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Perfect Portions Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator - Silver
Model: 0450
SKU: 9902407
UPC: 875011004503
Instantly adjust your food's nutritional facts to your portion size with this food scale and nutritional calculator in one. A touch of a button shows you how many calories are in food and also tracks the sugar content. What sets this scale apart from others? Learn more › View features demo › View interactive demo ›
Average Customer Rating:
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Customer Reviews for Perfect Portions Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator - Silver
Review 1 for Perfect Portions Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator - Silver
Perfect scale
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: SergeantMajor
from Minneapolis, MN
on 03/29/2012
A confession, I am a committed foodie who has used scales to cook with for many years. This scale has bells and whistles that will meet almost every real or imagined need a cook may have. The scale measures or evaluates ten different nutritional elements, consider it a built in nutritional label.
The scale runs on two AA batteries so it is conveniently portable. The scale is easy to use, the displays are excellent and the information valuable for anyone tracking their food intake and nutrition. Rather than having to access multiple sources for the information it is all right at hand
This is a scale which everyone who is working toward fat loss should have and use. Those who are simply tracking the nutrition of the foods they and their families are consuming will also find this an invaluable addition. In my opinion this is not a gadget, it is a needed kitchen tool.
The scale runs on two AA batteries so it is conveniently portable. The scale is easy to use, the displays are excellent and the information valuable for anyone tracking their food intake and nutrition. Rather than having to access multiple sources for the information it is all right at hand
This is a scale which everyone who is working toward fat loss should have and use. Those who are simply tracking the nutrition of the foods they and their families are consuming will also find this an invaluable addition. In my opinion this is not a gadget, it is a needed kitchen tool.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 2 for Perfect Portions Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator - Silver
Listing guide too cumbersome
Customer Rating
3.0
What's great about it: Easy to set up, easy to use
What's not so great: Listing guide for foods is too cumbersome
It is a small and petty thing to complain about but the listing guide is not designed well for proper navigation. One would think that they would simply list all the programmed foods in the booklet in alphabetical order to help save time. But I digress.
This product is very handy when you want to know the nutritional facts of foods that you have no idea what they are for the quantity that you have. Very handy also for baking.
I would recommend this to a friend who was needing to get an idea of what they were consuming and had some time to spend with the product.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 3 for Perfect Portions Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator - Silver
I'm too OCD for this scale
Customer Rating
1.0
Posted by: LunarT
on 02/09/2012
Its not bad if you want to follow a generic diet. I just can't use a scale when it generalizes everything. My OJ has 10mg of sodium and the scale tells me 3mg. Until there is a perfect system where all of the same food items, no matter the brand have the same nutrition facts, I cannot use a scale like this. I'm getting a plain digital scale so I can use each individual N.F.'s for each item. Maybe I'm the problem?...no, we just need a perfect universal system. We need food engineers!
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Review 4 for Perfect Portions Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator - Silver
Great use it all the time
Customer Rating
5.0
Value for Price
5.0
Quality
5.0
Usefulness
5.0
Performance
5.0
What's great about it: Compact but not too small, readout, ease of use.
What's not so great: nothing
Had to practice using the total function for accumulating carb counts. Remember to clear the total when done! Very easy to use otherwise. Someone said it wasn't stable when pushing button, these are touch buttons. Just touch them and the take your input. It is quite stable and sturdy. Code book has about everything I've looked for, have printed off a list of commonly use ones. The only one I've ever tried, just diagnosed Type 2 a few months ago, so can't judge against others but can't imagine one better.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+2points
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Review 5 for Perfect Portions Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator - Silver
portion control is key
Customer Rating
4.0
A lot of my skinny friends say portion control and food logs are key to weigh loss, especially in the beginning. It’s not something I’m planning to do hard core my whole life, because once you get the hang of it, you know things like that a fistful of almonds is around 160 calories, and you don’t have to weigh and measure everything (or so I’m told!)
My new best friend in helping me with this?? This scale~ it instantly adjust your food's nutritional facts to your portion size with this food scale and nutritional calculator in one. A touch of a button shows you how many calories are in food and also tracks the sugar content.
It comes with 3 things: the scale, an instruction booklet, and a food guide with codes to enter in the scale.
* I love that the booklet is laminated because I use it around messy food alot.
*I also love that it fits neatly into a skinny kitchen drawer.
* I love that the booklet is laminated because I use it around messy food alot.
*I also love that it fits neatly into a skinny kitchen drawer.
