Home Allergy Tests

Sliced Bread

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Health & Fitness

4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Can home tests tell you if you have an allergy or a food intolerance?

We're back with a new batch of investigations and kicking off this series is one of our most popular requests: home allergy tests. The companies that make them claim they can help you work out if you have an allergy or intolerance to certain foods. The idea is the information can help you decide what to eliminate from your diet. But do they work?

Greg is joined by consultant allergist Professor Adam Fox to do a deep-dive and separate out the science fact from the marketing fiction.

As ever this series we're looking for YOUR suggestions. If you?ve seen an ad, trend or wonder product promising to make you happier, healthier or greener, email us at [email protected] OR send a voice note to our WhatsApp number, 07543 306807

PRODUCERS: SIMON HOBAN AND GREG FOOT RESEARCHER: PHIL SANSOM

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0:00.0	Hello, podcast fan.
0:03.0	Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party.
0:06.7	We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July
0:09.0	for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival.
0:12.8	We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting,
0:15.3	including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane,
0:18.4	and some bloke called Greg James doing his Radio 4 show called Rewinder.
0:23.2	You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts, and the best part is free.
0:28.1	To book your free tickets, go to crossedwires.org slash fringe.
0:34.2	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:38.7	Hello, it's Greg here.
0:42.5	You are about to listen to a new episode of the new series of sliced bread.
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1:04.2	Hello, I'm Greg Foote, and welcome to the BBC Radio 4 show that investigates the wonder products promising to make you happier, healthier or greener. Each episode, I run one of your
1:09.4	suggested wonder products through the evidence mill
1:11.6	to find out if it is indeed the best thing since sliced bread, or marketing BS. Today's suggestion
1:18.2	comes from Rebecca Dugid, who is joining me from Elgin in Scotland. Hello, Rebecca. Hi.
1:22.6	Hi. Tell us the wonder product you'd like us to investigate today. I would like us to investigate
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