Is milk high in lactose?
Yes, and here is why
Munchable tiers milk as a high lactose load. Expect it to flag unless you have your sensitivity set low and it is a minor ingredient.
On a real product, the reason Munchable shows reads: Contains high lactose dairy as a main ingredient
What it is called on a label
Milk is also printed as cows milk, cultured pasteurized grade a milk, cultured pasteurized grade a whole milk, pasteurised milk, pasteurized milk. Munchable recognises all of these as the same ingredient, which is the point of scanning rather than reading: the wording changes between brands and the rule does not.
What Munchable checks for Lactose intolerance
- High load: milk, cream, ice cream, condensed and evaporated milk, milk powder, added lactose
- Moderate: whey, ricotta, cottage cheese, cream cheese, mozzarella and other soft cheeses
- Trace: hard and aged cheeses, butter
- Where the dairy ingredient sits on the label, as a proxy for how much is in there
- Your sensitivity setting, which shifts every threshold
The full reasoning, and the evidence behind it, is in the Lactose intolerance guide.
Milk and the other patterns Munchable checks
Other ingredients Munchable flags for Lactose intolerance
The catch with reading labels yourself
Knowing that milk is a problem is the easy part. Finding it is the hard part: it hides behind wordings that do not look like it, it matters more near the top of the list than the bottom, and a product you have bought for years quietly reformulates. That is the job Munchable does in the aisle, in about a second, from the barcode.
Check it in the shop, not at home
Point your phone at the barcode and Munchable reads the ingredients list for you, before it goes in the basket.