An estimated 15 million people in the United States have some form of food allergy or sensitivity, a statistic that is on the rise, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Users of the device are instructed to fill a disposable cartridge with a pea-sized sample of food and then load it into the device, which is about half the size of a smartphone.
Roughly two minutes later, after the device measures the chemical reaction between antibody proteins and gluten, the screen will display a happy face if no gluten was detected.
