Beurer DS61 Nutritional Analysis Scale, White 20.700cm x 5.200cm x 25.700cm (BxHxT)

Very nice piece of kit! The unit is smart and not over-large. The display is very sharp and clear. The food values are in the booklet which accompanies the scales. They appear to me to be in line with current dietary advice from other sources. I use them for carbohydrate values. The only issue is that the the item listings are not alphabetical and some of the descriptions are a bit Germanic. Overall I'm very happy with these scales. They are a big step up from the previous Salter model I owned.

These are fantastic - why didn't I discover them earlier! I have a type 1 diabetic son and we have to weigh out everything he eats and calculate the carbs. With these wonderful scales he still has to weigh everything out, but he can now choose to have as much or as little as he wants and the scales tell him the amount of carbs the food contains. They even do a running total, so he can make himself a massive bowl of breakfast cereal, milk and raisins and the scales will give him the total. I cannot comment on the other nutritional values because we only use the carb function. And we don't use any of the pre set values so I don't know how accurate they are. We have only used the slots that we programme ourselves and it is pretty straight forward to do. Anything that makes life that little bit easier for a diabetic is worth its weight in gold.

Great item. Just what we wanted. It’s easy to use and is useful as you can split each individual food group to get a total.

These are great scales; accurate, nice to look at, with a clear display. My only issue is with the food codes listed in the manual. They are not ordered alphabetically, presumably because the list has just been translated from German. There are also some very niche foods, some I've never heard of, and some that are so vague I don't see how they could be useful. For example, I couldn't find baked beans, but I could find these:-- cheese pie with walnuts- knackwurst- Meat cut into strips, Zurich style, dry product / powder form- Leipzig vegetable medley, deep-frozen- Pan-cooked vegetables, French, deep-frozen- Pan-cooked vegetables, Italian, deep-frozen- Pan-cooked vegetables, Mexican, deep-frozen- CheeseburgerThat's not to say none of the codes are useful; a great deal of them are. And I'm not suggesting that I baked beans should be given top priority. It's just obvious that it is a German product being sold in the UK, but it isn't geared towards the UK market. However, 50 of the 1000 codes are programable so you can create a few of your own, including baked beans if you wish :)All in all it's a really good set of scales and very handy for tracking nutrition. I would give it 5 stars if they had made a version aimed at the UK market.

I ordered these scales for carb counting and they are great. They have a reference book with common food items included. You type in the three digit code and the nutrition information is displayed. Very useful set of scales.

The build quality and convenience of this product seem pretty good but that's where the 'pros' end. For 'cons', there is the 'German food list _lazily_ translated to English' (plenty other people pointed this out so I was aware before buying and I had intended to print out my own list anyway). Some of the items are very 'odd' though and it still seems mean to have 950 items hardwired (of which maybe 50-100 are useful) and leave only 50 memory slots free for user items. Again, I knew this before buying and was intending to work around it.The thing that can't be worked around is the fact that the display is practically unreadable unless viewed from just the right angle in the right lighting due to the ghosting of all the 'unlit' LCD segments in the digits which makes them almost as bold as the segments that are lit. Normally a contrast adjustment or something similar would be used to fix that issue but there are no controls/settings to allow this. Additionally, the 7-segment LCD digits themselves are quite tall and narrow and packed in very close together making reading more difficult still. Finally, the digits on the far right of the screen are so far over that they are almost hidden by the casing.Overall, a nice idea in theory that has been poorly implemented in practice and does not travel well outside Germany. Avoid.

This is a very sensitive, and very useful piece of kit. It can be a bit confusing to use with the manual, but is very accurate and simple for just weighing things. Overall, I would definitely recommend this to anyone who needs to check the nutritional value of ingredients/foods by weight.

Seems good quality but the Food codes are enough to make me wish I hadn't purchased it. I bought it purely as a calorie counter for medical reasons. Not only are they in fairly random, non alphabetical order (due to the direct translation from German) but some basic essentials are missing, such as peppers. (I will see how these can be added)When they were creating this list, it will have been done on a computer listing - so WHY did they not simply list as alphabetical after translation?Probably fine if you don't wish to read calories.