Food Testing in Lancaster, PA, helps you to figure out exactly which foods are causing inflammation in your body. Food elimination diets are time-consuming and confusing because food reactions can be delayed by several days. Moreover, we always eat foods in combination with one another, never one at a time. Food testing provides definitive results where you know for sure which foods are the obstacles to your body healing properly. In addition, you also get to see visually which foods are causing more inflammation in your body, compared to the other foods you are eating. You will also find out which foods should not be combined with other foods so that you can better plan your meals.
Food Testing also checks your Candida / yeast levels in your body, which if high, can also be causing inflammation in your body. The symptoms can be very similar to those caused by food sensitivities.
Food Testing does not require a blood draw, only a finger-prick that you can do in the comfort of your own home. Blood is collected on a card, that you mail directly to the lab company along with your payment.
There are 2 options available to test: 94 most common foods, or 189 foods that includes less common foods. Most choose to test the 94 most common foods:
Dairy
- Casein
- Cheddar cheese
- Cottage cheese
- Cow’s milk
- Goat’s milk
- Mozzarella cheese
- Whey
Meats
- Beef
- Buffalo
- Chicken
- Egg white
- Egg yolk
- Lamb
- Pork
- Turkey
Fish
- Cod
- Halibut
- Salmon
- Sardine
- Sole
- Tilapia
- Trout
- Tuna
Shellfish
- Clam
- Crab
- Lobster
- Oyster
- Shrimp
Vegetables
- Asparagus
- Beet
- Black olive
- Broccoli
- Cabbage
- Carrot
- Cauliflower
- Celery
- Cucumber
- Garlic
- Green bean
- Green pepper
- Kidney bean
- Lentil
- Lettuce
- Lima bean
- Onion
- Pea
- Potato, white
- Pumpkin
- Soy
- Spinach
- Tomato
Grains
- Barley
- Buckwheat
- Corn
- Gliadin
- Gluten
- Hemp
- Oat
- Quinoa
- Rice
- Teff
- Wheat
Fruits
- Apple
- Apricot
- Avocado
- Banana
- Blueberry
- Cranberry
- Grapefruit
- Lemon
- Orange
- Papaya
- Peach
- Pear
- Pineapple
- Plum
- Raspberry
- Red grape
- Strawberry
- Watermelon
Nuts
- Almond
- Peanut
- Pecan
- Pumpkin seed
- Sesame seed
- Sunflower seed
- Walnut
Miscellaneous
- Baker’s yeast
- Brewer’s yeast
- Cane sugar
- Coffee
- Honey
- Mushroom
- Xanthan gum
Here are the less common 95 foods that could be tested with the 189 food option:
Meat & Dairy
Grains
- Amaranth
- Brown rice
- Flaxseed
- Millet
- Psyllium seed
- Safflower seed
- Sorghum
- Wild rice
Fruits
- Blackberry
- Boysenberry
- Cantaloupe
- Cherry
- Currants
- Fig
- Kiwi
- Mango
- Pomegranate
- Rhubarb
- White grape
Nuts
- Brazil nut
- Cashew
- Chia seed
- Coconut
- Hazelnut
- Macadamia
- Pine nut
- Pistachio
Vegetables
- Alfalfa
- Artichoke
- Bamboo shoot
- Bean sprout
- Black bean
- Bok choy
- Brussels sprout
- Butternut squash
- Chili pepper
- Eggplant
- Endive
- Garbanzo bean
- Green olive
- Jalapeño
- Kale
- Kelp
- Kohlrabi
- Mung bean
- Navy bean
- Okra
- Pinto bean
- Radish
- Rutabaga
- Sweet potato
- Water chestnut
- Watercress
- Yam
- Yellow squash
- Zucchini
Spices
- Allspice
- Basil
- Black pepper
- Cilantro
- Cinnamon
- Cloves
- Coriander
- Cumin
- Dill
- Ginger
- Horseradish
- Mustard
- Nutmeg
- Oregano
- Parsley
- Peppermint
- Poppy seed
- Rosemary
- Sage
- Spearmint
- Tarragon
- Thyme
- Turmeric
- Vanilla
Miscellaneous
- Arrowroot
- Carob
- Cocoa
- Corn sugar
- Cornstarch
- Hops
- Maple sugar
- Tapioca
- Tea
It takes on average 3 weeks to get the results for food testing in Lancaster, PA. Fees for the food testing can be found here (scroll closer to the bottom of the Fees page)