Digital Nutrition Scale (Silver)

When I originally started using this scale, it was almost 6 years ago and it was the scale my step father had in our house. now years later when I was shopping for one for my own home, I went ended going back to the same scale. This scale is great in that it shows all the nutritional information on the screen as well as the weight in grams and ounces. It is easy to use - you get a book with the codes - punch in the code and go. and it is fairly accurate. The size of scale is a great size. Fits anywhere in the kitchen. I keep mine on the counter next to my coffee pot and it is rarely in the way. It is light if you need to move it, and the platform where you put the food you are measuring is a great size. If needed, you can always put the food in small lightweight bowl or container, tare it, and then weight your food to prevent a lot of cleaning up. I would compare the read out of nutritional information to me FitBit App and they were almost matching. It is great for the price. Highly recommend to anyone trying to lose weight, maintain weight, or just trying to be a bit more healthier.

I go along with most of the cheering that is shown for the Kitrics Scale. Bravo. Here are the key points for me and three suggestions: 1) The unit is very well built and easy to clean. 2) The readings are accurate and the logic behind the daily tally is right on: I can find with my research no other scale that integrates daily nutritional values for such a wide range of foods. 3) The tare functionality is especially good and allows meals with four or five ingredients to be added (with tares in between portions). The accuracy of each new weighing is correct even though the total weight might be 500 grams. 4) My scale went "belly up" after three months. The supplier of Kitrics had a new scale to me in five days with need to return the dead one. Suggestions: 1) You do not need to count every celery stock to get an accurate tally. Do the same thing that the IRS allows you to do with a "standard deduction". All of the vegetables and incidental calories are rolled up in a single adjustment of 250 calories with the scale is zeroed. This is by weighing a standard weight which is calibrated to return the calories, carbs, protein of 250 calories. Saves a lot of time each day. 2) It helps to create (via Excel or other) a chart for myself that I post near the scale with most used food codes.. 3) The beeping may be a bother to some: still the buttons are all modern and silent, so the beep does let you know when an entry has been made

(An UPDATE at the END of the review) I've had this scale for 4 months and I have lost 35lbs. I was really clueless about portion size until I got this scale. In the beginning, I used it all the time, keeping a cumulative daily total. Since I was trying to keep at 60%-20%-20% balance of carbs, fat, protein it was invaluable because I could see what I needed to get to the end of the day and stay within my diet. Believe it or not, that often meant at the end of the day I had leeway to have a (small) treat, which has kept me sane. Now that I've had it for a while, I don't run daily totals, but I still use it all the time for accurate portion sizes. The manual gives instructions clearly and it is short -- but do be prepared to spend about 10 to 15 minutes learning to use the scale. Once you get it, it is easy. I've entered in about 25 entries for food items that are not programmed in already. Entering them is easy. The code book is plastic so it won't get ruined by water. The scale is excellent for weighing mail, too. The auto-shut off will save batteries and still gives you plenty of time to dig around in the fridge and chop something up. Here are the reasons I did not give it 5 stars: The display could use more contrast as it is a bit dim. Every time you push a button, there is a loud beep noise. It can't be turned off. The book with the list of food codes is not in any sensible order and it has too many codes most adults don't need, like candy bars and processed foods. A condiment section would have been helpful instead of having to find mayo in one place, mustard in another, and I have yet to find ketchup. I would totally overlook most of the above to give this product 5 stars, except for that infernal beeping. I could not have had the success I've had without this scale! I never pay expedited shipping for anything, but I did for this and I am glad! ~<UPDATE, March 2011:>~ Hey, thanks for the interesting feedback on my review. You all raise good points, both supporting my commentary and differing with it. I had not considered how this scale would be used by diabetics and diabetic children. That makes perfect sense and I am glad you made us aware of that. I was thinking mainly of nutritional info already being on the wrappers, as well as the sheer volume of processed/packaged foods pre-programmed versus numerous missing items in vegetables, fruit, and fish. It sounds like they have reorganized the booklet and I hope that any commentary here helps them make good decisions about what to include. With the ability to program in your own items, the holes are an inconvenience but not something that should keep anyone from buying the scale. If you eat lots of pre-packaged foods, it won't be an inconvenience at all! Long-term scale performance: completely awesome! Have not had to replace the batteries and I use it on average once daily. AND, I've lost 50 lbs and kept 40 lbs off and am now in the process of getting my total loss down again, to 57 lbs. I'm a third of the way there and doing great, for the win. I don't keep running totals on the scale anymore, but I use it in combination with nutritional information from the web to weigh out the calories to my liking without having to program in the items. Oh! Am I allowed to plug the blog, 100 Calories Of, which I started based on my use of the scale? It is [..] and it shows pictures of 100 calories of different foods I've weighed on the scale. It all started when I posted a picture of 9.5 cashews to facebook and captioned "100 Calories of Cashews." People went nuts (ha ha) for the info so I kept going. I take requests! Wishing you all a great day and good health.

