|Italian Cream Sodas, Agora, Houston, TX| With a hat tip to
@EatingOurWords on Twitter, I learned about the creation of the
capriccino- basically, a cappuccino made with goat's milk as a
way of accommodating lactose intolerant cappuccino drinkers.
Except, well, goat's milk has lactose, too. Almost as high as in
cow's milk. But not as high as in human milk - which is nearly
double the concentration in cow's milk So, how did lactose-
intolerant humans survive being breastfed? |Breakfast custard,
Peppersoup Cafe, Houston, TX| Let's clear up some of
misunderstanding about the basic chemistry and biology of
lactose in the diet. What is lactose? It is the primary
carbohydrate in milk - the milk sugar so to speak. Lactose
itself is a disaccharide, that is a sugar made up of two simple
sugars connected together - those two are galactose and glucose.
Glucose, you may have heard of - it's the primary sugar in corn
syrup (the regular kind, not the high fructose kind). Galactose
is an isomer of glucose - has the same basi