Salter 1450 Digital Nutritional Scale
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Anyone who is health-conscious will appreciate Salter’s sleek digital nutritional scale with built-in dietary computer. It analyzes the nutritional content of food by portion size. It calculates calories, protein, carbohydrate, total sugars, total fat, fiber, sodium, cholesterol, net carbohydrates, and G.I value of food on a large LCD display. The scale’s database stores the nutritional values of over 1,430 foods, and can memorize an additional 100 foods/recipes of your cho…
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2:22 am on November 26th, 2009
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!
3:03 am on November 26th, 2009
Perhaps had I not previously owned a Salter 1400 I would have liked the 1450. I much prefer entering a simple number for a food (e.g. apple is #205) on the 1400 than to type out the food name on a keypad (pressing the number 5 three times to type an “L”). Being able to customize the 1450 scale is fabulous, but I just wouldn’t use it that often. It’s a good product, just cumbersome. I returned it to Amazon and purchased another 1400 and am very happy.
3:49 am on November 26th, 2009
I highly recommend this scale. I have had it for one year and use it three times a day in preparing meals for an insulin-dependent diabetic. Previously I had to use a gram scale with my computer and a printout of USDA food values. The Salter scale is more convenient as it sits right in my prep area.
I haven’t yet had to replace the batteries.
I don’t think there is an alternative to this scale, but it has some minor drawbacks: the LCD readout is dim, as are the ones on my Krups oven and Cuisinart coffeemaker. The phone-style touch pad is inconvenient, but often I find shortcuts (such as “fren” instead of “bread” for french bread). I printed out the mfgr’s index sheet to see just where my item might be listed.) There are too many foods included that restricted diets don’t tolerate (“Baby Ruth” every time I want “banana” or “bagel”. I don’t think any food that normally comes with a nutrition label on the wrapper needs to be included.) A few fruit items vary greatly from the USDA listing so I keep a crib sheet with my food log comparing the two, and watch the effects on my diabetic patient’s blood sugar levels.
I keep the scale covered with clear plastic wrap, under the tray, to prevent spills into the key pad.
With all that, I wouldn’t be without it.