Salter 1450 Digital Nutritional Scale Review
Salter 1450 Digital Nutritional Scale
The Salter 1450 Digital Nutritional Scale is a great tool for the dieter that’s focusing on portion control and counting calories. This salter scale come with 1,430 foods and liquids already programmed into its database. It also provides an additional 100 slots for you to program the nutritional values of your favorite foods and/or recipes that aren’t currently stored in the scale. So, for instance, instead of having to look up the nutritional values of each individual ingredient of spaghetti, you can make a one time calculation and program the dish’s nutritional value as a whole into the Salter 1450 Digital Nutritional Scale so you won’t have to go through the trouble again next time you’re in the mood for spaghetti but need to know the nutritional information of the already mixed ingredients.
The Salter 1450 Digital Nutritional scale analyzed nutritional content of your food by portion size. It outputs multiple data on each food item, including: amount of calories, protein, net carbohydrates, total sugars, total fat, cholesterol, fiber, sodium, and GI value. With the Salter 1450 Digital Nutritional Scale you can record daily food intake and set dietary goals. You can also review your progress. This salter scale was specifically designed to help in portion control.
The only draw backs to this scale that I have found are that it sometimes has problems weighing items that are considered to be less than a portion size and the LCD display isn’t very bright. On the plus side, it does not suck the juice out of the batteries very quickly. The set of batteries that are included when you purchase the scale tend to last for a very long time.
Additional specifications include:
- Large LCD display
- Stainless steel weighing tray
- 10 year warranty included
- 4 AA batteries included
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(out of 25 reviews)
List Price: $ 100.00
Price: $ 89.94
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Review by Matthew Cohn for Salter 1450 Digital Nutritional Scale
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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!
Review by C. Lawson for Salter 1450 Digital Nutritional Scale
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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.
Review by JDrum for Salter 1450 Digital Nutritional Scale
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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.
Review by Inge S. Jordan for Salter 1450 Digital Nutritional Scale
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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.
Review by Susan D. Brush for Salter 1450 Digital Nutritional Scale
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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.