Cheap BAC meter correlates much better w/ BHB vs. my Ketonix 2015

#1

22 consecutive days of fasting data – all three checked shortly after getting up each morning before eating or drinking anything.

I used Precision Ultra to read blood ketones (BHB). I also used the cheap $12 Greenwon BAC meter as well as the Ketonix 2015 breath meter.

$12 Greenwon BAC Meter
[When testing with this meter, I do it three times and take the highest reading. I exhale half way, then put mouth on device and blow out as fast as I can, attempting to get tail end of breath into meter, all within 5 seconds – if I go over 5 seconds, the meter gives me a goose egg and I have to scratch that test and start over. BAC results in chart are in mg/100ml. To convert to BAC% divide by 1000. E.g. 47 mg/100ml = 0.047]

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Ketonix 2015:

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(Jason S) #2

wow! so it looks like Ketonix is not as accurate at the simple cheap BAC device. Am I reading this correctly?

#3

I have 100 more BHB blood ketone test strips – got them for $1.08 a piece off ebay in bulk.

I’ll be doing this for 100 more days. So I’ll have 4 months of data in a nice graph, for those interested. :slight_smile:

At that point I probably will sell my Ketonix if it continues to perform as is. And predominantly test with BAC meter each day… doing spot checks here and there with BHB test strips.

#4

Yeah the cheap meter is working better for me. It could perhaps be my particular ketonix meter? I am not sure.

(Jason S) #5

where did you get the BAC meter?

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I got the meter from Amazon.com for $13.30 delivered :

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#7

I learned about the use of BAC meter in place of Ketonix for testing breath ketones from the following ketogenic forums thread a few months ago:

(57 yo female started keto Jul '19) #8

Bumping an old topic, because I am very much interested. Do you still have the data?