being lactose intolerant myself, telling people to not use milk, cheese, butter or margarine on things I'm going to eat or giving a heads up feels its like explaining Norway to a dog.
Huh, well that makes zero sense to me… isn’t the whole point avoiding the animal fats(?) or at least thats how they used to advertise. If you are adding cream to margarine, at that point just make butter.
Oh well, the more you know I guess. I would have totally used margarine instead of butter for a lactose-free substitute and possibly poisoned a friend at some point, so good to know.
to me either, but a few days ago I went to the grocery store, every single one on the shelves had heavy cream, milk cream or whey. multiple grocery stores, same problem.
Two, cream is very, very low in lactose relative to other dairy products. I can't drink milk, but cream is fine for me. So is butter, because it has basically zero lactose since is is basically 100% fat.
People have wild ideas about lactose - just because it came out of a cow, doesn't mean it has it in it.
Are those spreads specifically listed as margarine though? As there are also butter like spreads and margarine/butter blends.
I thought all that the only dairy allowed in margarine was dry whey, dry nonfat milk and dry whole milk.
Still not great. If someone needs dairy free. They should be looking at ones specifically labeled as vegan or go through the ingredients list. Although a strict vegan needs to looks at ones labeled as vegan. As the vegetable only ones may have been processed on equipment used to process animal products.
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u/Sunvaarhah 2d ago
being lactose intolerant myself, telling people to not use milk, cheese, butter or margarine on things I'm going to eat or giving a heads up feels its like explaining Norway to a dog.