Perfect Keto Ketone Test Strips Kit for Testing Ketones on Low Carb Ketogenic Diet, Monitor Ketosis, Keto Diet Tracker, Urine Test Strips, 100 CT

I just started the keto diet 8 days ago and . . . down 8 pounds. I understand at this point it's water/inflammation but in 20 years I've not had that kind of success on ANY diet -- the weight always held steady after a couple days and then started the slow upward climb. So I decided I should get serious about this and figure out exactly where I was at and what I was doing (ha!) I ordered these strips because let's face it . . . no one WANTS to prick their finger for a blood test, and the breath tests are just too dang expensive. I've used these a couple days and they couldn't be easier. Just dip them in your pee, count to 40 and check the color. Works just like water tests for an aquarium if you've tried them. And even better -- MUCH more affordable than the other two options! Thanks!

My husband and I have been on a keto kick for the past year and it is truly becoming a way of life. We both feel better. Aside from losing weight, which is the main reason we started, we also feel like we have more energy and I can certainly say for myself that I no longer experience heartburn or other GI discomfort I used to deal with when I was not on a low carb/keto diet. Anway, these strips are fantastic! They came in the mail a few days ago on time and perfectly packaged. I have used other brands in the past and these work just as well. They are lower in price compared to others and that is absolutely wonderful. These strips are helpful to have while on a low carb diet as it does help signify if changes or adjustments need to be made in the diet. The customer service of this brand is top-notch! I truly appreciate it. I know that these strips along with my chocolate sea salt ketones will help me continue to be successful. I will be reviewing the ketone supplement separately after a few more days of use but I've been able to drop 2 pounds over the past 4 days with the help of the strips in conjunction with the supplement :).

So you pee on them and shae, easy enough. Wait 40 seconds, easily done. Match up the color on the end to the color chart. Well, that part isn't super easy for me to do. I'm not color blind, but I have a hard time with shades sometimes. And it says something like after 40 seconds to disregard if it changes color further. I had a hard time noticing if it was doing this or not. BUT, on the plus side, I know by the beginning shade roughly what level of ketosis I'm in. So it still basically does the job. I suppose if you want something easier to read you should invest in a blood testing kit/monitor. I'd buy them again though as the price is decent enough and they work to at least let me know that I'm in the ballpark.

Pro: I love the convenience of these and I find that you don't need 40 seconds to read (unless perhaps you're 'wishing to be in ketosis"). I don't use a cup. Just mid-stream I'm not OCD (heh he says) but when starting Keto (2.5# per week with Chronometer) I bought a meter so I could track accurately. That worked fine - and I am/was also pre-diabetic. So I was pricking and measuring both ketones and glucose daily. I didn't use the meter app much - but tracked hard until I got into the 1-2 range. But then when I pretty much stayed there - ? wOw, Ok, I'm not a wimp but still the process, cost ($1.20 for both strips per day), to find that (1) My Ketosis was solid close to 1.5, and Glucose was doing well and trending out of pre-diabetes (still anxious to see my A1C), So I Was still loving the meter - but - pondering the strips - and Keto Mojo changed their meter design - I started looking. Checked around. And found these. PRO: Quick and easy to use - fast enough unless perhaps you're at the low end of the scale. CON: Wish the color chart more closely matched the strips. It's not a huge issue - but I've never found an indicator strip (including aquarium) that closely matched. Here it's mostly hue but still. So you won't know if you're 1.4 or 1.7 but more that you're say > 1 and < 2. Which unless you're dialing in a meal is just fine. Summary: If you want to know exactly spot check - then get the meter. it'll also help if you need glucose at that time. If you want to know if you're doing well in Ketosis - then these are far less expensive and very adequate for tracking your continued success on Ketosis.

I bought these before I started keto for the first time. I tested negative before I started. I did one day of keto and in the morning on day 2, I did this test out of curiosity and I was a little below moderate keto. ALREADY? How is that possible?! I retested, and the next test had me trace amounts. A third one had me mild. Hmmm. Now I have been keto for almost a month and I test in the furtherest category. Either my body just loves fat (you are what you eat? if the shoe fits) and my body can immediately convert to keto, or these strips are incredibly sensitive, or these strips are just wrong and calibrated up, I'm not sure. My gf tried them and she has been following keto principles too, but not really that specific and crazy, and she still tested moderate. We follow the directions and time it for 40 seconds, and still this is the outcome. We also noticed that the tips of the test strips are not white like when they came, but a little pink. That happened almost instantly. We have been very careful to take a strip out and immediately and tightly close the bottle. So I am not sure why this is happening? CONCLUSION: Use this to gauge whether you are in ketosis, and you can probably gauge just barely or really in it. But do not expect anything accurate or consistent, just that there are some ketones or there are no ketones--that is really all. I guess I had a little unrealistic expectations.

