Planet Lactose

When I first learned I was lactose intolerant in 1978, me and a few Neanderthals, not only did nobody know nothing about LI but the number o...

I've written about Digestive Advantage many times in the past five years. It makes a brand of probiotic that is aimed specifically at th...

ConsumerLab is a rival of the more famous Consumer Reports. It concentrates more on pills, powders, supplements, and remedies, though, a fi...

Why aren't there more lactose-free dairy products available in stores? Because you don't buy them. You can't imagine how much I ...

Are germs driving us crazy? Apparently, yes. I walked into a nice diner in Greenwich, CT yesterday and the first thing I saw was a hand sani...

I found this tasty bit of promo from Laurie Sadowski sitting in my email, which means I have to share it with you. THE ALLERGY-FREE COOK Bak...

I usually comment on comments inside that post, but this deserves a whole new post of its own. The news is that big. That comment was in a p...

The Barnes & Noble superstore at The Mall at Greece Ridge coordinates what it calls a Small Press Author Showcase each year. They invite...

Back in 2009 I had a very exciting announcement to make. Valio, the huge Finnish manufacturer of lactose-free milk products, was entering th...

Holly asked me a question that is much deeper and puzzling than it looks at first. I'll try to cut through some of the confusion. I rece...

Winnie wrote me to ask "if you can give me an idea of what are the best places to talk to a lactose intolerant community online. In add...

My enormous 86,000 word compilation of posts, Planet Lactose: The Best of the Blog, is available everywhere in every kind of format, as I an...

One link in particular from the Great Page of Food Allergy Informational Links that I posted yesterday stood out for me. Of all the thousan...

Food allergies have exploded over the last two decades and nobody is quite sure why. Until scientists can tease out the true explanation fro...

Email from Jennifer, about a problem almost too good to be true. My question concerns gourmet chocolates, like truffles and other filled cho...

I received an email from Jo-Ann asking me about the percentage of lactose in goat cheese and yogurt. That's a question that looks ver...

86,000 words. Hundreds of articles. The cream of the crop. The most informative, penetrating, useful, controversial, opinionated, wild, and...

Hi everybody. As I was saying... As you can see from the dates, I took some time off. A daily blog about a specialized subject is a tough...

Remember the interrobang?! A combination of a exclamation point and question mark, it was the missing piece of punctuation that all keyboard...

Rabbi Rebecca Joseph is founder and owner of 12 Tribes Kosher Foods in San Francisco and creator of the Parve Baker , a dairy-free baking bl...