When it comes to our eating habits, around 1 in 8 people suffer from regular digestive disruption, for which food can often be one the main factors causing this issue. However, finding out exactly what foods trigger problems like bloating and abdominal pain after eating can be a hard task. Because of that, it’s not really that easy to know exactly what types of food work best for you and for your digestive system. Nevertheless, methods like Hydrogen Breath Testing can help people to better understand how well their body digests different types of food, which can ultimately help them to reduce digestive disruption that’s triggered by food. This method is a breath testing process commonly used in hospitals to detect when certain carbohydrates (like lactose and fructose) are not being properly digested. While this method only used to be available in hospitals, there’s a new little ingenious gadget out there that promises to make this process available for anyone suffering from regular digestive disruption, as well as much more affordable. Meet the FoodMarble Aire Digestive Breath Tester.
The FoodMarble Aire is a compact and ultra-portable breath-testing device that works together with its Smartphone Companion App, and you can use it as your personal digestive tracker to find exactly what types of food are most compatible with your unique digestive system.
In fact, it’s worth to note that this is the world’s first portable breath-testing device available on the market, and its main goal is specifically to make the method of Hydrogen Breath Testing that’s commonly used in hospitals available for the millions of people that suffer from regular digestive disruption.
With it, you can better understand all of your body’s digestive issues in a very simple and convenient manner, all by simply using the FoodMarble Aire Digestive Breath Tester to analyze your breath after eating a meal.
So, without further ado, let’s have a more detailed look at this innovative portable breath-testing device and check out everything that the FoodMarble Aire has to offer to anyone that commonly experiences regular digestive disruption.
DESIGN & SPECS
Starting with the device’s size, the FoodMarble Aire comes at a very compact size, measuring just 6.3 inches long by 2.1 inches wide by just 1.2 inches tall / thick, and this breath-testing device is also fairly lightweight, weighing just 0.95 oz., which ultimately makes it extremely portable, and thus, very easy to carry around with you at all times (inside a pocket, purse, bag, etc.).
Now, moving on to the device’s construction, the FoodMarble Aire features a very sturdy build thanks to its ultra-durable outer shell (made of high-quality ABS plastic), so even if you have it inside your bag with your glasses pouch and/or Smartphone, you don’t really have to worry about having the unit getting damage from any accidental bump from your other personal EDC (everyday carry) items.
I’d also like to note that this breath-testing device comes equipped with a Removable and Washable Mouth-Piece at its front-side, and as such, the unit doesn’t require any kind of regular maintenance (like a sensor replacement, or something similar to that).
That’s mainly because the unit’s Hydrogen Breath Testing Sensor comes directly built onto the main device, and sits neatly protected just under its Removable and Washable Mouth-Piece.
Overall, we have a very simple construction that makes maintaining the unit a very easy task. Just detach the device’s Removable and Washable Mouth-Piece every now and then, give it a quick rinse, dry off the unit’s Mouth-Piece, and just re-install it onto the main device. After that, you’re good to use it once again.
CONNECTIVITY
On a side note, I’d also like to mention that the FoodMarble Aire Digestive Breath Tester comes equipped with a built-in Bluetooth chip, which works via BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) to make the device capable of communicating together with its Smartphone Companion App (discussed in greater detail just ahead, at the end of the article).
BATTERY & BATTERY LIFE
Note that this portable breath-testing device is powered by a rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery, which can offer you a few days of battery life before needing to be recharged.
To recharge the unit’s battery, you simply have to connect its included Micro USB Charging Cable to its Micro USB Charging port, which can be found integrated at the right side of the device.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
So, if you’re the type of person that commonly experiences regular digestive disruption, you should exactly how this common health issue happens inside your body. Basically, it all starts with the food you ate in your last meal not being properly absorbed.
In other words, when you eat something, that food travels through your stomach and into your small intestine for absorption. However, if any of those types of food it’s not fully digested, the remainder continues on to your large intestine where a specific bacteria will start to break it down by a process called fermentation. During (and only during) this process, Hydrogen is produced, and that same Hydrogen then makes its way into your bloodstream and begins to circulate around the body, ultimately moving to your lungs.
Lastly, just after that recently produced Hydrogen reaches your lungs, those Hydrogen molecules are finally exhaled on each breath you take.
As such, since the FoodMarble Aire is designed to work like a portable breath-testing device that works based on the typical (and already-mentioned) Hydrogen Breath Testing method / process (meaning the same process available and used in hospitals), all you have to do is to breathe into the device’s Mouth-Piece (directly into its Hydrogen Breath Testing Sensor), and then the FoodMarble Aire will be able to accurately measure the level of hydrogen on your breath.
For those interested in just how effective this portable breath-testing device really is, you can also read the company’s two successful Validation Studies, for which the first one compares the FoodMarble Aire against the gold-standard clinical device in a study presented at the British Society of Gastroentereology.
The second successful validation study was conducted by University of Auckland and then officially published in the journal Nutrients.
THE SMARTPHONE COMPANION APP – The FoodMarble App
Now, as mentioned before, the FoodMarble Aire Digestive Breath Tester works together with its Smartphone Companion App, called the FoodMarble App, which is available to download for free for both iOS and Android devices.
To put it simply, the FoodMarble App allows you to take control of your digestive health by tracking specific key factors, such as what you eat, as well as your sleep and stress levels, and even any symptoms that you might experience when suffering from regular digestive disruption. Not only that, but the FoodMarble App also allows you to measure how well you absorb key foods.
Via the App, you can conveniently log all of your consumed food / meals, which makes it easy for you to track exactly what you eat so that you can ultimately understand how different foods impact your digestive system and its digestion process.
So, right after you eat, the FoodMarble App will ask you to take some breath tests, for which those results will help you track your digestion in real time.
Last but not least, users can also build their own personal Digestive Profile over time, which more easily allows them (and healthcare professionals) to track and trend how those results change with different foods, as well as with other factors like their sleep quality and stress levels.
FINAL THOUGHTS
The FoodMarble Aire is a compact and ultra-portable breath-testing device that works together with its Smartphone Companion App, and you can use it as your personal digestive tracker to find exactly what types of food are most compatible with your unique digestive system.
With it, you can better understand all of your body’s digestive issues in a very simple and convenient manner, all by simply using the FoodMarble Aire Digestive Breath Tester to analyze your breath after eating a meal.
Overall, this is a really handy gadget to have around for anyone that commonly experiences /suffers from regular digestive disruption.
If you’re interested in buying it, each unit is currently going for just $179.00. You can order yours online right now, directly from FoodMarble’s official shopping page, which you can access via this link here.
In addition, for an extra small fee of just $29, customers can also be part of the company’s FODMAPs Program, which provides you with a kit to test some really common and potentially hard-to-digest food components (including lactose, fructose, sorbitol and inulin).
