It is estimated that as much as eight percent of the children in America and two percent of the Adult population suffer from some form of food allergy or the other. In a person suffering from food allergy the immune system will over react to normally harmless food. This is because of the antibody popularly known as IgE or Immunoglobulin E. IgE is always found in people suffering from some sort of allergy.

Intolerance to food is very often confused with food allergy. In such a condition there is a reaction to food or some ingredient of food that cannot technically be termed an ‘allergy’. Food intolerance conditions never involve the immune system. One example would be that a person suffering from lactose