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Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?

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Re: Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?

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that seems a bit more likely than having just one, all the time

Considering that a fistful is just about an entire package, I'm not so sure. Tic tacs are supposed to be breath mints, not candy. If you wanted to eat candy why wouldn't you just buy, like, skittles?

If it's meant to be a breath mint, why is it available in flavours other than mint, like Orange, Strawberry & cream and Tropical Adventure?

Re: Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?

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I developed a severe dairy protein allergy in my late 30s. At first, I thought it was just a lactose issue but anything dairy triggers it (with symptoms aligning with vasculitis). While I'm not vegan, it's just easier to eat vegan food when I go to a restaurant. I generally know what's safe from the grocery store but always look for the Contains Milk or Dairy Free labels. The labeling is extremely important. I find i…

My son is anaphylactic on contact with cow's milk. We're on an experimental program to reverse this by dosing him with milks closer and closer to cow's. If you're interested (and courageous) try camel milk - it's the furthest away milk from cow in the program.

My understanding is that it is somewhat common in adults to have a virus (cold, flu, etc) trigger a dairy protein allergy. They’re most often irreversible, or so the MDs told me. Anyhow, it’s been 15 years without dairy so I’m used to living without it. There are far more high quality non-dairy alternatives now than there were even 5 years ago, thankfully!

Re: Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?

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It's not possible to filter lactose out of the milk. The only possibility to get lactose free milk is to split lactose into glucose and galactose with the enzyme lactase. And that's actually is done: just dump lactase into cow milk. I never drank not sweet lactose free milk. But, if one is about to make a milk powder, then it is possible to remove the split lactose sugar crystals. But it's not milk anymore..

Fairlife brand lactose brand milk claims that they are able to do it.

Yes, they do it with ultrafiltration and as the patent says with nano filtration and, with salt addition to get reversed osmosis. The steps are quite clear described.

Re: Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?

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Fairlife brand lactose brand milk claims that they are able to do it.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US7829130B2/en via https://www.reddit.com/r/chemistry/comments/1claif5/getting_... From my understanding they take advantage of lactose being smaller than milk and they just get the milk "stuck" in the filter and then throw out the unfiltered lactose.

They remove a part of the lactose first, then add lactase. It's not as sweet anymore then.

Re: Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?

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It's not possible to filter lactose out of the milk. The only possibility to get lactose free milk is to split lactose into glucose and galactose with the enzyme lactase. And that's actually is done: just dump lactase into cow milk. I never drank not sweet lactose free milk. But, if one is about to make a milk powder, then it is possible to remove the split lactose sugar crystals. But it's not milk anymore..

You can do it the other way around: instead of filtering lactose out of the milk you filter the solids making a protein and fats concentrate. This is mostly used as a preprocessing step for cheese production, but by rehydrating you get ultra-filtered milk, which are lactose-free and not sweet.

Oh yes.. I haven't thought of this. Oh my. Ultrafiltration by/with osmosis and a semi permeable membrane allows to remove water and small molecules. The same process as dialysis-treatment in kidney failure. To get the sugar and water solubles out of milk, you need to pull a bit of the water from the milk and with it all the stuff that is smaller than the holes in the membrane (filter). And then, you readd plain water or take the ultrafiltrate and do a second stage of filtering with even finer membrane. And readd this to the now concentrated, thick milk. If it's not like the principle of dialysis, then maybe be like lipidapheresis which is a bit different in function. Or a Mix of the two systems :)

So it's possible. Thank for pointing out.

Re: Can a product with "0g sugar" contain lactose?

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post #101

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Considering that a fistful is just about an entire package, I'm not so sure. Tic tacs are supposed to be breath mints, not candy. If you wanted to eat candy why wouldn't you just buy, like, skittles?

If it's meant to be a breath mint, why is it available in flavours other than mint, like Orange, Strawberry & cream and Tropical Adventure?

"breath mint" doesn't have to be mint, it just means small edible candy you put in your mouth to make it smell less like a mouth
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