Calorie King
You won't find a better source for nutrition facts.
BACKGROUND
One of the major challenges in eating healthy is knowing your true caloric intake. In the Internet age there's plenty of information at your disposal. The most comprehensive source for tracking your food intake just may be Calorie King. At Calorie King there is a treasure trove of nutritional information. Being organized can be the difference between success and failure. And, there's no shortage of health organizational tools at Calorie King.
PRO
- The Calorie King website is very comprehensive. You get a lot of information for free.
- Membership and software are very reasonably priced
- Free and easy access to a wealth of nutrition information
- Recipe of the day
CON
- None to speak of at this time
FOOD and RECIPES
If ever there were a dietary site that had a comprehensive food component, it's Calorie King. They profess to have the largest food database one the Web, complete with the invaluable nutritional information. Extremely interactive, there's a tool called "Create a Meal" where you can graphically drag and drop foods on a plate and the total calorie count is estimated. It's still in production, so there are only a few options at the time of this writing.
Here are just a few of the recipes that are available on their website:
- Low-Fat Creamy Chicken and Veggies
- Vegetarian Lasagna
- Grilled Hawaiian Beef Kebobs
- Cajun Spiced Sweet Potato Wedges
EXERCISE
The Calorie King website has what they call the Active Living Center where there are a collection of fitness articles. You can also get their Nutrition and Exercise Manager software to keep track of your activity and results.
EXPENSE
There are various products you can pay for at Calorie King:
- A general membership to the website, which includes a diet, access to their online community, and many other tools, is only $55 for a year.
- The Calorie King Nutrition and Exercise Manager, a diary tool that comes with "America's largest food database" is $49.
- The CalorieKing Recipe Book is $20.
- A book titled, The CalorieKing Calorie, Fat and Carbohydrate Counter is $8.
CONCLUSION
We would be hard pressed to find another web-based diet resource that is as reasonably priced and effective in conveying nutritional knowledge as Calorie King.
Common misspellings
Calore king, Calorie Kings, Cal King
suzy: dietking is not bad for $50 a year. So many other online websites charge monthly for the same thing.
MJ: Love it! For only $50 per year I can learn how to eat the right foods while tracking my progress with no pressure from some counselor, and on my own schedule. I have combined CK with my regular Curves workout and am finally seeing measurable (as in my clothes are fitting looser) results. If you are a motivated self-starter, CK will work for you.
Don: I've been using CalorieKing now for 60 days and I've lost almost 35 pounds. What I love about it, is that its membership prices are cheap and has a great community to go with it.
Jeff: I found SparkPeople.com to be comparible... for FREE.
