COSORI Smart Nutrition Scale: Two-minute review
New for 2025 in the world of health and fitness technology is the enticing COSORI Smart Nutrition Scale. I actually first encountered it on TikTok where I’ve seen a couple of viral posts about it, and now COSORI has officially launched the Smart Kitchen Scale in the UK. See the Price and Availability section for full details.
As a fitness enthusiast with an interest in food and nutrition, but as someone who often struggles to track food and count calories, the COSORI seemed right up my street, and after my initial go at using the scale I have to say I’m really impressed. It’s not perfect, and the methodology has a couple of obvious flaws I’ll get to, but this is a nifty little kitchen gadget that will catch the eye of guests and make a great sub-£50/$50 gift for the gym enthusiast in your life.
Out of the box, 6he COSORI feels premium and well-built, which you’d hope for a scale that costs nearly 50 bucks. The plastic base houses three AAA batteries, while the platform is made up of food-grade 304 stainless steel that’s designed to be easy to clean. The sizing is pretty generous, it’s a lot larger than my bog-standard kitchen scale and feels more useful as a result, without being unwieldy.
The COSORI Smart Kitchen Scale is designed to provide you with accurate information about the food you eat, revealing the exact amount of calories, protein, fat, carbs, and micronutrients like fiber based on weight. Naturally, it requires a companion app where you’ll access the database of food, scanning barcodes (or searching for food) as you go.
The scale arrives ready to use, with a QR code included for the VeSync app, I’d say installation, registration, and pairing all took less than a minute. The process to set up the scale was extremely easy and straightforward, with zero hiccups. So far, so good.
The COSORI Smart Kitchen Scale is so easy to use that there’s very little to explain when it comes to its functionality. The VeSync app, which syncs with Apple Health and Fitbit, includes a daily food-tracking platform. You enter your target calories and your desired breakdown of protein, carbs, and fat, the big three ‘macronutrients’ essential to balancing a diet, shedding weight, or building muscle.
Once your numbers are locked in, you log food just as you would in apps like MyFitnessPal. The most convenient way to do this is by scanning barcodes. The process is super snappy, but has an obvious flaw. The food data comes from Nutritionix, which boasts nearly one million food items. However, if your food isn’t listed, you’ll need to enter the details manually or pick a substitute.
I did a quick go-around of my fridge and was surprised to find eggs and Greek yogurt from one household UK supermarket didn’t show up. However, eggs from another large supermarket showed up just fine, as did some frozen berries from my freezer, and a body-building mainstay: Pringles potato crisps. Your mileage will definitely vary when it comes to what foods are supported, and might even depend on where you live and shop.
Manually entering the information isn’t the end of the world, but it’s certainly frustrating when the barcode scanner doesn’t throw up results.
Once you’ve successfully identified your food, you simply pop it on the scale and the COSORI will automatically weigh it and provide you with a breakdown of all the nutrients in the food. Once you’re happy with your amount, you simply tap ‘Save and Add More’, and you’re done. Congrats, you’ve successfully logged the exact weight and calorific breakdown of the food you’re about to eat.
In principle, you can use the COSORI Smart Kitchen Scale to track an entire day’s worth of eating, with calorie tracking accuracy down to the nearest gram.
So who would benefit? While the COSORI can be used to simply weigh something, this is a lot of money to spend on a scale that you use purely for weight. The COSORI really needs to be used to its full potential to justify the outlay. I’d say that gym-goers, bodybuilders, and anyone trying to build a food regime to complement their fitness plan would absolutely love the COSORI.
It would especially lend itself to people who like to try new foods, mix up recipes, and experiment. By contrast, if you meal prep seven days of boiled chicken, rice, and broccoli every Sunday afternoon, you might be better off with a regular scale.
The COSORI is particularly helpful for giving you insight into calories and ingredients which don’t have an obvious calorie makeup, like a spoonful of peanut butter. I distinctly recall one TikToker being mortified at just how many calories were to be found in a fairly meager serving of peanut butter, for instance. If you take an interest in your diet, calories, and portions, the COSORI could take you from a portion enthusiast to a culinary Rain Man.
While you could in theory use the COSORI alongside something like MyFitnessPal to track your food, you’d lose out on the snappy, automatic tracking and instant results that make the COSORI an attractive package. Therefore, anyone who’s already heavily invested in a different food or fitness app might not want to make the switch. The COSORI app even features recipes, including recipes you can use with the best air fryers (some of which, coincidentally, are also made by COSORI).
COSORI Smart Nutrition Scale: Price and availability
- $39.99 / £47.42
- No AUS availability
- Different brand name in the US
The COSORI Smart Kitchen Scale is available now in the UK from Amazon at the cost of £47.42. In the U.S, you can buy one under the brand name Etekcity, also from Amazon, at the cost of $39.99. Both COSORI and Etekcity are subsidiaries of the VeSync brand, and these are the same product. Unfortunately, the product is not currently available in Australia.
COSORI Smart Nutrition Scale: Specifications
| Price: | $39.99/£47.42 |
| Display | LCD |
| Weight limit | 2g-5000g in 1g increments |
| Batteries | AAA x 3 (included) |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth |
COSORI Smart Nutrition Scale: Scorecard
| Category | Comment | Score |
| Value | Pricy for a scale that weighs food, but a solid buy given the functionality. | 4/5 |
| Design | Very solid and sturdy design, sleek finish that will look good in any kitchen. LCD display looks excellent. | 5/5 |
| Features | Can weigh food and break down calories, protein, carbs, fats, and beyond. App comes with large food library and food tracking tools. | 4/5 |
| Performance | Easy setup and scale is highly accurate, let down where foods aren’t available to scan and manual entry required. | 3.5/5 |
| Total | A fantastic scale overall, as long as you’re willing to overlook missing foods. | 4/5 |
COSORI Smart Nutrition Scale: Should I buy?
Buy if it…
Don’t buy it if…
Also consider
The Renpho Kitchen Scales are an obvious alternative to the COSORI, and a lot cheaper. However, you won’t get that epic LCD display the nutritional information, and it’s a bit smaller too.
| Row 0 – Cell 0 | COSORI Smart Kitchen Scale | Renpho Food Scale |
| Price: | $39.99/£47.42 | $27.99/£17.99 |
| Display | LCD | LCD |
| Weight limit | 2g-5000g in 1g increments | 3g-5000g in 1g increments |
| Batteries | AAA x 3 (included) | AAA x 3 (included) |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth | Bluetooth |
How I tested
I paired the COSORI Smart Kitchen Scale with my iPhone, exploring all of the features of the app. I used the scale to weigh a number of household foods to determine accuracy, as well as the barcode scanner to test the food library function.
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