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"lactose" is a correct and usable word in written English
It is an ingredient found in dairy products and can be used to refer to the sugar found in the milk of mammals. For example, "Many people are lactose intolerant and must avoid milk products that contain lactose."
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lactose
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The disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products, C12H22O11, (a product of glucose and galactose) used as a food and in medicinal compounds.
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I team the cereal with blueberries and pick my milk – being Melbourne there are lactose free and gluten free options everywhere – and eat from the supplied container.
All human babies can metabolise lactose, but only some adults can manage the trick.
He then estimates what proportion of the population would have been able to digest milk, using data on the lactose tolerance of different ethnic groups (which he assumes has not changed much over the centuries).
I open my results, and as I am of European ancestry (which has lactose intolerance rates of 2-5%) I am not surprised to discover that I am not lactose intolerant.
The first result I choose to open is on lactose intolerance.
Some claim to contain crushed bees, stinging nettles and even arsenic, as well as sugars such as lactose and sucrose.
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Nestlé's scientists explore the far frontiers of nutrition research identifying 1,000-1,500 different compounds in urine, for instance, to determine just what people should and should not be eating as well as developing products such as milk with added long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and non-dairy products fortified with calcium for the lactose-intolerant.
But what makes the arrangement particularly revealing is that it is not happening in the Dutch hinterland, but in Britain, where TPG and the lactose-logistics specialists, Express Dairies, are vying to compete against Royal Mail.This is just one symptom of how the post is changing.
Tesco's Free From range, for instance, offers 100 gluten- and lactose-free products: a 500-gram loaf of gluten-free brown bread is £2.49 $4.200); a standard 800-gram brown loaf is 55p.
Or, the lactose-intolerant person may observe that she gets a stomach ache after eating ice cream, and discover that ice cream is the cause.
The consequences are themselves the objects of valuings, which guide the formation of a new end-in-view, a new valuing — say, to go for lactose-free ice cream, because taking pills would be bothersome, and the lactose-free ice cream tastes just as good.
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