I'm not a huge milk drinker, but yeah, lactaid milk tastes exactly like regular milk (as it should, because it's just milk with the enzyme added).
Pills are the answer to everything else.
Did you know 65% of the world is lactose intolerant?
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I'm not a huge milk drinker, but yeah, lactaid milk tastes exactly like regular milk (as it should, because it's just milk with the enzyme added).
Pills are the answer to everything else.
The Salt Life
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38 now, been lactose intolerant since 25
Lactaid milk is expensive, dairy free coconut yogurt isa god send.
Lactaid milk is expensive, dairy free coconut yogurt isa god send.
I agreed that using the term "unnatural" was not the correct term. I was too lazy to come up with a better term, and instead explained how it could be deemed unnatural.
Being able to digest milk in adulthood is scientifically a mutation.
Depending how it is used, mutation can carry just as much negative connotations at unnatural.
People are getting hung up on a word in a lighthearted, joking thread.
Dr. Zoidberg
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Lactose intolerant person checking in. Without taking pills, I cannot drink milk or eat ice cream, yogurt, or much sour cream. Hard cheese doesn't seem to bother me, or cheese on pizza, etc. But anything liquid or creamy and I have very uncomfortable cramps. Thank God for Lactaid, but even then I just generally avoid that stuff except for special occasions.
There's actually a lot of hard cheese that is 0% Lactose for whatever reason (Cabot comes to mind), unless you study the packaging you'd never know.
But yeah, as a lactose intolerant person too, it doesn't matter if it's liquid or solid, you can either digest it or you can't. Maybe the lactose content is lower in some solid dairy due to how it's prepared/cooked, which allows your body to pass it before it becomes a problem.
Lactose intolerance varies but mainly means you don't have enough lactase enzyme to break down lactose and so you get gassy and may get diarrhea or indigestion. Anything that has lactose can trigger you, but generally things that are fermented have much less lactose and are less likely to set you off. You can get supplements to help with this and they are pretty cheap and at least some people claim that unpasteurized "raw" milk has additional enzymes making it easier to process (I have not seen wide support for this claim though). In rarer cases you can have an allergy to milk proteins in which case even taking a lactase supplement won't help. It's estimated between 1 and 4% of Americans have a milk allergy.
Moose Biscuits
It would be extreamly painful...
Yes ... the second darkest color still includes countris with 40% tolerance
...and I am in a place with the darkest color and I have vampire white skin =P
The Jazz Cabbage Master
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Organic Whole Milk is life
Mammoth Jones
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Only lactaid in my house.
I only eat icecream if I don't have work the next day in case of bubble guts. Nothing worse than having to deal with the runs on a train.
I only eat icecream if I don't have work the next day in case of bubble guts. Nothing worse than having to deal with the runs on a train.
This thread seemed completely insane until this post, I live in the UK and I don't know a single person who is lactose intolerant.
Fucking love milk, usually drink 2-3 pints in a week.
Pancake Mix
Copied someone else's pancake recipe
Yeah, I knew this.
Look at a map and you will see.
Most people live in and are natives of Africa or Asia, so you can expect by default most human beings will be lactose intolerant.
Only in (particularly non-Mediterranean) Europe, and to a lesser but appreciable extent, parts of Siberia and Central Asia did lactose tolerance throughout the lifespan really take off, nowhere moreso than the British Isles, the Low Countries, and Scandinavia, which is the only reason why North America has a similarly low rate of lactose intolerance.
By the way, this map is likely wrong about South America and certainly wrong about Iceland, which has a low rate of lactose intolerance.
Yeah, completely plausible, but you live in the only corner of the world where that's really a thing, and even then, only amongst the indigenous population.
Milk is love, milk is life.
Look at a map and you will see.
Most people live in and are natives of Africa or Asia, so you can expect by default most human beings will be lactose intolerant.
Only in (particularly non-Mediterranean) Europe, and to a lesser but appreciable extent, parts of Siberia and Central Asia did lactose tolerance throughout the lifespan really take off, nowhere moreso than the British Isles, the Low Countries, and Scandinavia, which is the only reason why North America has a similarly low rate of lactose intolerance.
By the way, this map is likely wrong about South America and certainly wrong about Iceland, which has a low rate of lactose intolerance.
Yeah, completely plausible, but you live in the only corner of the world where that's really a thing, and even then, only amongst the indigenous population.
Milk is love, milk is life.
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