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

I purchased this scale to upgrade an old analog scale hoping the features would simplify my life and I wasn't wrong.The tare function is a great start helping differentiate between the food you'll actually put in your belly and the container holding it. The food directory and corresponding codes are also a great help and make things a lot easier than simply weighing then trying to figure out the corresponding nutritional values online.The best function is being able to program your own foods into the scale that aren't part of the guide, makes it handy when there are certain foods that are a staple in your home.The cons are it can be difficult to read sometimes, I think they should have offered a backlit screen. The unit itself seems a bit flimsy, like one fall from a countertop could potential render the scale useless. I purchased this unit when amazon had it on sale for $22 including shipping so at that price it was a great buy, unsure if I would have purchased at the current price of $49 but I suppose if it's still working a couple of years from now that $49 price tag would be worth it.

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.