider any foods or beverages similar to those listed in the groups above, or any other foods with which you have had difficulty over the past year.

- Never
- Less than once a month
- Once a month
- 2–3 times per month
- Once a week
- 2–3 times per week
- 4–6 times per week
- Every day
- Never
- Less than once a month
- Once a month
- 2–3 times a month
- Once a week
- 2–3 times a week
- 4–6 times a week
- Every day
- Never
- Less than once a month
- Once a month
- 2–3 times a month
- Once a week
- 2–3 times a week
- 4–6 times a week
- Every day

These are 3 of the 35 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

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WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

About This Assessment

Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) Test - Symptoms and Signs

addiction

eating behavior

This self-report measure assesses addictive-like eating patterns and related impairment. The Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) is designed to identify symptoms consistent with substance-use-like loss of control over eating and continued use despite adverse consequences.

It includes 35 items and typically takes about 7 minutes to complete. Developed by M. N. Potenza, C. M. Grilo, and A. N. Gearhardt, it is commonly used in clinical and research settings to support characterization of problematic eating, including symptom presence and associated functional impact.

The Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) is intended to complement, not replace, a comprehensive clinical evaluation, and results should be interpreted in the context of the individual’s broader eating behavior, medical status, and psychosocial functioning.

Author: A. N. Gearhardt, C. M. Grilo, M. N. Potenza

Literature: Davis, C. Compulsive overeating as an addictive behavior: overlap between food addiction and binge eating disorder. Current Obesity Reports. 2013.; Gearhardt, A. N., Corbin, W. R., & Brownell, K. D. Development of the Yale food addiction scale version 2.0. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. 2016.; Gearhardt, A. N., Corbin, W. R., & Brownell, K. D. Preliminary validation of the Yale food addiction scale. Appetite. 2009.