About Food Detective Food Intolerance Testing Kit

A Little Bit About Food Intolerance & Food Allergies

Food Intolerances are unpleasant reactions to foods. In some people these reactions can cause distressing symptoms and ill-health.

Food Allergy is NOT the same as food intolerance!

A classical food allergy (such as peanut or shellfish allergy) is usually characterised byan immediate and often severe reaction of the immune system to exposure to a specific food.

The symptoms of food allergy include sneezing, rashes, skin irritation, swelling, runny nose, fatigue, diarrhoea and vomiting. Normally symptoms occur within a few minutes of eating or coming in to contact with the offending food, although they can be delayed by up to two hours.

Food allergy is quite rare with only about 2.5% of the population being diagnosed with the condition. The most common instances of food allergy are to peanuts, tree nuts (almonds and brazils), eggs, milk, fish and shellfish.

Although not life threatening food intolerance should never be underestimated as its impact on sufferers can be significant, severely impacting on their ability to live normal healthy lives.

The incidence of food intolerance is extremely wide and it is estimated that 45% of the population could be affected.

• Many people with food intolerance experience more than one symptom. Symptoms can often be vague and the root cause of the problem, food, is not always correctly diagnosed. Sufferers often complain of seeming to be in a ‘fog’, feeling bloated and being tired all the time.
• Essentially food intolerance is your body’s abnormal reaction to certain foods which can manifest itself in a number of ways.
• Some people will have one symptom such as a severe headache whilst others will be unfortunate to experience irritable bowel syndrome, migraine and skin or respiratory conditions.
• Realising that your food is a catalyst for particular symptoms is not easy when, unlike the immediate reactive symptoms of food allergy, food intolerance symptoms often appear hours or even days later.
• In fact many food intolerance sufferers have commented post diagnosis and after having removed their problem foods that they realise they had been experiencing minor symptoms as a result of intolerance for theirentire lives.

Symptoms of Food Intolerance

If you have any of the following symptoms you could be suffering from food intolerance. Food intolerance sufferers can also experience more than one symptom at the same time.

How The Food Detective Intolerance Self Testing Kit Works

• You don’t have to go to the doctor or wait weeks to receive results from a testing laboratory.
• Using Food Detective couldn’t be easier with informative step by step instructions to guide you through the simple process.
• The testing tray that shows you if you have a food intolerance has areas spotted with food protein extracts.
• A small blood sample is taken from a finger-prick and is then diluted and added to the tray.
• In subsequent steps the use of detector and developer solutions identify the presence of food antibodies through the appearance of one or more blue spots on the tray.
• Reference to the food layout plan enclosed within the instructions allows you to identify any foods to which you may have an intolerance.
• Food Detective™ gives you your results in just 40 minutes.

Simple, safe, accurate and fast, Food Detective™ is the world’s first self test for food intolerance.

What Does the Food Detective Test For?

• Cereals
  Corn, Durum Wheat, Gluten, Oats, Rice, Rye, Wheat.

• Nuts & Beans
  Almond, Brazil Nut, Cashew, Cocoa Bean, Peanut, Legume Mix (pea, lentil, haricot),
  Soya Bean, Walnut.

• Meats
  Beef, Chicken, Lamb, Pork.

• Fish
  Freshwater Fish Mix (salmon, trout), Shellfish Mix (shrimp, prawn, crab, lobster, mussel),
  Tuna, White Fish Mix (haddock, cod, plaice)

• Vegetables
  Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrot, Celery, Cucumber, Leek, Peppers (red, green, yellow), Potato.

• Fruits
  Apple, Blackcurrant, Grapefruit, Melon Mix (cantaloupe, water melon), Olive, Orange & Lemon,
  Strawberry, Tomato

• Other
  Egg (whole), Cows Milk, Garlic, Ginger, Mushroom, Tea, Yeast.

Once a trigger food has been identified you can simply change your diet and relieve the unpleasant symptoms that you may have been suffering for years