Planet Lactose

My Product Clearinghouse attempts to list and give addresses for every single national and most regional milk alternative products availabl...

All lactose is sugar, but not all sugar is lactose. And that's just the start of the confusion. When most people talk about "sugar...

Ah, science. It never stops changing, never stops learning. While you have to work to keep up with it, the glory of science is that it has s...

Health magazine named the five healthiest foods in the world in its current issue. Yogurt was one of them. "Among yogurt's benefit...

I'm often asked about lactose in the oddest places. And then when I do the research it turns out the places aren't so odd. Take beer...

An article in the online Hindustan Times, Dislike cow's milk? Try alternatives , gives a great summary of the varieties of non-dairy pro...

It took years for vegetarian cafés to appear in more than a couple of cities. Vegan stores are even rarer. Allergy-free shops? Almost invisi...

I've had several people ask me where their Vitamite went. Vitamite 100 was a non-dairy milk substitute distributed by Diehl Specialties,...

The dissertation, MILK HYPERSENSITIVITY Effects of Cow’s Milk and its Processing on Gastrointestinal Symptoms and Delayed-Type Immune Respon...

Allergy. Hypersensitivity. Which one affects you or your family? How do you distinguish between them? I took a stab at answering this in a s...

One of the silliest arguments against drinking milk is that it's somehow "unnatural," as if all the other forms of food that h...

Hope you didn't get worried about me because I didn't post for a while. Nothing happened, but I did have to go out of town unexpecte...

Oh, c'mon, you knew it was going to happen the second you saw the original announcement that McDonald's had hidden dairy and wheat d...

Whenever you think the world has gone beyond bonkers, someone in Corporate America will come along and kick it up another notch. Take Wonder...

I started Steve Carper Lactose Intolerance Clearinghouse in the early days of the web, in 1997, as a way to continually update the informati...

Jill Robbins is yet another mother who took her child's allergen-free diet into her own hands. Eight years ago, after her youngest son w...

McDonald's has always claimed that it had no dairy in its fries. Good. McDonald's has decided to disclose the presence of common all...

Marcia Blackwell of Blackwell's Organic, makers of vegan soy gelato and fruit sorbetto, dropped me a note about her company. She writes:...

Fran Costigan, author of Great Good Desserts Naturally, has a sequel out called, naturally, More Great Good Dairy-Free Desserts Naturally. B...

I just received yet another question asking whether a calcium ingredient on a food label contained lactose. The simple answer is no. No calc...