Salter 1450 Digital Nutritional Scale
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Salter 1450 Digital Nutritional Scale
Customer Review: Diabetic's Dream!
Summary: 5 Stars
i've heard nothing but rave reviews from other diabetics about this scale.. i kept thinking to myself ehh i don't need a scale.. and then for the next two months i found myself needing one and wishing time and time again that i had one. finally, i went and hunted one down online. i waited ..ANTICIPATED for two weeks it's arrival. i just got it today and its a beauty! i like that it can run on batteries, or you can plug in a wall adapter if you have one.. there's a slot on the left side of the scale for putting a plug in. i'm gonna be making good use of this baby (as a perfect sidekick to the calorie king website!). the only thing missing would be for it to have a way to hook it up to your computer and download your food logs into a spreadsheet that you can graph or analyze or print out. if it could do all that as well then it would be the scaleKing! otherwise, this thing is the best scale i've come across as far as keeping tabs on my diet and nutrition. i plan on using it to help me learn more accurate carb counting so that first, i won't overstuff my mouth, lol, and second, so that my type1 diabetic body will thank me for the acurate insulin dosing! =D Get this scale, i highly doubt you'll Not find a frequent use for it.Customer Review: Good scale with all the info, but could be faster to use
Summary: 4 Stars
this is a great scale. It has a large database of foods, and gives complete nutritional infomation on virtually every food you can think of. I really only have 2 negatives which keep it from getting a 5 star review:
1) Looking up the food items requires you to enter text on a numeric keypad (like texting on a cell phone) and the response time is fairly slow. So, it gets frustrating. A small blackberry size keyboard with faster response time on the screen would be a HUGE improvement.
2) It would be great if you could store your top 10 or top 20 favorite foods. Right now, we have to reenter the type of food every time, and it takes longer than we wish using the numeric keypad.
But, the scale is nice looking, the battery lasts a long time, and it really makes it easy. We have traveled with ours around the world. It isn't small, but it is great!
Customer Review: Great Features!
Summary: 5 Stars
This scale is great for weighing food and liquids. The best thing about it is you can weigh multiple items on the same plate. Just reset it to "0" once you get the weight of one thing on your plate, then put the next item on and get the weight of that item... It's very user friendly.Customer Review: Great Scale
Summary: 4 Stars
Great for keeping weight of food easily. I especially enjoy that you can zero the scale as you place your portions of each food on the plate. Easy to use.Customer Review: Great timesaver for diabetics!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is wonderful for counting carbs. I'm not sure what issue the previous reviewer had about insensitivity of the scale, mine certainly is not like that. I keep it in grams mode since most products are weighed more accurately that way, and I can weigh an individual goldfish cracker or an almond accurately. Carbs, calories, protein, all the info from the national database is included and it's been accurate based on my experience, with the notable exception of corn on the cob (carbs are undercounted).
I don't find the scrolling thing to be annoying at all, and I thought I would.
I do think the process for adding an entire recipe of something is cumbersome. It's time consuming and you can't just enter in the volume of something--you need to know the weight. The best time to enter a recipe is when you're making it, so you can do it as you go. If you make lots of casseroles or those kinds of foods and you really want to just be able to weigh a serving of a mixed food item, then it would be worth the trouble.