First, you turn on the side button, then place the bowl, cup, etc that will hold the food (if you are using one) on the scale and press ZERO. Not the number 0 but the word ZERO. I was cursing this scale, pushing 0, wondering why it didn’t work, and then I finally saw that darn ZERO button. Duh. You’ll be way smarter than me.Then, you look up the food code in the booklet, enter it on the scale, place the food on the scale, and that's it!
Once I figured out the zero thing, I have zero complaints. Honestly, I think it’s worth every penny of the $50 price tag if it lasts a good long time.
AND it’s entertainment; my kids love to throw random things on there to see what they weigh. :)
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 6 for Perfect Portions Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator - Silver
Cool scale to keep you on track
Customer Rating
4.0
What's great about it: It's easy to determine the nutrition facts for the exact poriton I'm eating.
What's not so great: I wish there were more codes in the food code book.
You know how it's annoying to figure out, "Hmmmmm, okay, 1 serving of chicken is my fist size, but this is probably one and a half fists. So, uh?" Or is this a "small" sized apple or a "medium" sized one? Who knows! Grrrrr. This scale cuts out all that guesswork. It weighs it, calculates it, then tells me what I need to know. It even has a feature to keep a running total of stats for the day. Cool.
The Perfect Portions Scale has about 2,000 food items stored in its memory, but it also allows for an additional 99 food entries. I can add and save unusual foods I may have in my diet and then recall them at any time. Again, cool.
So here's how it works. You look up your food item in the food code book (which is plastic coated and very well organized) and find the code for what you're going to eat. I wanted almonds, which are code 0631. So I entered that code into the scale.
Then I plopped my almonds right on top and watched my info come up instantly. If I want less, I can just take off one almond at a time until I get down to the calories I want. Then I can scoop them off and gobble them up. Easy.
So, even though the top of the scale is glass and really easy to clean, you can't really plop liquid stuff right down on top, like yogurt, for example. So you can place a bowl down first, 'auto tare' the scale (balance it out at zero) by pressing ZERO, and then plug in the number for your item.
Then you add your yogurt in by the scoopful and watch as the nutrition facts change instantly with each scoop. Ooooops, too much yogurt? Just scoop a little back out and put it back in the yogurt container for another day. Perfectly portioned.
Okay, now seriously, how many times have you just "guessed" how much you were eating or what the calculations were? No more of that for me. You know it's hard to count out exactly how many crackers/chips/pretzels from a bag by following the serving size number on a food package. They're always broken or different sizes. I don't have to count anymore or puzzle piece chip bits back together to equal one chip. Or even do the math if I just want to add 10 more calories to my portion.
This scale has earned a permanent spot right on my counter. You could say we're friends now.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+7points
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Review 7 for Perfect Portions Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator - Silver
Good not great
Customer Rating
3.0
What's great about it: easy to use
What's not so great: having to look up each item in a separate book
I have never used a food scale like the Perfect Portions - Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator before. I have weighed out ingredients on an old-fashioned scale once or twice. I have also googled nutritional content of a food item here or there. This little scale Best Buy sent me was handy in that you could do both at the same time.
It is really fascinating to see, for a change, what a proper portion looks like. This scale is easy enough to use; you look up the code that corresponds to the food you're eating, punch in its code and instantly you have all sorts of information at your hands -- calories, fat content, sugar, carbs, protein and more.
I had no problems getting it to work as it should. I would have liked to see the ability to search on the device for my item instead of having to look it up in a separate booklet. Having to keep track of another little paper something is my only complaint about this scale.
While I can't see myself using this forever and a day, I do think this will be a good tool to learn what certain sizes should look like and becoming familiar with the nutritional content of them. I think it will also make a good tool to teach my kids the same things.
It is really fascinating to see, for a change, what a proper portion looks like. This scale is easy enough to use; you look up the code that corresponds to the food you're eating, punch in its code and instantly you have all sorts of information at your hands -- calories, fat content, sugar, carbs, protein and more.
I had no problems getting it to work as it should. I would have liked to see the ability to search on the device for my item instead of having to look it up in a separate booklet. Having to keep track of another little paper something is my only complaint about this scale.
While I can't see myself using this forever and a day, I do think this will be a good tool to learn what certain sizes should look like and becoming familiar with the nutritional content of them. I think it will also make a good tool to teach my kids the same things.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+2points
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Review 8 for Perfect Portions Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator - Silver
Great tool to have in the kitchen
Customer Rating
4.0
Value for Price
4.0
Quality
5.0
Usefulness
5.0
Performance
4.0
What's great about it: Calculates the calories of your food
What's not so great: the food codes need to be available online or in an app
I have an app on my phone that helps me track the food I eat. I enter the food and the amount, measured by volume, and the app calculates the nutritional information of what I have eaten during each meal. It is handy when trying to watch what you eat, but measuring by volume is not very accurate.
