oil soybean oil corn oil peanut oil safflower oil and other triglyceride oils and dispersing or suspending agents such as the aforementioned natural and synthetic gums conventional methods are employed for preparing the solid and liquid forms of the present invention suitable techniques are described in remington 39 s pharmaceutical sciences 18th ed chapters 83 and 89 1990 which is hereby incorporated by reference the lactase compositions of the present invention can also be produced in powdered or granular form for direct admixture with food products consumed by subjects suffering from lactose intolerance for instance in the case of a lactose intolerant infant a suitable amount of the lactase composition of the present invention in a powdered or granular form can be added directly to the milk or other food consumed by the infant in the case of an animal such as a mammal that normally requires a dietary regime of whey the lactase composition of the present invention may be added directly to the whey the lactases employed in the compositions are present in therapeutically effective amounts to hydrolyze the lactose normally present in the food products consumed by the subject this amount of course will vary within wide.