Lactose

Lactose is a disaccharide that is made up of galactose and glucose molecules. Lactose makes up around 2-8% of the solids in milk. The name comes from...

Lactose intolerance is when a person cannot digest milk or milk products (such as cheese or yogurt). All mammals start off on mother's milk, and almost...

digest lactose anymore. This problem is called lactose intolerance and it affects many adults. There are many medicines that help adults digest lactose. Many...

itself in a broth containing lactose, rather than the simpler sugar glucose, it must adapt itself to: import lactose, cut lactose to its constituents glucose...

be broken down through a reaction with water. For example, milk sugar (lactose) is made from glucose and galactose whereas cane sugar (sucrose) is made...

acts on lactose, breaking it down so it can be digested. Mammals in their infancy usually make lactase: they need it for digesting the lactose found in...

galactose is usually found with glucose in lactose, a sugar found in milk and other milk products. After lactose is digested and absorbed, galactose arrives...

yoghurt is a milk product made by bacterial fermentation of milk. The lactose in the milk becomes lactic acid when it is fermented. Lactic acid acts...

humans originally could not digest milk products. Then, all humans were lactose intolerant (as, for example, cats are after weaning). Lactase persistence...

disease that makes your body unable to convert galactose into glucose. Lactose Glucose Galactose This is caused in an autosomal recessive pattern, which...

synthetic disaccharide (a special kind of sugar). It can be obtained from Lactose, at high temperatures. When milk is treated using heat, for example with...

Most Lactobacillus species are non-spore-forming and ferment glucose into lactose. This genus also contains several bacteria that make up part of the natural...

substitute may contain fat and proteins obtained from plants. People with a lactose intolerance or a milk allergy often replace milk by a substitute. The two...

other energy sources (such as lactose). This has positive effects when there is plenty of glucose, but can be lethal if lactose is the only available food...

some of their pocket money on a treat. Apple Ingredients: Sugar, glucose, lactose (from milk), malic acid, carbon dioxide, artificial flavours, colours E102...

as glucose and fructose) have one. Disaccharides (such as sucrose and lactose) have two. Oligosaccharides, and polysaccharides (such as starch, glycogen...

this fermentation. It also works with other sugars, such as sucrose or lactose. Lactic acid bacteria use fermentation to get energy. Fungi, plants and...

fruit bat, is milk production a normal male function. Milk contains fat, lactose, and protein, as well as vitamins and minerals. Apart from food nutrients...

sugar e.g. glucose, fructose Disaccharides: two saccharides. e.g. sucrose, lactose, maltose Longer chain saccharides: Oligosaccharides (shortish chains),...

chemical substances, some of which taste sweet. Mostly, it refers to sucrose, lactose, or fructose. Sugar is in certain kinds of food, or it is added to make...