Food hypersensitivity

What is food hypersensitivity?

• When food makes people hyper

• When there is an adverse reaction to food

• Both

Which food causes hypersensitivity?

• All

• None

• Only eight main food groups

What is food allergy?

• When the immune system is involved

• When the immune system is not involved

• When the person surely dies

What is food intolerance?

• A reaction to food where the immune system is involved

• A non-allergic type of hypersensitivity

• None of these

What causes food allergies?

• Genetics

• The environment

• Gene-environment interaction

People living in sunny places are deficient in Vitamin D and get no food allergies.

• True

• False

Coeliac disease is considered as:

• Food allergy

• Food intolerance

• None of these

What happens during a food allergy?

• Antibodies are released and cells are involved

• There is an auto-immune reaction

• There aren't the right enzymes to break down food

What happens during food intolerance?

• Enzymes do not break the food properly

• There isn't the right gut microbiome

• Antibodies are released

Food aversion is

• the same as food allergy

• the same as food hypersensitivity

• a psychological reaction as a result of dislike to food