Lactose intolerance Lactose is milk sugar, found in a concentration of 4-5% in cow milk. People with lactose intolerance cannot digest lactose in the small intestine, so too much undigested lactose ends up in the large intestine. Here, lactose causes …
Take-home message Lactose intolerance is not lactase non-persistence Complicated word choices due to double negations. The issue is whether and how you can (still) digest lactose from milk products, especially milk, later in life. Lactose tolerance is usually seen as …
Not only raw milk, but also fermented products have an impact on health. A very old probiotic product is kefir, which is available in every supermarket in Eastern Europe, and increasingly conquering Western markets. Fermentation of milk converts almost all …
