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: Overall, nice device, cheaply constructed
Summary: 3 Stars
Most of the reviews for this item are spot on. This is a well-designed scale that seems to work fine. About the only improvement I'd make would be the ability to calculate multiple nutrients simultaneously for packaged foods, and the ability to add those to the summed nutrients when combining ingredients from the database. I absolutely love the way I can add a bunch of whole food ingredients together and keep a running total of what's going into a recipe to reference at the end. Unfortunately, if your recipe calls for a can of this or some pre-packaged that, you are stuck tediously using the calculate mode to ascertain each individual nutrient value, writing them down, and adding this manually at the end. This is really too bad, as the scale is otherwise quite handy, full-featured, and efficient to use.
When I received this scale, the only real disappointment was that it wobbles slightly. Now I am sure that this is not a good thing for a precision scale, so I ordered a second one and initiated the return process for the first. Unfortunately, the replacement also wobbles. In the interim, I shimmed up one of the back supports to fix the wobble so I'd be able to better evaluate the scale. Since I like most everything else about it, I went ahead and kept the replacement, but it seems to me that since this is on the pricey side of devices in this category, it should be constructed a little better.
Customer Review: Purchasing the EatSmart Digital Nutrition Scale was a smart move!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've used an inexpensive food scale in the past to weigh foods and figure out basic calories for the purpose of weight loss. That was an eye-opening experience at the time. Recently diagnosed as a Type 2 diabetic, I found the inexpensive scale just wasn't going to work any more. Weight loss is still a goal, but now figuring out actual carbohydrate grams is a must. I turned to Amazon.com to look for a better way and found the EatSmart Digital Nutrition Scale. Now I can weigh my portion sizes for any food and find out not only calories but also carbohydrate and fat grams as well as additional nutritional information. I find the scale very easy to use. Place your food item on the scale, type in the 3-digit code for that food, and there you have everything you need to know. Making combination foods, like casseroles, etc.? Weigh ingredients and write down the information needed, add up all the numbers, and divide the total calories of the food by the typical serving you eat. It takes a bit of time to start, but if you record this information in a notebok, you have it ready for the next time. I also like being able to weigh my packaged foods, input the data from the nutritional label, and figure out exactly how much I'm eating without having to "guesstimate." The scale is sleek and compact and does everything I personally could ask of it. I love my EatSmart Digital Nutrition Scale!Customer Review: Finally found one....
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been looking for a nutritional scale for months...one that would provide me with carbohydrates and yet not be a complicated piece of technology! (I want to eat my meal when it's ready...not hours later)
This scale has been the answer. I have type 1 diabetes and have lived with it for over 40 years. I have minimal complications and want to keep it that way. I manage my diabetes using an insulin pump which is tremendous, but because I'm working very hard to eat regular food -- less pre-packaged foods -- I needed a means to figure out the carbohydrates of everyday foods we don't get out of a box...fresh foods, and especialy unusual portion sizes since that is how I calculate the amount of insulin I take before meals.
A good example of how simple this is to use is just this: According to many carbohydrate books, an orange is 21-24 grams of carbohydrates. When you calculate insulin dosage by estimating, it can be a real problem if the amount is off creating either a over bolus of insulin or not getting enough to cover those carbs. I put the orange on the scale...hit the code from the book and it gave me exactly how many carbs were in it...20.5. It's wonderful!
Easy to clean, attractive and doesn't take up much of a footprint on the counter. I'm VERY pleased!
Customer Review: Great scale
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased this scale as a complement to my newfound "love" of working out. I have to admit, I do not use it as much I should. I was very eager to use it on everything I ate and drank but doing so is quite time consuming. While it is pretty straightforward with foods that are included in the booklet (such as milk - find the code, place the product on the scale, and voila), it is not as quick with foods that have a label on the box (such as cereal). In that case, you have to input data per serving yourself to get the scale tell you how much of what you are about to consume (calculator and any kind of scale would do the trick just as well). It would be awesome if this scale had a scanner that scanned the barcodes and knew what product I was just playing with. Also, it would be nice to have my daily results either printed out or downloaded to my computer. Putting all data into Excel spreadsheet daily just adds to the time spent using this scale. With all that said, however, I think this scale is the best nutritional scale you can get at this time. Proper diet is a huge part of one's health and well-being and time spent on it should not be looked at as time wasted. After all, after a couple of days you will get such a hang of it, you will not need the scale for every meal until you drastically change your diet.Customer Review: Impressive Scale, Great Company.
Summary: 5 Stars
This scale has a lot of feature pumped into a simple to understand interface. I love it.
Our daughter was diagnosed with diabetes earlier this year, so we need to closely monitor her carb intake. When we started, we used measuring cups and a cheap scale. Not fun at all when you have a 2 year old screaming for their breakfast and needing to do math in your head to get the number right. So we had heard about electronic scales that had nutritional information right in the device and found this one. Once we got it we fell in love with it. We just enter the food code or enter the Info from the back of the Cheerios box and start to pour. It's that simple. The best part I have found for my situation is doing food subtraction. When my 2 year old starts to throw the food on the floor, I just pick it up and weigh it to know what amount of Carbs she did not eat, which would need to be replaced.
The company is also very helpful, the scale we had bought initially broke, and displayed ERROR whenever we started it up. We called them and discussed the issue; they sent a new one the next day to us. They were great to work with. We ended up finding it so useful; we bought one for both sets of grandparents so when we are over there we can manage the meals with the same ease.