Planet Lactose

Beverly Lynn Bennett and Ray Sammartano are husband and wife as well as co-authors of" The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Vegan Living as w...

An article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer , Zeroing in on Gluten , offers a good basic overview on the subject of celiac disease, the better ...

I'm getting a rash of "lact" queries following my posts on Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate and Not all "Lact" Words Are t...

Lawrence Kay, the founder of food development consultancy Foodworks in the U.K., warned that: the number of people living with a food aller...

thinkSPAIN.com , an English-language website about Spain, ran this article recently: A company in Málaga is gearing up for the pre-Christmas...

It's great being able to walk into a supermarket or health food establishment and find shelves and sections of fairy-free and other spec...

From NewsOxy.com : Headline: Children Food Allergies Soar to 18 Percent First line of article: Children food allergies are up 18 percent, ac...

I often need to reassure people who write me that none of the food additives found in ingredients' lists on packaged foods starting with...

Much as we hate to admit it, most milk alternative products don't live up to the originals. That's the reason that ice cream is stil...

From the press release . When gluten-free cook, mother and author Theresa Santandrea-Cull compiled her latest recipe book "No Wheat? No...

In these partisan times, I'm pleased to be able to share with you a controversy in which both sides are equally culpable, equally inane,...

Although you can easily find any desired number of articles and anecdotes from people whose lactose intolerance, dairy allergy, or other foo...

Photo by John Wilcox Kathleen Reale discovered that she had celiac disease in 1994. As with so many others of us who have to turn to a spec...

From the squabbling over Madonna's divorce from Guy Ritchie comes this gossipy tidbit via The New York Daily News . Madonna's person...

Moms who start companies because they made products for their children's allergies and the concept took off are a thousand points of lig...

The Latin term for milk is lac lactis . Because Latin was the international language of science for many centuries, especially during the ce...

Need to be sure your child or loved one has an EpiPen on his or her body at all times? Don't want to take the chance that it got left be...

Every once in a while people ask me to host a cooking class or provide a recipe or even write a cookbook. I turn them all down, politely of ...

I get asked regularly whether any birth control pills are lactose free. I know of one at the current time. Demulen. Demulen 1/35-28 http:...

In the almost three years since I first wrote about the company , Gak's Snacks changed its name to Home Free . A wise move, I must say. ...