Beurer DS 81 User Manual

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ETTING TO KNOW YOUR INSTRUMENT

Instrument functions

These digital diet kitchen scales are used to
weigh food and monitor diet. Weight is dis-
played in 1 g graduations. The scales are
designed for private use. The following func-
tions can thus be performed quickly and
easily:

• measuring the weight of foodstuffs up to

5000 g (weighing mode).

• determining various nutritional values

(protein content, fat content, cholesterol,
carbohydrate content) of 1000 foodstuffs.

• determining the energy value of 1000

foodstuffs in kilocalories (kcal) or kilojoules
(kJ).

• calculating the carbohydrate content in

bread units (BE)

• storing foodstuffs which have been

weighed over a specific period and dis-
playing the totals (storage mode).

The diet kitchen scales also have the follow-
ing functions:

• Additional weighing function (tare function)

for weighing foodstuffs directly one after
the other in one bowl

• Possibility to switch between grams and

ounces

• Automatic switch-off function after 90

seconds

• Automatic warning function when the up-

per weighing range limit of 5000 g is ex-
ceeded

• 'Change battery' display when batteries

are low

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AFETY INFORMATION

WARNING

Note that you must not take any medica-
tion (e.g. administration of insulin) based
solely on the nutritional information of the
the diet scale. Check the nutritional in-
formation against a second source before
administering medication (e.g. literature
on the subject, nutritional courses).
A plausibility check is particularly impor-
tant in view of possible operating errors
(e.g. typing errors when entering informa-
tion) as well as possible deviations of
nutritional food values from the approxi-
mate values stored in the diet scale. In
serious cases, this could lead to errors in
administering medication, for which we
cannot assume liability.

IMPORTANT

• The values stored in the scale for

finished products and mixtures (e.g.
Black Forest gateau) may be subject
to relatively great deviations depend-
ing on the manufacturer or prepara-
tion. With finished products, we there-
fore recommend comparing the values
with the information given by the ma-
nufacturer on the packaging and, with
mixtures, we recommend calculating
the nutritional value by addition of the
separate ingredients.

• The stored nutritional values for the

individual food items are programmed
into the scale in good faith and in ac-
cordance with the applicable data at
the time of printing the instructions for
use.

• If foods have no information (display:

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), do not add these to the sum

function. The end result could be in-
correct.