Planet Lactose

J. P. Licks is a small chain of seven ice cream stores in the Boston area. They boast that they are "Kosher certified and proudly meet...

... you might have to go on reality television. The horror! The horror! Before you avert your eyes in sheer mortification, here's some h...

Can so-called "friendly" bacteria, the type that are added to "functional foods" and known as probiotics, be dangerous? ...

Q. a. Is goat milk lactose free? b. My mom claims to have become lactose intolerant. since a lot of my diet here is milk based, with lots of...

I'm old fashioned enough to believe that cooking food is what separates humans from animals, so the raw food movement baffles me. Vegani...

If you don't want to go for lactose-free milk as your drink of choice, what are the alternatives? Soy milk is the most common. Rice milk...

Lifetime Specialty Cheeses is one of the major sources for real-time lactose-free cheese. Back in July I had to announce that Lifetime was...

Lactase is the enzyme that digests lactose. Virtually all humans make lactase at birth so that they can digest the lactose in breastmilk. St...

While we're waiting for the results of a huge five-year study of a gluten-free, casein-free (GFCF) diet to come out of The University of...

On Sunday I wrote about the contentiousness of allergy issues in Our Reactions to Allergy Reaction Reactions . I noted that parents of child...

Divvies makes Martha Stewart! Let me rephrase that. I've mentioned Divvies , makers of kosher, vegan, dairy-free and several other frees...

I see stories in newspapers, magazines, and blogs every week that mock lactose intolerance and food allergies. Some people seem to find the ...

I write fantasy and science fiction professionally. Even so I swear I could never make anything up as wild as homeopathy. Homeopathy is base...

I've spent countless hours in supermarket aisles reading the ingredients lists on products. It's tedious. It's bothersome. It...

"It is beyond our imagination to even find a theory that would cause the food to be unsafe." With that statement summarizing the s...