Food Scale With Nutritional Calculator Review

The Food Scale with nutritional calculator is worth buying if you already track macros and want the math done on the platform instead of in an app. It weighs 2g to 5,000g, breaks food down by type from a 1M+ food database, and works out of the box with the battery pre-installed. Buy it.

How this review was made: written from my own video review of this product. Every opinion here is my own, from using it myself.

Say Hello

The screen greets you when you turn it on. I showed it on camera because it tells you immediately this isn’t a dumb glass plate with a seven-segment readout. The company sent me this Food Scale because I’m a certified personal trainer and nutrition coach, and meal tracking is where most people’s goals quietly fall apart.

The layout splits in two. Weight up top, the nutrition breakdown down below. First thing I did was throw some cheese on it with nothing selected. Weight moved. The bottom half didn’t budge. That confused me for a second until I realized the scale needs to know what it’s looking at before it can do the math.

What Ownership Costs After You Buy It

Almost nothing. The battery comes already installed, so it works right out of the box, and there’s no subscription gate on the scale itself. The companion app is a download if you want day, week and month records, and I don’t use it. I rely just on the scale.

That’s the part I’d underline if you’re app-fatigued. The nutrition calculation runs on the device itself, calories and macros show up on the TFT the moment you place food down, no phone unlocked, no account created. The app adds a day, week, and month log if you want the history; I don’t use it.

Nutrition estimates, not lab precision

Here’s the part buyers get wrong, and it’s worth saying plainly before you check out. The scale doesn’t scan your food, it looks up a category you select, so the number it gives you is only as specific as that category. I had it set to cheese from the last thing I measured, and sharp cheddar and part-skim mozzarella are not the same macros. One generic “cheese” entry has to stand in for both.

So the number on the TFT display is an estimate built on a generic entry. That’s fine. Some tracking is better than no tracking, and this gets you in the ballpark to make sure you’re close to hitting your overall goal. If you’re a competitive bodybuilder peaking for a show, you’re going to want branded entries. Everyone else, the ballpark is where results actually come from.

The other friction worth knowing: you click through the food list to get to what you want. There’s no keyboard on the device for the preset selector, so finding olive oil means cycling. Not a deal-breaker, but it’s slower than typing.

Cheese, Cycled Units, and the Food List

Once the food type was set, the bottom of the screen came alive. I put the cheese back on and the display started reporting against cheese instead of just grams. That’s the whole pitch of the product working in about two seconds.

I cycled the units too: ounces, pounds and ounces, grams, milliliters. I went back to pounds and ounces because I kind of like that one. Five unit options total including separate milliliter modes for water and milk, which matters if you’re measuring liquids by volume rather than converting in your head.

The food list goes deep. Olive oil’s in there. A bunch of different meats, milk, bacon, chicken. For meal prep that’s most of what I weigh in a given week, and being able to narrow down the type of food I’m eating is what I love about it. The 2 g floor means it’ll read a splash of oil, not just a steak.

Worth flagging on the data side: this one’s selling better now than it has been, ranking #10,607 in Kitchen & Dining against a 90-day average near #14,016, with more than 800 bought in the past month. Price has been flat for three months, so there’s no obvious reason to sit and wait for a dip. Current pricing is on the product page.

Where I Landed After Using It

I’m a big fan of this scale, and the reason is narrower than the marketing suggests. It removes the step where you weigh something, then open your phone, then search a database, then type a number. The weight and the calorie breakdown land on one screen at the same time. For someone coaching clients on adherence, that step reduction is worth more than another decimal of accuracy.

Understand what you’re buying, though. You’re buying a very good kitchen scale with a nutrition estimator bolted on, not a nutrition lab. Pick the closest food category, accept you’re in the ballpark, and keep going. If that workflow fits how you already eat, stop waiting and order it.

Pros

• Weight and nutrition breakdown on one screen, no phone needed
• Food selector covers a lot: cheese, olive oil, several meats, milk, bacon, chicken
• Five unit options including separate ml modes for water and milk
• Battery pre-installed, works out of the box
• App is optional, not a gate on the hardware

Cons

• Nutrition is only as accurate as a generic category, one “cheese” entry covers wildly different profiles
• You click through the preset selector to find your food, which is slower than searching
• If you don’t set the food type first, the bottom half of the display does nothing

Frequently Asked Questions

Does the app require an account or subscription?

The app is a free companion download that records nutrition by day, week and month. You don’t need it at all to use the scale, which is how I run mine. The nutrition calculation happens on the device itself.

Can I weigh a bowl without counting the bowl’s weight?

Yes, it has a tare function that zeroes out container weight. That’s how you’d weigh protein powder into a shaker or chicken into a prep container without doing subtraction.

Will it handle a big batch of meal prep in one go?

Up to 5,000 g, so roughly 11 pounds on the platform. That’s a whole tray of chicken, not just a single portion. The floor is 2 g if you’re measuring something small.

How do I clean it?

Wipe the platform down, don’t submerge it. There’s electronics and a battery in there, so running it under a tap is how you kill it. Food gets weighed directly on the surface, so wipe after raw meat.

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