Food&DrinkScan Programme

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Our most comprehensive programme also provides all the nutritional care, expert help and guidance, that you may need.

The YorkTest Food&DrinkScan Programme is the most complete service we offer. It tests and analyses over 158 different food and drink ingredients for IgG antibody reactions and devises a diet programme that is individual to you.

Within just 10 days, after posting your simple pin-prick home blood test kit back to our York laboratories, we will deliver clear colour-coded results detailing all the food and drink ingredients tested. Our Food&DrinkScan Programme also includes two telephone consultations with a BANT* registered Nutritional Therapist to help create your new diet plan.

We will give you friendly care and support plus a comprehensive guidebook and your personal 12 week food diary which also features information on the principles of treating food and drink intolerances by eliminating certain ingredients from your diet.

To see a list of the foods and drinks that we test for, please click here.

To see a set of example results for this test please click here.

Important Information

Do NOT take this test if you are:

• Suffering from a blood borne disease such as Hepatitis or HIV
• Under 18 years old
• Pregnant or breastfeeding
• Taking steroids or immunosuppressants

N.B. Raised levels of food-specific IgG antibodies within your blood indicate that an IgG antibody reaction to a particular food or foods has occurred. If you have already taken the decision to eliminate a particular food or foods from your diet they may not show up as a reaction on your results. If you know of foods that trigger your symptoms then do not start eating them; we cannot encourage you to eat a food or foods which you already know are a problem to you.

*British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy

Please note: Food&DrinkScan does not provide information about coeliac disease, enzyme deficiencies such as lactose and alcohol intolerance, IgE-mediated allergies, histamine sensitivity or other chemical sensitivities such as reactions to sulphites, tannins or tyramine. The Food&DrinkScan programme is only recommended for people who have food and drink intolerance symptoms.

Celebrity Testimonial

Olympian and world marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe told us that she started to suffer from symptoms that were so unbearable it was affecting her training.

She was recommended to use the FoodScan programme from YorkTest Laboratories by friends and fellow athletes.

Her test came back informing her she had IgG antibody reactions to egg, chicken, wheat, tomatoes and dairy.
 
After some time on her new diet Paula returned to YorkTest for a retest of her FoodScan. Her results came back as a surprise as she learned that she was reacting to blackcurrant, yeast, soya bean, gluten and chilli pepper. Paula was advised on how to best eliminate these foods from her diet without taking away their key health benefits.
 
For more information on the test that Paula took please click here

I was shocked that I could be reacting to these foods as they are not the usual suspects, it made sense as I was drinking blackcurrant juice nearly every day, yeast and gluten was in virtually every meal and I included peppers in my food several times a week.

Paula Radcliffe