The tricky thing about food sensitivities is how personal they are. Two people with identical symptoms might have completely different trigger foods. What clears up one person’s chronic bloating makes another person’s worse. This is why generic advice about common trigger foods only gets you so far.
Properly conducted sensitivity tests for food replace the guesswork with individual data. Here’s why that distinction matters and what good testing actually looks like.
Generic Elimination Versus Specific Testing
Low FODMAP, gluten-free, dairy-free. These approaches work for some people and don’t work at all for others. They’re essentially population-level strategies applied to an individual problem.
IgG food sensitivity testing is the opposite. It measures your specific immune response to hundreds of individual foods and gives you a personal map of what’s causing inflammation in your body, not what causes inflammation on average in a study population.
ImuPro’s Complete 270 test measures IgG antibody responses to 270 foods and additives. Your elevated foods are your elevated foods. Nobody else’s results look exactly like yours.
How the Science Actually Works
When your immune system develops a sensitivity to a food protein, it produces IgG antibodies. These antibodies trigger low-grade inflammation. The reaction is delayed, showing up hours to days after eating the trigger food rather than immediately.
ImuPro tests specifically for IgG1, IgG2, and IgG3 subclasses, the pro-inflammatory antibodies where the clinical relevance is strongest. This is an important methodological distinction from tests that measure undifferentiated IgG or focus on IgG4, which behaves differently.
The ELISA blood serum method is used for analysis, processed in ImuPro’s certified German laboratory. Blood serum is the right sample type for this measurement because it’s stable, reproducible, and not affected by the cellular components present in whole blood.
What Makes ImuPro Specific to You
Beyond the test itself, the results package is personalised. Your report shows every tested food categorised by your individual IgG response level. Nutritional guidelines walk you through the elimination phase based on your specific results. The recipe booklet included with Complete and Vegetarian tests is built around your non-reactive foods, not a general meal plan.
This personalisation is the practical difference between knowing “avoid gluten” and knowing exactly which of the 270 tested foods are causing problems for you specifically, including which alternatives are safe.
The Range of Tests Available
ImuPro offers testing options at different scales. Screen+ covers 44 foods for a starting point. Basic 90 tests 90 foods. Complete 270 is the most comprehensive option available anywhere in Australia. Vegetarian 221 matches the Complete range without meat and fish.
A Histamine Intolerance test can be added to any order using the same blood sample, measuring DAO enzyme activity to identify whether histamine from food is contributing to symptoms.
The Practical Side
The whole process happens through your local pathology centre using the provided request form. No GP referral needed. The kit arrives by mail, the blood draw takes minutes, and the serum is sent back for analysis.
Results come back as a clear, categorised report. The post-test support covers the three phases through to stabilisation.
Who This Is Actually For
Someone with IBS, chronic bloating, persistent fatigue, recurring headaches, skin conditions, joint pain, or difficulty losing weight despite doing everything right.
Someone who’s had standard medical testing come back normal and still doesn’t feel right.
Someone who’s tired of guessing and wants specific, reproducible data to work from.
ImuPro has been doing this for Australians since 2005. Call 1300 481 151 or visit imupro.com.au.
