Customer Reviews
buy one, you'll like it 
2008-08-08
This book covers 95% of the food I eat, has all the numbers regardless if you're counting fat/carbs/fiber, one book does it all. This is my third copy, as it is updated frequently to incorperate new items....good value
Nutrition Information 2008-06-25
The Complete Book of Food Counts is exactly what I was looking for. Yes, it has more info than I really need, but has all that I wanted. Excellant choice for anyone who needs to keep up with carb, cholesterol, sodium, and etc. counts. Glad I got it. Delivery time was incredibly fast! Thanks, Deb Evans
complete source of information 2008-06-17
this book has everything you need to know about food and all grocery products. Can't wait until the 8th edition come out in december 2008.
Food Counts Review 
2008-06-09
The book is exactly as it represents itself. It provides a great deal of information about many different foods so that one may make appropriate food choices according to his/her health needs.
mostly useless and far from complete 
2008-06-05
This book's data on fat and carbohydrates is insufficent for modern diets. It does has a lot of other useful data, some useless data, and is missing a lot of expected products.
The biggest problem is the way fat is listed. Saturated fat, unsaturated fat, and trans fat are all lumped into a single number for total fat. This makes the book inadequate for Atkins or South Beach dieters. You can't tell good fats from bad.
The listings show total carbohydrates, and dietary fiber, but they don't show net carbs, or sugar alcohols. This is important for dieters and diabetics since many of our specialty foods are sweetened with these substitutes. Of course, the book generally omits diet foods, so this may not matter.
There is no information about vitamins or minerals.
It does contain a lot of useful information about basic ingredients that are often sold without nutritional labels (for example, fresh meat and vegetables). There's also a lot of information about foods served at chain restaurants, which is useful for deciding to where to go.
The bulk of the data seems to have been copied from prepared food product labels. This isn't very useful, since I can usually just look at the package, though it is sometimes convenient. It's even less useful for the obsolete products.
A lot of obvious expected products are missing. I can't find any mention of diet soft drinks, diet meal bars, diet shakes, low-carb foods, or liquor. Beer and wine are mentioned, but in poor detail. Beer has only two entries: "regular" and "light". If they can devote 4 pages to different brands of fully-sugared soft drinks, they could at least tell us the differences between a stout and an india pale ale. Wine is a little better. They list desert, red, rose, and white. However, I find it difficult to believe a sweet white zinfandel has the same numbers as a dry chardonnay.
This book wasn't a complete waste of money, but I still want something better.
Food Counts 2008-05-21
Featuring thousands of new listings—and thousands more choices—than ever before, this completely revised seventh edition of The Complete Book of Food Counts is the most up-to-date reference you can buy. Featuring all-new information on a wide variety of new products, here are essential counts for generic and brand-name foods PLUS the latest gourmet and health foods, including hundreds of ethnic foods. From fast-food salads to gourmet pizza, from Mexican to Japanese to Indian cuisines, this authoritative reference gives you all the nutritional information you need, whether you’re walking the supermarket aisles or checking out your local natural food and gourmet shops!
The Complete Book of Food Counts 2008-02-24
A great book for all the weight watchers in society. An informative, comprehensive, "food dictonary" with the needed data to make healthier choices and to know what you are consuming in the way of sodium, fiber, fat, protein, & carbs. Best utilized before eating, it helps with making a food selection that will work for you.
Complete isn't exactly accurate 2008-02-20
This book is as good as but no better than the other 3 food count books I own by various authors. I bought this book because it said it was complete but obviously I do not understand what the author means by complete. I wanted to know potassium counts in various foods and while this book is adequate for calories, carbohydrates, protein, cholesterol, sodium, fat and fiber, there is absolutely no data for potassium. Back to the food labels...
lists protein 2007-09-23
My daughter is on a low protein diet due to a genetic disease. This book is quite helpful in that its the one source I need, whether eating out or cooking at home. Yes its large for a paperback. But every other book I've bought that is smaller, either doesn't list protein or doesn't list eating out or costs an arm and a leg or is even larger.
If I had my computer on all the time, then there are lots of sites I can go to that list protein by the amino acid (which is what I really need).
Oh, and you get used to the arrangement of the book. Its actually easier than a few others that I have..
Default calory/nutiritional counting tool 2007-09-22
I am a Persoanl Fitness Trainer with 20 years of experience and certifications from numerous nationally recognized fitness organizations. This nutritional counting book is the one fitness and health professionals depend upon. This is prety much default tool for the pros. Everywhere I go, evrybody uses this book. I do not even look at other somilar books any more.
