Lactose is a complex sugar-containing carbohydrate in dairy products. The main role of this substance is to maintain a normal metabolism.
Manufactured lactose is added to medicines for the treatment of gastrointestinal pathologies.
Despite the fact that it is beneficial for many people to bring this substance to the body, especially lactose intolerance develops at an older age. There is also genetic intolerance to lactose.
Symptoms of this deviation are:
- diarrhea;
- flatulence;
- dermatitis.
To get rid of these symptoms, you need to monitor the content of lactose in foods. For this, we list the products containing lactose.
Which foods have lactose?
- The highest content of lactose in skim milk products is kefir (6 g per 100 g), milk (4.8 g per 100 g), yogurt (4.7 g per 100 g).
- Also in large quantities, lactose is present in milk products prepared from milk - ice cream (6.9 g per 100 g), semolina (6.3 g per 100 g), rice porridge (18 g per 100 g).
- It may seem surprising, but there is a high lactose content in foods that are not associated with milk. For example, nougat contains 28 g of lactose per 100 g of product, donuts and mashed potatoes 4 - 4.6 g.
- There are dairy products, low in lactose, such as margarine, butter and mozzarella cheese (0.1-0.6 g).
Even in case of acute lactose intolerance, doctors do not recommend completely to refuse milk. Specifically for such people, de-lactose dairy products have been developed. Reduce the level of lactose in the diet can be, using products containing active sour-milk bacteria. It can be both enriched bifidoguogurt and special medication.