lactose
lactose
Definition
lac·tose (lak′tōs′)
noun
a white, crystalline disaccharide found in milk and prepared by evaporation of the whey leaving the crystallized sugar: used in infant foods, medicine, etc.
Etymology: lact(o)- + -ose
lactose
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- digest: Some people lack an enzyme necessary to digest lactose, the sugar in cow's milk.
- eliminate: By eliminating lactose from the diet it can in some cases reduce the cause of discomfort.
- contain: Any sort of milk produced by the human being or animals contains lactose.
- include: Fat is also necessary in the proper quantity to provide energy, along with sugar which includes lactose from the milk.
- have: The treatment of this intolerance is to avoid having lactose in the diet for a period of time.
- avoid: The treatment for lactose intolerance is straightforward: avoid lactose.
Preposition: in
- milk: A streptococcus bacteria is now added to change the lactose in the milk to lactic acid.
Adjective modifier
- less: As a result most ripened cheeses, like Cheddar and Swiss, contain about 95 % less lactose than whole milk.
Modifies a noun
- intolerance: Persons with lactose intolerance should never use goat's milk.
- maldigesters: Tolerance to small amounts of lactose in lactose maldigesters.
- monohydrate: Lactose monohydrate is present in the tablet film coat.
- malabsorption: CONCLUSIONS: Women with lactose malabsorption handle lactose better than usual in late pregnancy.
- gluten: Free from wheat dairy lactose sugar yeast gluten salt corn/maize soya starch.
- maldigestion: Comparisons between commonly used diagnostic methods for lactose maldigestion were also made.
Noun used with modifier
- wheat: Free from wheat dairy lactose sugar yeast gluten salt corn/maize soya starch.
- dairy: Free from wheat dairy lactose sugar yeast gluten salt corn/maize soya starch.
- sugar: It has been suggested that the milk sugar lactose is a risk factor for ovarian cancer.
- milk: It has been suggested that the milk sugar lactose is a risk factor for ovarian cancer.
- %: This contains 90 % protein, and less than 1 % lactose.
- diary: Free from wheat diary lactose sugar yeast gluten salt corn/maize soya starch artificial colors preservatives and flavoring.
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