Looks great, works great, the most important - helps tremendously in keeping healthy eating habits. I decided to get reed of the execess weight and lower my BP. In one and a half month my weigh is 15 lb less and BP is back to normal. Use of Kitrics DNS was very instrumental (no pun intended)in this process. -I totally agree with all the positive comments in other reviews, plus couple of notes about the Nutritional Scale on my own: I've read most of the comments posted on Amazon before buying this product. -Most of the negative comments are outdated. -This model DOES NOT have following negatives: dim display - NOW it's clear and numbers are relatively large; bucklet is not laminated - NOW it's laminated and has a good quality; foods listed randomly - NOW it's in food groops and listed alphabetically. -Additionaly, scale is very small and light - fits perfectly anywhere in the kitchen. I bought this for $25 in the Gold Box deal (free shipping)- I think it's an awesome buy. Very happy with this product.

This item shipped so fast. Thanks! Now about the product, so far, I love it. It is so accurate I can't believe I've been using my old crappy analog scale. I discovered that measuring cups are a little bit off. I've been using a plastic measuring cup to measure spaghetti sauce and I never went over the rim but I filled it to its level (when dieting every speckle of sauce counts, ha) and learned that it was MORE than a cup. In order to get a "real" cup of spaghetti sauce I would have to fill 1/4 inch below the cups rim. It may not sound like much but over 7 days that could equal to a easy couple hundred extra calories that you could have saved or used on a healthy snack. I'm also glad I have something to measure my feta cheese for my salads. Because I bought Athenos feta cheese crumbles and followed the 1/4 cup serving to a T of what the packaging displayed. I can't remember how many servings the package said it served but I do know at the time (when I had package on hand) I was either shortened in the amount of servings the package promised or my 1/4 measuring cup was wrong. Either way, with this new addition to my kitchen I will have NO MORE second guessing of how many calories were in my dinner or having to use a rule to measure how big of a chunk of pepperoni is one serving, ha! My husband shook his head when I asked him for his measuring tape to measure a stick of pepperoni (I do low carb). I also love the "Tare" system. When I ordered this scale I didn't fully read all of the reviews so I ordered without knowing if it Tared the weight of the container your food is in AND IT DOES!! Luckily I had an afternoon free and got so giddy about my new "toy" that I prepackaged 3 nights worth of dinners already. Good news is...I now have some spare time those three days to read a nice book or another hobby instead of obsessing over "did I add the calories right?" I'm very pleased in this food scale. Since this is my first day using it I will update if I discover any qwerks OR more positive aspects.

This is a novel scale and is also very useful for diet and nutrition, but improvements are needed. The scale is most useful with meat, fruits, and vegetables. It has less practicality for packaged food because nearly all packaged foods have nutrition information on them, so you only need to weigh them to calculate what you are eating, and its internal database is dated (it contains foods that aren't available in stores now, and does not contain many of the popular "healthy" foods such as the plethora of Kashi products now on the market). However, there are 99 user-defined presets where these food values can be entered, as long as you keep track of the secret codes. The product description is misleading in that it promotes a removable tray (to ease cleaning), however the model I received has the fixed tray (the older model they must have been clearing out). I agree with other reviewers in a few areas: the display is hard to read, the display is blocked by a modest-sized bowl or plate, and the booklet of food codes is not in a very intuitive order. I contacted the seller (Woot) inquiring about the removable tray the product was advertised to have, and if there was an electronic database with the foods codes in it (useful for keeping track of nutrition on a computer, or if I lose the code book). Their response was that I need to contact the manufacturer (who I can't figure out how to contact). In any event, it appears they don't care about the products they sell. Unlike most electronic scales this one uses 2 "AA" batteries, not the much more expensive 9-volt battery, so it'll be a lot cheaper to operate. All things considered, I am happy with this scale especially because I bought it at gold-box pricing. Had I paid full price, I'd be a lot more disappointed.

My wife decided to get into a formal weight loss program. Central to the program is food item weights and their extended and cumulative nutritional data 'numbers'. She was using an old mechanical kitchen scale that we've had around for many years, then looking up and extending the nutritional data 'numbers' manually. I figured that in this day and age, their must be a digital/electronic alternative, so I browsed Amazon to find one. This was the best, in my opinion, so I ordered it for her. It works great! Additionally, it is very user-friendly. All of the structural parts are plastic, but that doesn't present an issue to us. It does have a tare weight function (very quick and easy; 'one touch'), and the fact that you can add up to 50 items' nutritional data that aren't already 'on board' in memory is very cool. The wife loves it and uses it constantly! As a result, she is remaining right on plan with her weight loss progress, per her coach. As for me, I look forward to using it to weigh flour for baking -- that is, if she'll let me use it...;). Tom Chekouras

Just my two cents. I'm a bodybuilder and an athlet thus involved in a planned sport diet. Due to this I have been using several kitchen scales from al round the world. I live in Italy. As far as I know, this scale is the only one with this features. I have seen something similar here in Europe (although at almost triple the price), but nothing like this. The display shows exactly what you see when looking at the nutritional facts on the food package. It is a very precise scale. It has hundreds of food nutritional facts pre programmed and 99 blank position that can be filled by the user food data. In addition, it has a 'total' function which allows to sum all the food of the day so to know the quantity of all the macronutrients ingested. Definitely a must for everyone who cares to check what is eating and how much. The only little mole I have found (at least for me but other can disagree) is that when dialing personal food nutitional fact no decimal can be dialed. This means that if a food has 12,4 protein in 100 grams you can only dial 12 or 13: no decimals. Guess I can survive with it but I would suggest the producer to implement this feature in future version of the scale. Michael Mellner, Italy