It's an excellent question. Food antibody panels such as Genova's test for
IgG and IgE antibodies in blood samples when foods are added to them.
Triggering antibodies is not the only way that modern foods like grains
cause harm. Also, the evidence on the accuracy of food antibody panels and
the effectiveness of the rotation diets they produce is scarce and
contradictory. Nonetheless, it is curious that modern foods don't score
higher than they do on those tests.

I had a food antibody panel test done myself and some of the foods it rated
as having high levels of antibodies do not give me any noticeable symptoms,
whereas other foods that it rated as having low antibody levels do lead to
symptoms. Other people have mentioned the same lack of pure correlation. It
was interesting, however, that I had high levels for a lot of foods, whereas
my father only had a few, which does correlate well with the fact that I had
much more food sensitivity reactions than him.


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> I have been struggling with a particularly difficult form of post
> polio, known as progressive post polio muscular atrophy (similar to
> ALS), for over 15 years and have been considering spending the money to
> have an allergy panel done.  My body has enough problems and dealing
> with foods to which I am allergic just doesn't make sense, plus my form
> of post polio appears to have an autoimmune component.  That said, I
> have been paleo or semi-paleo for over a dozen years and one of the
> things I do not understand is this: if humans are not yet adapted to
> grains, why does this not show up in at least some sensitivity when an
> allergy panel is done?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Kath