Your tolerance profile is what the protocol is for. Six groups, and what your own log showed about each.
What the statuses mean
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Not tested yet | You have not run a challenge for this group. It is not the same as "fine" |
| No reaction | You tested it and your log showed no change |
| Fine up to a point | Steady up to the serving shown, changed above it |
| Mixed | Some change on the larger servings only |
| Reacted | A clear change. Worth retesting in a few months |
None of these says anything about what you have. They describe what your log showed.
Foods you have brought back
Phase 3 keeps a list of the groups you have restored, and that is the list Loopa celebrates. There is no streak for days avoided and no badge for strictness anywhere in this protocol, by design: a diet you are meant to leave should not be rewarding you for staying in it.
Most people restore most groups. The blinded research found an average of about two and a half reacting groups out of six (Van den Houte K et al., Gastroenterology, 2024 · doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2024.02.008).
Retesting
A group you reacted to is scheduled for a retest a few months out, and Loopa will remind you. Tolerance changes, and a result that is never revisited becomes a food you avoid for years on the strength of three days.
You can bring a retest forward whenever you like.
How your profile is used
Once you are in the personalization phase, meal checks are judged against your profile rather than against the general thresholds. A group you tolerated is ordinary food again and stops being flagged. A group you are fine with up to a point is checked against your own amount of it, explained below. An untested group is a gentle caution, never a refusal, there is no evidence against something nobody tested.
Fine up to a point: how your amount is used
The serving on your profile is the amount of your test food that stayed steady. Loopa works out how much of the group that serving carried, and checks every other meal by how much of the same group it contains, not by how much it weighs.
That difference matters because the same weight of two foods can carry very different amounts of a group. Onion has about 1.97 g of fructans per 100 g and wheat flour about 0.75 g (Ferjancic B et al., Frontiers in Nutrition, 2024 · doi:10.3389/fnut.2024.1446771). A meal can sit comfortably inside your amount at one weight of one food and go over it at a smaller weight of another, and portions across a meal add up.
A meal above your amount gets a caution, never a refusal. Where Loopa has no measurement of the group in your test food, meals are checked against the general threshold for that group instead.
And what you decide
Your profile is what the tests found. Separately from it you can tell Loopa how each group suits you, and mark individual foods as ones you get on with or ones that bother you. Those are your instructions and they never overwrite a result, nor a result them.
See also: Running a reintroduction challenge · What suits you: your own settings
