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4. ANALYZING YOUR FOODS
This scale uses an alphanumeric keypad to search for foods, eliminating the
need to refer to a separate food code list. The alphanumeric keypad operates
in a similar way to the keypad on a mobile phone. The majority of the al-
phanumeric keys have three or four letters and one number assigned.
To analyze a food:
a) Turn the scale on.
b) Press the “FOOD” key. “ENTER FOOD NAME” appears.
c) Press the key with the first letter of the desired food. (Each key controls 3-4
letters). Continue to press that key until the letter you want appears on the
screen. Release the key. (
Note
: If you make an error or wish to search for
another letter, press “DELETE”, then select another letter.)
d) The first alphabetical food appears on the screen. For example, the first
item in the “G” database is Garlic.
e) Press the key with the second letter of the desired food. The display will
scroll to the first food with those two letters. For example “GR” displays Gra-
nola Cereal.
f) Continue to press the keys in this manner until the desired food appears.
Alternately, simply press the (
▲
) or (
▼
) key to scroll through the foods start-
ing with the first letter.
g) Press “ENTER” to select a displayed food. Wait for the “Weighing” screen
(0.0) to appear.
h) Press “MODE” to change weight measurements if necessary (lb:oz, ml,
fl.oz, g).
i) Place the food to be weighed on the scale. The weight will display. Please
allow a few seconds for the scale to calculate the nutritional values.
j) The scale beeps. Press the (
▲
) or (
▼
) key to view the nutritional values.
k) Press Cancel once to return to food name screen. Press Cancel again to
return to the “Enter Food Name” screen. Press a third time to return to the
basic weighing screen.
TIPS:
1. If while using the keypad to search for a food and a cursor line ( _ ) ap-
pears next to the letter, the scale is prompting for the next letter of the
food name. Press the DELETE key to back up to the first letter if needs to be
changed.
2. A space can be entered between words by using the 0 key.
3. To find foods quickly, type the most specific word to describe the food; for
example, if searching for EDAM CHEESE; typing the word EDAM will find the
food faster than typing the word CHEESE. The reason for this is that CHEESE
has many variations and you will have to scroll through the CHEESE list to
find CHEESE EDAM, which may be more time consuming!
4. If a typed food is not in the database. For example, there is no food that
starts with “Pw”, the scale will beep and back up to a cursor. Continue to
type in a corret letter.
5. Press CANCEL to cancel an operation and return to the previous step. (Ex-
ample: return to basic weighing mode rather than food analyzing mode.)
Continue to press CANCEL until the scale returns to the screen you wish to
view.
6. When you need to enter numerical data (such as nutritional values), the
keypad will automatically switch to ‘numbers only’.
7. Some of the nutritional categories may appear blank if data is unavailable
for that particular food.
8. You may add or remove food from the scale any time. Please allow the
scale a few seconds to re-calculate the nutritional values. The scale will
beep twice when the nutritional values are updated and the scale is
ready for use again.
