Food Sensitivities On the Rise In 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) listed more than 390 food allergens. Food sensitivities may impact as much as 10% of the global population.  The well of peer-reviewed literature goes deep when looking into what might positively support gut health. Only recently have scientists started looking at antioxidant flavonols and polyphenols and their relationship to the gut.  Balanced Immune Response On our dive, we learned that Quercetin could bind to proteins associated with food sensitivities (like wheat gliadin) in ways that may help us to digest these proteins with a more balanced immune response.*  We also learned that Quercetin might also help regulate histamine output from irritant-activated white blood cells like basophils and mast cells, functions that may help regulate our response to food sensitivities.*