Digital Nutrition Scale
Eating properly is an important component to keep ourselves healthy. This EatSmart digital nutrition scale can help you keep track of the nutritional values of the foods you eat, including calories, fat, sodium, cholesterol and many more.EatSmart Digital Nutrition Scale
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What is it? It is a digital food scale that weighs the food placed on the scale, and at the same time calculates the amount of 12 major nutrients that it contains, using its internal database of 999 most common whole foods.
Here are the main features of the EatSmart kitchen food scale:
- It calculates the amount of 12 major nutritional values including calories, carbohydrates, fiber, sodium, potassium, magnesium, total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, calcium, protein and vitamin K if the food weighed is in its comprehensive database.
- The database contains 999 most common whole foods, including most fruits, vegetables, meats and other fresh foods that we actually eat.
- Tare feature: It allows you to zero out the weight of a container and capture only the weight and nutritional data for the food contents.
- Memory feature: It adds the nutritional data for the current food portion to memory. This can be really useful when you want track your totals for the whole meal (or whole day or whole week for that matter). Up to 99 entries can be added.
- Nutrition Facts Calculator: Use this to calculate nutrients for any food whose container comes with a nutrition facts label (e.g. breakfast cereals).
How do you use it? Simple. Look up the food code (of the food you are about to weigh), key that food code into the nutrition scale, and place the food on the scale. The weight and the nutritional values will automatically be calculated and displayed.
How do you use the Memory feature? This is best explained using an example. Let's say you are cooking a meal with two ingredients: baby carrots and atlantic salmon. And you have a glass of wine to go with it.
- Place an empty plate on the balance. Then press the tare button to zero it out.
- Find out the code for baby carrots (097) and key it in. Put the carrots on the plate. Press the memory save button. Press the tare button
- Find out the code for atlantic salmon (575) and key it in. Put the salmon on the plate. Press the memory save button. Remove the plate.
- Put an empty glass on the balance. Press the tare button.
- Pour wine into the glass. Press the memory save button.
- Now press the memory recall button. You can now see the total nutritional values for your meal (i.e. the total for carrots, salmon and wine). This is really useful.
How do you use the Nutrition Facts Calculator? This is a unique feature offered by the EatSmart nutrition scale. Let's say you are going to eat a bowl of cereals and you are interested in the carbohydrate content. From the nutrition label on the box, you can see that one serving is 30g, of which 25g is carbohydrates. You would do the following:
- Press the mode key and the word calculator appears on the screen.
- Place a bowl on the balance. Press the tare button. Pour some cereals in the bowl.
- Press the serving key and enter 30.
- Press the nutrient key and enter 25.
- Press the equal key. The unit automatically calculates the amount of carbohydrates on your bowl.
- If you now add cereals to (or remove cereals from) the bowl, the amount of carbohydrates are recalculated.
Let's say you want to have 65g of carbs with the cereals. Just keep adding (or subtracting) cereals until you see 65 appearing on the screen. It is this simple. You can do this procedure for calories, saturated fat, cholesterol etc. Whatever that interests you.
Hope you can see the power of this nutrition scale. It takes the guesswork out of working out portion sizes, and helps you learn how to judge food portions and nutrient content by sight. You will make many surprising discoveries and become healthier as a result.
The EatSmart digital nutrition scale has received great reviews
Improve your health by controlling what you are eating. This nutritional scale can help you achieve your goal.
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