Okay, I meant to write this review months ago, but I put it off and forgot about it. By the way, I enclosed a few pictures to make my point. So take a look at them to see what I'm talking about. First, I really, really wanted these test strips to be good! The name brand, Ketostix, are very expensive, like 4 times the price, since the 50 strip retail pack costs about double that of the "Perfect Keto Strips", containing half the amount. The first batch was dubiously accurate, but serviceable, with some "fixing" on my part. But I was able to at least use them. I will explain the "fixing" in a minute. I ordered another one for the purposes of a low price backup about a month later based on the incredible discounted price, under the "You get what you paid for" mantra. I would have been fine if they were like the first, since the saving are quite substantial. However, that second batch was, quite simply, worthless. I probably should have returned them, but for $7.99, I couldn't honestly be bothered going through the hassle of the Amazon return procedures, not to mention boxing it up and mailing it back, even with the return postage paid by Amazon. The problem with the second batch is that they were a light shade of purple almost from the second I received them. I had actually lent the first batch to a friend, which is why I had opened the second one. If you look at the first picture I uploaded, you will see a shot of a bunch of the dry, never used purple "Perfect Ketone Testing Strips" above the name brand Ketostix. Notice that the color of the store bought one is neutral, indicating no ketones, of course, since it has not been passed through a stream of urine. The other ones look like they have been tested and all positive, even though, like the Ketostix strip, they were not used. They don't change color at all from that purple, by the way, or I might have been willing to overlook the dry color, though probably not. Because even if they seemed to work, can I really trust the accuracy of a stick that starts out showing positive for ketones even while dry? Okay, so that's the scoop on the second, defective batch. For the first batch, I mentioned above that I had to sort of apply a little fix. I want to call your attention to pictures 2 and 3 of the ones I uploaded. The smaller bottle, which is the Ketostix while the larger one is the Perfect Ketone Test Strips. Take a look at the color chart on the larger bottle. Notice that the colors are just off enough to render reading them almost impossible for all but the deepest levels of ketosis. I mean, of course, deep purple is deep purple, right? No ambiguity there. The caveat here is that MANY people like me don't bother trying to get deep into ketosis to turn it so dark purple that you don't even really need the chart. When I am dieting, I always hover around "trace" and "small" for the most part. Unless I am being more aggressive in that phase of my diet. Now looking at those pics, notice that the colors on the one I am reviewing are darker and richer than the Ketostix. This may look great on the package, and maybe even is a good selling point, BUT it is a terrible chart to measure ketones, particularly at a lower level of ketosis. When I hold a currently in-use (read: peed on) stick against the chart that came with these, it is maddeningly impossible to tell where I'm at. Because the colors for "Negative," "Trace," and even small are so pink. Yes even the "Negative" is a little pink! Look at the side-by-side comparison. Note that the second comparison picture, the vertical one, is much more illustrative of what I'm talking about. Even in ketosis, my stick looks like it is some sort of combination of all three colors. Its maddening. When I line up the strip (either the Ketostix or the "good" batch I first ordered in May) with the chart on the Ketostix, it is easy and unequivocal what state of ketosis I am in. The difference is startling actually. Anyway, I would be wary of this brand, and if you really want to save the money, simply make sure you have an old, possibly even empty, bottle of ketostix and use that to measure your ketosis even when using Perfect Ketone Test Strips. Unless you get a batch like my second one, which was useless. Then either grin and bear it, or send it back. As I said, assuming you get a good batch, the sticks are serviceable, but someone at the company that makes these really needs to fix the color chart on the bottle so its more like Ketostix! Oh, and one more thing: If you look at the last picture, the expiration date on the bottle is 2021, which means that even if I opened them just now, and not the 8 months ago I actually did, they should still be good.

So I want to start out by saying that I’ve been on keto for exactly 15 days today and I’ve never felt the way I feel now in a very long time.. I am also on a very strict keto diet which by the way I no longer say diet but lifestyle because I don’t believe I’ll ever go back to my old habits, well I started out with my sisters ketone urine strips she gets prescribed because she’s a type one diabetic and within a couple days wanted to be accurate with my readings and got the keto mojo meter which works great for me and is always accurate I believe, and so did my sisters strips but I saw the controversy between these urine strips (perfect keto) and kiss my keto urine strips and was intrigued and really wanted to know if maybe they do show a different result and we’ll I bought both and used both and dipped in the same cup of urine at the same time and then let kiss my keto cure for 15 seconds as directed and perfect keto for 40 seconds as directed and low and behold.. they were the exact same reading also did my ketone and glucose with keto mojo and calculated my GKI.. so safe to say all 3 work marvelous.. at least for me if it’s not working maybe try checking out what you’re eating maybe something is throwing it off without you realizing it took me a couple days figuring out that eating 3 small grape tomorrow’s throws me off not kicks me off my Ketosis but throws me off and so I’ve stopped eating tomatoes and will occasionally eat a few when I break my fast which usually happens around 1-2pm and I IF usually 24:0 or 20:4, 16:8 works for me as well but I don’t really feel hungry.. in 15 days I’ve lost 18.2 pounds and 7 inches all around which for me is great.. I’ve done keto before and it worked but never was serious about it this time around I am so serious because I want to live to see my son grow up and do everything you live to watch your children do.. hope this helps someone!

These are the only test strips I will ever use when I'm doing a Keto diet. These are the only Keto test strips that leave results that I feel 100% confident in. I will actually go without testing if I run out until I buy a new pack. I believe that tracking and testing when losing weight, even if you only look at these test strips, is critical to determine how your body is responding and what state it is in. If you get test strips that give you the wrong results, you may proceed in the wrong direction and find you're not getting the results you were looking for. Losing weight can be difficult enough. That is why I will only ever stick to these test strips during Keto. I actually used these when I did a weight loss challenge. By using these strips, I was able to determine exactly how my body was reacting to the diet and whether or not I was in Keto. By using these as a baseline, I lost 21 total inches and 14 lbs and won first place. I will never use different strips during Keto.