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| | | If you're working toward specific nutrition goals such as losing weight, gaining muscle, or diversifying your nutrient intake, tracking the food you eat throughout the day can help you stay on course. For example, if you want to eat a high protein diet without overdoing it on the calories, it can help to know exactly how many calories and how much protein you're getting at each meal. | | High tech food scales (aka smart food scales) promise to help you track your food intake more easily and accurately. But do they work as well as they claim to? Kirsten Seele, a registered dietitian at Healthline and Wellos Coach, gives her expert opinion below. | | | | | | | Hope this helps!
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October 10, 2024 • 3.5 min read | | | | | Powered by | |  | |  | | | | Q: | How accurate are high tech food scales? | | | A: | Before this great question, I was actually unaware these high tech food scales existed. Even as a dietitian, I'm learning something new every day too!
Unlike basic food scales, which are commonly used to weigh food for portion control and weigh out ingredients for baking, these high tech options calculate a food's nutrient profile based on the food's weight. They often include an integration with a cellphone app to help you keep track of nutrients throughout the day, week, month, etc. Some scales also keep track of these nutrients right on the machine itself so you can take note of your progress without checking the app.
The most obvious benefits of these high tech scales are accuracy and efficiency. By weighing a food, you take the guesswork out of determining how much you're consuming, which should help you track nutrients more precisely. When researching a scale to buy, check to see that it pulls nutrient data from a reputable source such as the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Another thing you may look for is how many food items a scale has in its database — some might have 90 options, while others might have 2,000.
However, we also know that each food serving we consume can have a different nutritional value from day to day than what the USDA sampled to get its values, but that's OK! Logging and tracking will never be 100% perfect. We can do our best to avoid human error, such as by calibrating our scales and using the "tare" function properly. | |  | | Written by Kirsten Seele
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