1. Tagatose and milk allergy.
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Taylor, S. L., Lambrecht, D. M., and Hefle, S. L.
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MILK , *ALLERGIES , *FOOD , *DAIRY products , *SUCROSE , *MANUFACTURING processes - Abstract
This article focuses on tagatose and milk allergy. Tagatose is a new food ingredient being used as a reduced-calorie sweetener in foods and beverages. Tagatose is a six-carbon ketose sugar found naturally in some dairy products and in tropical date trees. As tagatose is incompletely absorbed, it provides only 1.5 cal/g as contrary to 4 cal/g for sucrose. Tagatose has approximately the same sweetness as sucrose. Recently, a manufacturing process for tagatose has been developed allowing the production of of increased quantities of tagatose.
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- 2005
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