Food intolerance is your body’s abnormal reaction to the ingestion of certain foods or dietary components. There may be an obvious connection between eating a specific food and your reaction. However, you may not realise the relationship between the food and the symptoms from the reaction because these often appear hours or even days later.

Food intolerance is not life-threatening. However, its impact on sufferers can be significant, sometimes affecting their ability to live normal healthy lives.

People commonly refer to their food intolerance as a food allergy and it is quite common to know people with a wheat or dairy “food allergy”. However, there are a number of other common foods that people are intolerant to and this occurrence is becoming more and more noticeable in Australia.