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Your food intolerance reactions are mostly mediated by your immune system, as a result of the delicate interactions between food, your digestive tract, white blood cells and food-specific antibodies called immunoglobulins, as mentioned in the Introduction. There are five types of immunoglobulin: IgA, IgD, IgE, IgG and IgM. The molecules of food to which the body makes antibodies are referred to as antigens. Given that you eat three to four times a day, effectively exposing your body to foreign substances in the process, the food you eat easily represents the single biggest antigenic challenge confronting the human immune system – so perhaps it should not be surprising that your body would make antibodies to foods as often as to any other ‘foreign’ matter it encounters.