FoodScan Junior

• Convenient home testing kit – no need to visit our laboratory
• Expert testing and analysis of IgG antibody reactions to 113 foods from our qualified laboratory scientists
• Two 30-minute telephone consultations with one of our qualified Nutritional Therapists
• Letter for your childcare provider or school, explaining your child’s dietary requirements
• No reaction, no cost. If no reactions are identified, YorkTest will refund you* 

The FoodScan Junior will identify your child’s trigger foods through IgG testing. There are four different types of food-specific IgG antibodies. Unlike a high percentage of our competitors, we test the levels of all of these antibodies. You can find more on this here.

This programme is also jam-packed with post-test support, including: two 30-minute telephone consultations with a nutritional therapist (you can meet them all here), continued guidance from our Customer Care team and a letter for your childcare provider or school.

Please note that this test will NOT pick up on the following:

• Chemical sensitivities
• Histamine sensitivity
• Coeliac disease
• Food allergies (IgE antibodies)
• Enzyme deficiencies, such as lactose intolerance
• Ingredients that are not in your diet

The kit box

The YorkTest FoodScan Junior kit contains all you need to take a small blood sample (2-3 drops) in the comfort of your own home. Simply return your child’s sample in the pre-paid envelope** provided to our York laboratories and we’ll do the rest. Your child’s confidential results and additional support material will be posted to you within 10 days.

Your child’s results

Your child’s results will be presented in a colour-coded report detailing the degree of intolerance – green meaning no reaction, amber for borderline and red showing a reaction. This means that raised levels of food-specific IgG antibodies have been detected in your child’s blood.

If you have already taken the decision to eliminate particular foods from your child’s diet, they may not show up as a reaction on their results. If you know of any foods that cause your child to feel unwell, do not allow them to start eating them; we don’t encourage your child to eat any foods which you already know are a problem to them.

Nutritional consultations

The main purpose of FoodScan Junior is to detect your child’s trigger foods and to help them balance their diet with nutritious alternatives. It’s important to us that your child discovers and explores other alternatives whilst safely removing problematic ingredients without depriving your child of essential nutrients. That’s why we offer nutritional consultations for you and your child after you’ve received their results.

We are the only food intolerance company† to provide nutritional aftercare from qualified nutritional therapists. As part of the programme, you’ll receive two 30-minute telephone consultations. During this time, you’ll be able to discuss your child’s results and ask any questions you may have to ensure you feel confident with your child’s new diet.

We pride ourselves on our accuracy. In fact, it’s one of our key values in our quality charter. We have a >98% reproducibility rate, which means that, on average, two separate tests carried out at the same time with the same person’s sample will correlate with each other >98% of the time.

Our laboratory processes and science are overseen by expert Biochemist, Dr Gill Hart who joined us in 2005. She has over 30 years’ experience in the development and validation of diagnostic tests and steers the company’s research opportunities and product development, too! You can find more on why you should trust and choose YorkTest here.

We’re proud of the programmes we’ve expertly developed throughout the years. We understand that putting your child’s health into our hands is a pretty big deal, so here’s some reasons why you should:

• Food Intolerance Testing Company of the Year 2018
• Chosen by 50% of the UK food intolerance testing market
• The only food intolerance testing company to include up to two consultations with a qualified nutritional therapist as part of our aftercare
• We have programmes, which cater for specific diets, common health conditions and different age groups. These include our IBS diet programme, Modern Living programme and award winning FoodScan Junior test
• 4 out of 5 customers saw improvements in their health after following a YorkTest programme, according to our customer survey results 2017
• We have start-to-end support which doesn’t stop as soon as you pay for your programme. Our processes are all in-house – from dispatching your kit, to testing your blood sample, fully safeguarding your confidentiality
• We’re a global brand trading in 49 countries and counting

For even more reasons why you should choose YorkTest, please check out our Why YorkTest? page