Almost everyone that knows anything about weight loss will suggest you get a food scale. But a scale will require you to calculate the nutritional information on your own. I don't know about you, but I am not usually in the mood to do a little math before I eat breakfast in the morning.
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a scale that would do the math for you at 5am? Well there is! The Perfect Portions - Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator.
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a scale that would do the math for you at 5am? Well there is! The Perfect Portions - Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator.
The Perfect Portions scale weighs your food like a regular scale, but when you enter the food code for the item you are eating it will calculate the nutritional facts for you.
It will even add up all of the items you use to prepare your breakfast, like oatmeal, milk, and blueberries, and give you the total for all of the items. No need to write down each individual item to keep track. It will tell you the total calories, calories from fat, carbohydrates, protein, fat, saturated fat, fiber, sugar, cholesterol, and sodium in the items that you have weighed.
All of the facts make it handy when you're trying to watch your weight, control your portions, or if you have special health issues that requires you to watch your sodium or sugar intake. But because the Perfect Portions scale is also a scale, giving you measurements in grams and ounces, it is perfect for baking as well.
It will even add up all of the items you use to prepare your breakfast, like oatmeal, milk, and blueberries, and give you the total for all of the items. No need to write down each individual item to keep track. It will tell you the total calories, calories from fat, carbohydrates, protein, fat, saturated fat, fiber, sugar, cholesterol, and sodium in the items that you have weighed.
All of the facts make it handy when you're trying to watch your weight, control your portions, or if you have special health issues that requires you to watch your sodium or sugar intake. But because the Perfect Portions scale is also a scale, giving you measurements in grams and ounces, it is perfect for baking as well.
My kids always love to use new gadgets, so right now I am using the scale to monitor snack time. I can get out a bag of baby carrots and put a bowl on the scale and give them a target for how many grams of fiber they have to eat before they can have the cookie they want to eat after school. I used to just assign them a number of carrots, but the addition of a gadget makes it more fun for them, which means less arguing for me.
In addition to all of the food codes that come pre-programmed into the scale, you can add your own custom food codes for items that you eat on a regular basis. You select a code and enter the nutritional information from the label, and the scale will do all of the calculating for you. With a touch of a button you will know how many calories are on your plate and be able to adjust your portion sizes accordingly.
The scale is amazingly accurate. It gave me the nutritional information for just two blueberries. I ate a lot more than two blueberries, but just wanted to see exactly what the scale would do. It comes in fun colors, too. I have the silver version, but it also comes in black, white, red, and blue. Who doesn't love a little color in their kitchen?
The Perfect Portions - Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator is pretty perfect. Now all they need to do is create an app so I can look up the food codes when my daughter has walked off with my food code book.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 9 for Perfect Portions Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator - Silver
Good scale
Customer Rating
4.0
What's great about it: easy to use, love the digital feature
What's not so great: sometimes not accurate
So here’s the hardest thing about trying to eat healthy. Well, not the hardest thing because that would be all the not eating of the cookies and the chips and the bowls of queso and fresh flour tortillas that are an inch thick, but it’s all relative these days.
My biggest issue has always been all these recipe sites or Weight Watcher guidelines that tell you to eat 4 oz of lunch meat or a 6 oz chicken breast. How am I supposed to know that? Am I some sort of food mathematician? Am I supposed to have some kind of unagi that helps me sense the weight of four slices of ham?
Because I don’t have that.
That’s why I was thrilled to get the Perfect Portions – Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator from Best Buy. It instantly adjusts your food’s nutritional facts to your portion size with its food scale and nutritional calculator in one. A touch of a button shows you how many calories are in food and also tracks the sugar content.
See? It does all the hard work for you. Then all you have to do is enjoy those three delicious and totally filling slices of turkey breast with a side of four carrots and an apple.
Maybe for fun I’ll make a big bowl of queso and put that on it or a cheeseburger from Whataburger. It might cause the thing to blow a fuse, but I wouldn’t really do that because I am committed to healthy eating.
The Perfect Portions Scale has helped me so much because it gives me an accurate count of the calories I’m consuming and the nutritional content of all my meals. For someone like me†who doesn’t like to think about those things or use some kind of old-fashioned weighted scale, it is SOLID GOLD. †If you’re trying to make some healthy lifestyle changes, this scale may be just the thing for you.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 10 for Perfect Portions Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator - Silver
I love this scale!
