lactose

Example Sentences

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Shortly after Meadow Lane opened, customers posted online about undercooked chicken nuggets; another shopper, who was lactose intolerant, said that she’d bought chili topped with cheese that wasn’t on the list of ingredients.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

“Being a backtalker is like being lactose intolerant,” she writes in “A Note From Kim.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

It appears in milk and other dairy products when lactose breaks down under heat or enzymatic activity, including during the production of yogurt, cheese, and kefir.

From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026

Plant-based milks, despite existing for millennia, rose to global popularity amid the 21st century due to growing concerns of lactose intolerance and the environmental impacts of dairy.

From Salon • Aug. 30, 2025

When bacteria switched from glucose to lactose consumption, they induced specific lactose-digesting enzymes.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee