Before looking at intolerances, I want to clarify the difference between a food allergy and an intolerance. The external reaction can be the same. However, if you have an allergy, then every time you are exposed to the allergen, you will create antibodies in reaction to that exposure.
If you have an intolerance, you do not create antibodies. This means that a blood test will not pick up an intolerance, because it does not see antibody response. A second issue is that the intolerance response can range from gastric distress, which makes sense to us, but it can also exhibit as skin breaking out, brain fog, respiratory distress, and so on.
If you tested that you need to pay attention to food intolerances, test first for the usual offenders: citrus, eggs, peanuts, shellfish, cow dairy, tree nuts, wheat, soy, and fish. If one of them tests positive, then you may need to break it down further. Cow dairy has three typical issues: lactose, whey and casein. You can react to one, two or all three of those. If it is lactose, you can take lactase tabs and eat cow dairy. However, if you react to whey or casein, lactase tabs will not help at all. With tree nuts, you will want to go through the entire list of tree nuts.
If you tested yes to having food intolerance but none of those were yes, then test for linseed, sesame seed, peach, banana, avocado, kiwi fruit, passion fruit, celery, garlic, mustard seed, aniseed and chamomile. If none of these are yes, then you may want to go get a skin test. And, of course, you are tapping for your emotional reaction to realizing that you have an intolerance to deal with!
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