Testing Food for Gluten at Home: The Nima Sensor Review

For people living with gluten sensitivity or celiac disease, eating could be a torment. Can I eat that delicious-looking pastry claimed gluten-free? Does this pasta meal contain gluten? All these burning questions could get a fast response from the Nima gluten sensor which promises to measure anywhere in the world in minutes whether your food contains gluten. As the claim looked too good to be true, The Medical Futurist tested it. Thumbs up for the Nima team. We were highly impressed! Food allergies, gluten sensitivity and celiac disease – an epidemic on the horizon? Food allergy has been referred to as the second wave of the allergy epidemic, asthma being the first. Researchers estimate that up to 15 million Americans have food allergies, including 5.9 million children under age 18. That is 1 in 13 children or roughly two in every classroom. According to estimates by Chinese doctors, 10 million or about 10 percent of Chinese children aged 0-6 suffer from various degrees of food allergies. In Japan, 7 percent of the population has to face a similar condition, while in Europe, the European Academy of Allergy & Clinical Immunology estimated that food allergies embitter about 17 million Europeans’ lives. The tendency is also worrisome: the number of children with allergies has doubled in the last ten years. When looking at gluten sensitivity and celiac disease specifically, it turns out that more than 3 million people in the US suffer from the latter condition. That is ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: Future of Food food allergy food sensors gluten health sensors Innovation Nima Personalized medicine review wearables Source Type: blogs