Anyone who's lactose intolerant or just doesn't drink milk?!
Anyone who's lactose intolerant or has a milk allergy?
I just found out that I am allergic to milk. I was about eat a few tater tots until I read something that says partially hydrogenated vegetable oil in the ingredients. Does that ingredient have some type of dairy or lactose in it?
Thanks
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Hi there.
Its funny you brought up Tater Tots. The partially hydrogenated vegetable oil in them is not the problem in tater tots for the lactose intolerant. But in years past, many frozen fried potato products used lactose sprayed on them to promote rapid browning.
Seems that lactose caramelizes at a low temperature. So they sprayed a light mixture including lactose onto some frozen potato products that were designed to be made in the oven - and that the lactose browned the outside of them before the inside dried out.
And at the time, they didn't have to declare lactose as an ingredient, they could call it 'artificial color' or something similar because that was the function of the ingredient.
In any event - the amount of lactose in them was so small, only rarely wold even the most intolerant person have a reaction to them.
Ore-Ida no longer uses lactose, but other brands probably do.
First, if your problem is *lactose* then you aren't actually "allergic to milk" since being allergic to milk involves a reaction to the proteins in milk, not a reaction to the lactose in it. (If you're "lactose intolerant to any degree, your problem is with the natural sugar in milk--lactose).
The symptoms for the two types of milk difficulty are pretty different in general too, with lactose intolerance mostly involving only the digestive tract (intestines, etc).
Not all "dairy" foods will bother those who are lactose intolerant though since some milk products have been fermented, etc, which causes the lactose to get eaten up (as in yogurt, many cheeses, sour cream, kefir, etc). And many who are lactose intolerant will tolerate a small amount of lactose, or whole or 2% milk, for example, but not non-fat milk.
You can read a lot about the differences between lactose intolerance and milk allergy, as well as how to know which you have and how to deal with it, in my answer here:
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind…
And more here about both:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_int…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_aller…
As for hydrogenated vegetable oil, it has no milk products in it, though many processed foods will have other milk products you may not recognize like whey, casein, etc, which might be a problem for you depending on which milk problem you have, and the amount of those things in the product, etc.
nope, i love tater tots and im lactose intolerant.
