Ketone Test Strips

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 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!

They work like any other test strip. I hold it in my hand and pee directly on it and hit my stopwatch feature on my phone and wait 40 seconds to read it. Much easier method than collecting urine in a cup and swirling the teststrip in it. **The 2 photos where taken within about 3-5 seconds of each other. Photo 1 was at 39 seconds, photo 2 was taken at about 43 second. ** PROS: extra long strips in comparison to the others I've used. Only takes a drop of urine. Once urine makes contact with strip it immediately starts registering ketone in urine. Offers a visual color gage on outside of bottle. Detailed instructions are included inside box with bottle of strips. CONS: strips are a little narrow, thin and flimsy to hold. Tester spot on strip is smaller and not as adhered as it was on others I've tried and it will start to peel off if not carefully and quickly placed in urine stream while urinating. Color guide is to close in shades from trace to small to moderate to get a true accurate reading, it's more of a general in this range kinda color guide for amounts of ketones expelled in urine. Also, don't like that they keep getting darker immediately after the 40 sec are up so getting a true/accurate reading again is just general range idea and MUST NOT BE READ AFTER THE 40 SECONDS ARE UP or you get a false reading. Strips don't determine if you are IN ketosis it only shows you if your body is producing and expeling excess ketones in your urine thus helping you stay on track towards the ketogenic goals. The best and most accurate way to tell if you are in ketosis is with a blood test monitor using a drop of blood on special ketone strip. This will tell you if you've reached ketosis, not a urine strip test. FINAL WORDS: These strips are okay. Not sure I'd repurchase but I will finish using them up. They do work good enough for monitoring my ketone productions whether its after I have a carb cycling day, a hard fast, or just my normal daily keto diet days.

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 :).

The package states that these will last 6 months. I bought them in March and they worked perfectly. (Only used them about three weeks) I stopped Keto in April and May and started again in June (3 mos since purchase) So these strips had not been opened in 2 months. I can tell the strip has some particles trying to read....it still changes colors...but the colors are too faint to read. I know I'm in Ketosis based on other signs...I'm guessing I'm at the larger level or just under. Unfortunately I have to throw these away and order a different brand. When they were new they were very easy to use and the colors seemed to match pretty well. Some levels were trickier than others to figure out but the top two levels were easy peasy! I'd like to suggest to the company to bundle these in increments of 25 and bag them before placing in the bottle. Then the customer can remove the wrap of one month at a time and the other 75 could remain protected from the air for a longer period of time. *I kept these in a cool dark place and only grabbed one strip out at a time quickly replacing the lid. So this wasn't a storage issue.

Low carb diet for 3 months - 250 lbs to 217 lbs. - feel great. Consume less than 40 grams carbs a day. Strips indicated no ketones in urine. Researched & found out if you've been in ketosis for a bit, your body adapts & kidneys stop putting out ketones. Hence the negative result on the test strip. Blood test is probably sure fire way but too invasive since I'm losing weight and pretty much know I'm in ketosis already. Product seems ok but may only work if you're still in the beginning stages of ketosis because, at first, your kidneys can't distinguish between keytones & uric acid, so it flushes them both through urine. Your body eventually adapts and stops flushing keytones - hence the negative result on the test strip. If you've been doing low carb for more than a few weeks, these test strips may not be of any help.

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.

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.

Works as it should

Poor readings, unreliable. I'm starting to be able to sense what level of ketosis I'm in. 2 other brands of keto test strips reflect where I feel I'm at and match each other on results. This brand is way out every time.

Works as effectively as per directions. Excellent service with speedy delivery.

24 hours in now. Test strips just go grey, no colour change.

The product does what it says it will. The stripes work instantly and the package has an easy to read measurement system on it.