Customer Reviews

Salter 1450 Digital Nutritional Scale

5 star:		(16)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

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!

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.

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.

i returned this product for refund. it is much too time consuming to enter the food that is being weighed, i.e. "peanuts": once the scale recognizes the basic word, it scrolls through all sorts of peanut containing foods before actually getting to basic peanuts. it does not recognize small amounts well: i placed 4 small tomatoes on it and it kept registering 0 until i put an entire pound of tomatoes on it, and then removed one after the other until i had only 4 - and it registered their weight then. i don't have that kind of time or patience. since i am now out of pocket for shipping charges, both ways, i am extremely dissatisfied.

I have had this scale for several months and I LOVE it! I use it almost daily! I have used the recipe feature a few times and really love it. There are some calculations involved to enter the nutritional values of foods not found in the vast index of foods in this scale but those are not difficult calculations. I also really love the memory feature and use it when making a salad with many items. I can enter each item in memory and then get a total count for my whole salad! I recommend this scale! I bought my scale elsewhere and paid about $25.00 more for it than it is listed here on Amazon!

I returned the item as it took too long to calculate the foods that I ate away from home into grams and most of the time I wouldn't know how many grams the food was. I put half of an avocado on the sccale and it didn't give a readout. I had to put the whole avocado on the scale to get it to weigh, although I was only using half of an avocado. I'm going back to looking everything up in a book and save a lot of time.

This scale is awesome, it works right out of the box! I am so happy with it.

This product is a lifesaver for people who are on a calorie-controlled diet or who are very health conscious.

I recommend this to anyone who is dieting. You will surely reach your goals if you use this tool to keep to your daily calorie limit. It's the best method of weight loss!

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.

This is one of two scales I own. I keep this scale at work, and it's extremely convienet, as it doesn't take up much desk space. It's great for those that work, and must purchase food at or near work (i.e., not bring food in), as it allows one to weigh any type of food. It has a library of about 1,100 foods, and will give nutritional breakdown of all foods in library. Also, if the food you weigh is not in the database, at the very least, one can weigh the food, and then obtain the food's nutritional info online. It also allows one to store their food intake day to day.

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.