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: bluesky1
from New York
on 11/16/2011
Value for Price
5.0
Quality
5.0
Usefulness
5.0
Performance
5.0
What's great about it: Easy to use, quick nutritional info, add your own foods to the list, zero weight feature
What's not so great: Nothing I've found!
For my purposes, this scale is perfect. I wanted to become more aware of portion sizes and have a way to get a better idea of the calories, etc. in the foods I eat.
My favorite features-
* You can program your own foods. While it comes with a book full of food codes, if there's something you eat that isn't in there, you just add it with it's own unique code.
* The zero weight. You can find the weight and nutrition info for a food when you add it on top of a plate or other foods. You just put the plate on the scale, zero it out, and add your next ingredient.
* Of course, the nutritional info. It's all there and adjusts depending on how much you put on the scale.
I haven't had it long, but it has already helped me with my goals. It's easy to use and small enough to keep in a handy spot in the kitchen.
I would recommend this to a friend!
+9points
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Review 11 for Perfect Portions Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator - Silver
Love It
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: MiaKat
from Florida
on 08/23/2011
Value for Price
5.0
Quality
5.0
Usefulness
5.0
Performance
5.0
What's great about it: Quick and easy
What's not so great: color
This scale is so easy you can start using it immediately. And it gives all of the info I need to track. My friend wants one for herself now too!
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 12 for Perfect Portions Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator - Silver
Never turned on...
Customer Rating
1.0
Posted by: SDTiger
from San Diego, CA
on 08/20/2011
Value for Price
2.0
Quality
2.0
Usefulness
3.0
Performance
1.0
What's great about it: I guess you could use it as a paperweight...
What's not so great: Didn't work from the start
I was excited to use the product, I was getting it on sale and using a reward certificate to get an incredible deal on it. Called the store and put it on hold, drove all the way to Mira Mesa to pick it up. Got home unpacked read directions and went to turn it on...
I only got an LLLL code on the screen. Read the manual and there was no information on why this was happening. I read the troubleshooting info and still nothing. I got new batteries than the ones included, same code on the display.
I didn't feel like driving 25 miles again and back to exchange.
I found a biggest loser food scale at Ross for a quarter of the price on this scale. It gives me the same info in a different format, but still for what I saved on the price I wish I would not have bought this in the first place and wasted my time and money.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Review 13 for Perfect Portions Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator - Silver
It's great!!!
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: naty510
from Rochester, NY
on 02/11/2011
Value for Price
5.0
Quality
5.0
Usefulness
5.0
Performance
5.0
What's great about it: Easy to use, nice design, very accurate
What's not so great: nothing so far
I just got it yesterday and I used it today with breakfast and it was awesome!
I would recommend this to a friend!
+7points
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Review 14 for Perfect Portions Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator - Silver
buy it, you wont be sorry!
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: catblueluvsyou
from haddon heights nj
on 01/18/2011
Value for Price
5.0
Quality
5.0
Usefulness
5.0
Performance
5.0
i just bought this, this morning. i used it with my breakfast. its so easy to use and accurate! i just got the lap band so its really important for me to watch my calories, fat and protein. the book it comes with has easy to follow instructions. its dummy proof. and there are also over 2000 food codes.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 15 for Perfect Portions Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator - Silver
Great accurate scale
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: swimmer55
from Irvine, CA
on 09/28/2010
Value for Price
5.0
Quality
5.0
Usefulness
5.0
Performance
5.0
What's great about it: Easy to use
What's not so great: Hard to read in dim light
I found this scale to be very usefull and accurate. The previous reviewer confused fluid ounces and dry weight ounces. Fluid ounces are a measure of volume and not a measure of weight. The weight of 12 fluid ounces is determined by the desity of the liquid. This scale accurately measures the weight of items. It is a good way to determine portion size.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 16 for Perfect Portions Food Scale with Nutritional Calculator - Silver
Complete JUNK!
Customer Rating
1.0
Posted by: dgerard
from Tucson, Az
on 07/18/2010
Value for Price
1.0
Quality
1.0
Usefulness
1.0
Performance
1.0
What's great about it: Easy to take out of box
What's not so great: Completely inaccurate and therefore worthless!
The whole idea of a scale is to have accurate weight! This scale did not weigh any item correctly in grams or ounces.
We tried multiple items with weights listed on the product such as: a 12 ounce can of soda, which weighed 7.62 ounces on the scale just to give an example.
For $50.00 this item is completely worthless.... :0(
We tried multiple items with weights listed on the product such as: a 12 ounce can of soda, which weighed 7.62 ounces on the scale just to give an example.
For $50.00 this item is completely worthless.... :0(
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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