Planet Lactose

SoYummi is primarily known as a maker of soy equivalents of meat products. (Notice the spelling: SOYummi.) But Kate Lawson of The Detroit Ne...

Appropriate and timely for Halloween: the Nonsense That Just Won't Die! Remember when I beat my head again the wall because of the lady ...

I mention frequently that I learned I was lactose intolerant back in 1978, long before dairy products made without lactose could be found in...

Gourmet magazine recently folded operations with a thud so loud that it made national headlines. What happens to purveyors of the world'...

Which would be a bigger surprise to you? That 80% of mothers with allergic children "say Halloween causes a great deal of anxiety"...

The Food Allergy Initiative has a page on Unproven Diagnostic Tests that includes some familiar targets of mine, such as Nambudripad's ...

The Instructables website has a multi-page tutorial on making almond milk . The comments also have a healthy debate over whether almond skin...

How many people in the U.S. are lactose intolerant (LI)? The number that has been given for the past generation has been about 30 - 50,000,0...

Translation cards - cards with the words, phrases, and questions you need to know about food sensitivities in other languages - are a handy ...

Many, many, many months in the making, I can finally announce the official publication of my new book, whose full title is Planet Lactose: R...

Daiya is a vegan cheese substitute that is making inroads into restaurants and stores. It's big distinction is that instead of soy or r...

Back in August I posted about a series of videos made by the Children's Hospital Boston . The videos followed the progress of eleven-yea...

Over at the Los Angeles Times , Elena Conis writes an amazing piece comparing cow's milk and goat's milk to a wide array of milk sub...

Chocolate has sometimes been mentioned as a healthy food. Turns out it's not all chocolates. They have to be... Dairy-Free. That's t...

'Ntolerance . Not a typo. A pun. It's a store that sells allergy free foods. As usual it was started and is still run today by peopl...

Jeff Eder sent me his press release announcing the creation of an online store that sells nothing but dairy-free products, the Dairy Free M...

Michael Pollen, the author of In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto , has a number of rules, or rules of thumb, that he suggests people w...

For someone who grew up in the 1950s there's an illicit thrill in digesting the Reader's Digest . No, not that kind of digesting. We...

Although it's usually attributed to Mark Twain, it was really Charles Haddon Spurgeon who said "A lie will go round the world while...

Intolerances are not the same as allergies. Lactose intolerance is defined as having symptoms because of the body's inability to digest ...