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Interesting inadvertent test of how many people are lactose intolerant vs. say they are.

korzun 10y ago
I'm missing the interesting and the test part.
evilduck 10y ago
From the article, it was cross contamination of whey powder which can be lactose free. IMO it's more concerning about their quality control and the fact that someone may be choosing the dairy free version for ethical reasons.
geofft 10y ago
I'm pretty sure people who are lactose-intolerant tend not to annihilate on contact with lactose, but lactose is hard to digest for them and increasing amounts of lactose cause increasing problems. Same with gluten-intolerant / celiac people; "I told them this pasta was gluten-free and they didn't notice" doesn't prove anything other than you very slightly eroded their digestive tract. As an analogy, I'm allergic to nuts but can usually successfully eat things with a small amount of nut content without even noticing, and foods fried in peanut oil are definitely fine. But if you tried to use that to claim I'm not actually allergic to nuts, you'd be wrong.
- evgen 10y ago
  Peanut oil is a weird one, as a lot of people with peanut allergies react specifically to a protein in the peanut. Most of the cheap oil that the local Chinese restaurant orders in 55 gallon drums from Sysco has been refined so much there is no peanut protein left in it. As someone with a peanut allergy I have had no problems with strip mall egg rolls that I know have been fried in peanut oil but needed to use an epipen at Manressa because something was fried in some sort of organic, unrefined peanut oil.
- tedmiston 10y ago
  Lactose intolerance varies widely and is totally non-binary. Some people will just have a rumbling stomach for a few hours from the amount of milk in a latte if they forget to take a few lactose pills while the opposite end of the spectrum will end up in the hospital and lactose pills will never be enough.

I'm missing the interesting and the test part.

From the article, it was cross contamination of whey powder which can be lactose free. IMO it's more concerning about their quality control and the fact that someone may be choosing the dairy free version for ethical reasons.

geofft 10y ago

I'm pretty sure people who are lactose-intolerant tend not to annihilate on contact with lactose, but lactose is hard to digest for them and increasing amounts of lactose cause increasing problems. Same with gluten-intolerant / celiac people; "I told them this pasta was gluten-free and they didn't notice" doesn't prove anything other than you very slightly eroded their digestive tract. As an analogy, I'm allergic to nuts but can usually successfully eat things with a small amount of nut content without even noticing, and foods fried in peanut oil are definitely fine. But if you tried to use that to claim I'm not actually allergic to nuts, you'd be wrong.

evgen 10y ago
Peanut oil is a weird one, as a lot of people with peanut allergies react specifically to a protein in the peanut. Most of the cheap oil that the local Chinese restaurant orders in 55 gallon drums from Sysco has been refined so much there is no peanut protein left in it. As someone with a peanut allergy I have had no problems with strip mall egg rolls that I know have been fried in peanut oil but needed to use an epipen at Manressa because something was fried in some sort of organic, unrefined peanut oil.
tedmiston 10y ago
Lactose intolerance varies widely and is totally non-binary. Some people will just have a rumbling stomach for a few hours from the amount of milk in a latte if they forget to take a few lactose pills while the opposite end of the spectrum will end up in the hospital and lactose pills will never be enough.