Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?
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Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?
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#2Keep in mind that the FDA defines serving size:
The term serving or serving size means an amount of food customarily consumed per eating occasion by persons 4 years of age or older which is expressed in a common household measure that is appropriate to the food.
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B...
This means manufacturer's are free to make serving sizes based on how little a hypothetical four year old child might eat in theory. There aren't any substantial penalties for inaccuracy. There can be substantial incentives for optimistic labeling.
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#3Famously, Tic Tacs are less than .5g and so contain 0 sugar on the label even though they are pretty much entirely sugar.
Re: Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?
#4Keep in mind that the FDA defines serving size: The term serving or serving size means an amount of food customarily consumed per eating occasion by persons 4 years of age or older which is expressed in a common household measure that is appropriate to the food. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B... This means manufacturer's are free to make serving sizes based on how little a hypothetical f…
Reminds me of the Vihart video about serving sizes in soup https://youtu.be/mxNPpte_6m4
Re: Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?
#5Keep in mind that the FDA defines serving size: The term serving or serving size means an amount of food customarily consumed per eating occasion by persons 4 years of age or older which is expressed in a common household measure that is appropriate to the food. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B... This means manufacturer's are free to make serving sizes based on how little a hypothetical f…
Just as a counterpoint, in Europe the requirement is to specify nutrition data per 100 g of "usable" product. Some products are e.g. intended to be added to water before consumption, then the nutrition is for that final form, not for the concentrate that you actually buy.
But it's really practical, it makes it dead easy to e.g. compare calories, sugar, fat and so on between e.g. milk and apple sauce (to take random example from the breakfast table this morning).
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#6Now I am curious which products have '0g sugar', but still contain lactose. Here in NL, they normally explicitly add 'lactose' warnings to products.
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#7Famously, Tic Tacs are less than .5g and so contain 0 sugar on the label even though they are pretty much entirely sugar.
It says 94g sugar/100g.
Re: Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?
#8Keep in mind that the FDA defines serving size: The term serving or serving size means an amount of food customarily consumed per eating occasion by persons 4 years of age or older which is expressed in a common household measure that is appropriate to the food. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B... This means manufacturer's are free to make serving sizes based on how little a hypothetical f…
Just as a counterpoint, in Europe the requirement is to specify nutrition data per 100 g of "usable" product. Some products are e.g. intended to be added to water before consumption, then the nutrition is for that final form, not for the concentrate that you actually buy. But it's really practical, it makes it dead easy to e.g. compare calories, sugar, fat and so on between e.g. milk and apple sauce (to take random e…
This seems to make a lot of sense since there are no calories or nutrients in water.
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#9As someone who is also severely lactose intolerant, this is something you figure out through trial and error (or I should really say trial and extreme digestive system upset). Unless the food product is clear with mentioning "no lactose", you can only trust that product will contain a "minimum upper bounds of 500 milligrams of lactose per serving for products labeled “0g sugar”" and it could have that much as the author says.
I basically take lactase enzyme pills everytime I have a dairy product. Better to be safe than sorry
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#10Is buffalo mozzarella the cheese they eat in spaghetti westerns? :D