EatSmart Digital Nutrition Scale - Professional Food and Nutrient Calculator
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of EatSmart Digital Nutrition Scale - Professional Food and Nutrient Calculator
Customer Review: Review by my wife Cheryl
Summary: 5 Stars
After a lifetime of eating anything I wanted but remaining a trim 110 pounds, middle-age spread found me. I joined a weight loss program, and the pounds are coming off. But while meticulously measuring my food and counting points, I kept wondering, "What's in here? Am I getting enough nutrients? Is this REALLY a half cup of grapes?" I needed education. I needed a food scale. I researched every scale I could find online and learned that the EatSmart nutrition scale was the best choice.
My order arrived quickly, and every day I confirm that I made the right choice. The EatSmart scale looks great on my counter, where it stands ready to use at all times. The things I rely on most are its ease of use, its accuracy, and the feedback of nutritional information for 12 nutrients. (Wow!) I am gaining a much deeper understanding of the food I eat. Red or yellow, tomatoes are just tomatoes, right? No! With the EatSmart scale, I immediately see the difference in the nutritional values of these two foods. Armed with knowledge, I can make better choices for my weight loss program and for my health. Now I don't have to guess which foods are high in sodium or calcium. I don't have to wonder why my weight loss was slower some weeks, even though I thought I was "being good." Too many calories! Now I know exactly how many calories I am eating. The EatSmart scale is educating me. While I use it for weight loss/health, my family uses the scale for general cooking and baking. The only improvements I would suggest would be to add a backlight and an AC adapter to support the backlight for us power users.
Customer Review: Great nutrition tool!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was told by my doctor to measure and log my food. I bought a big book with the nutritional values for food and began logging what I ate. For each food I had to look it up in the book, estimate the portion size, grab the calculator, and figure how many carbs, fat, etc., was in the food. I found this process very time consuming and felt like giving up.
Then I bought the EatSmart scale. Now I can measure all the foods I eat in a lot less time! My favorite feature is being able to 'build a meal'. Here are the exact steps for building a meal: put your dinner plate on the scale (press tare which returns scale to zero), put baked sockeye salmon on pate (press 583 which is the code for baked sockeye salmon, press M+ for memory, press tare), put boiled string beans on plate (press 200, press M+, press tare), put baked red potato on plate (press 178, press M+, press tare), put salted butter on potato (press 661, press M+), (press MR/MC to see the total nutritional values of the foods on the plate), (Press MC to clear memory and return the scale to normal mode).
That might seem like a lot of key presses, but it pales in comparison to finding each food in a book, guessing how much it weighs or even weighing it on a scale, calculating each food, writing down each food then calculating it yourself.
I do wish the scale had more memory so there would be more codes and thereby a more comprehensive list of foods that are pre-programmed into the scale.
Thanks to the ease of using this scale I will continue to log my foods and hopefully avoid Type II diabetes.
Customer Review: EatSmart ROCKS!
Summary: 5 Stars
All I can say is:"WOW!"
First off,I am a very healthy 59 year old surfer guy living here at the beach in Southern California and purchasing the EatSmart Digital Nutrition Scale is probably the smartest move I have made in a very long time. I surf three to four days a week and work out but at this point in my life I have noticed it's not easy staying in the shape I once was so I needed a perfect answer. I tried everything from reading books to buying software that claimed to help but nothing came close to what I needed...that is until I purchased the EatSmart Digital Scale. Forget about charting your progress with unnecessary booklets and trying to remember what calories are in what. IT'S EASY with the EatSmart Digital Scale! Hey if I can do it so can anyone! With using this little gem of a scale, I now am aware of exactly what goes into my body at each meal and at the end of my day, I am able to have an accurate record of my daily intake which is broken down for me! Fantasitc is all I can say. For those of you who have never attempted to really try to understand nutrition, THIS IS YOUR ANSWER! Don't just think about it....BUY THIS SCALE and stop worrying if you are doing things right! Man if I only had this scale when I was a kid....who knows what shape I would be in today!
Thanks so much EATSMART people for taking the time to develop what I believe is the VERY BEST scale available on the market today!
Thanks for listening!
This scale ROCKS! BUY ONE TODAY!
Signed a very happy new customer.
Ken W.
Customer Review: Great for calorie counting
Summary: 5 Stars
I really bought this form my daughter. We both have been cutting back. But hard to determine total calories on some things, ounce this grams that.
This makes it so much easier.
I was looking at a cheaper one first, that is just a scale. But I thought I am going to be running back and forth to google converting grams, ounces and scratching out the conversions and total calories.
So I went ahead and bought this one, it does cost a pretty penny but it is worth it.
Just put in the calories on the package and the serving size then put the item on the scale and it gives you the total calories for that item.
It has things preprogrammed for fruits and veggies that do not have a label and you can always go to google and get the amount.
We also make a batch of cookies and for every item we would zero out the scale, then put the next item in and get the calorie count. We got it down to where we knew how much calories were in any one of the homemade cookies.
If you want to lose weight you need two things. #1 Count your calories and reduce enough to lose weight, stick to it. #2 Exercises, walk and do some weight training, something at least for 30-40 min for 4-5 days a week at least.
If you don't do both forget it and don't even try.
But if you want to really lose weight and are really willing to #1 Count your calories & #2 Exercises for 30-40 min for 4-5 days a week at least.
Then buy this product, it will really help, if not just keep on dreaming.
Customer Review: Handy mainstay on your counter to control your food portions
Summary: 5 Stars
Needing to get serious with my diet, I read a food scale is essential as food portions can be deceiving. After checking out the Salton and other brands' reviews, I settled on the EatSmart Nutrition Scale as it has a lot of features for the price and looked compact enough to have it on my kitchen counter. The best part with this scale is the ability to do calculations as you add items to your plate, by zeroing out the weight after each item. I figured out the calories of my taco salad easily by adding each ingredient to my bowl and using the built in codes or the nutritional calculations. I didn't have to use a measuring cup or spoon at all, which is the biggest pain in figuring out a serving. Measurements can be done in either grams or ounces. After a couple days, my husband figured he would give it a try and it was a big eye opener to him to figure out what one serving actually is, and how many calories he was consuming. It takes some time to play with it and figure out the various features. As one other reviewer said, it can take some time to track a lot of different nutrients because you have to press multiple keys to display more information. This is primarily because of the compact size and smaller display. It does a lot for its size and I'm very pleased I picked this scale. The only thing I'd suggest to improve this product is to make the LCD display better. It's a bit hard to read in certain lighting. But, it's still well worth a 5 star rating!