Nutritional recommendations for lactose intolerance | Dietary recommendations for lactose intolerance

Nutritional recommendations for lactose intolerance

Principle of the diet

• Full
• 5meals a day
• Avoid all types of milk and all dishes that are prepared with milk.
• Soy milk or low-lactose milk is recommended as a milk substitute.
• For quark, yogurt and certain types of cheese, the tolerance limit must be tested in the best way.

Unsuitable food

Sausages (often the low-fat varieties) and bread and bakery products are also made with milk or lactose is added. Ask for it in the butcher’s shop or bakery and read the list of ingredients in the case of packaged foods. Be careful with some types of crispbread, milk rolls and cakes of all kinds.

It is best to bake cakes yourself without using milk.

• Condensed milk, milk, powdered milk, sour milk products (for yoghurt and quark, test compatibility), coffee creamers, cream cheese, cottage cheese, processed cheese, cooked cheese.
• Cheeses with a low lactose content are often tolerated in smaller quantities throughout the day (test tolerance limit). These are these, for example:
• Emmental, Gouda, Tilsiter, Edam, mountain cheese, Parmesan, Limburger, Romadur, Brie, Camembert, Münster cheese, butter cheese, hand cheese, Harzer cheese.
• Unsuitable are milk chocolate, ice cream and all sweets made with milk.
• Ready-made meals and industrially manufactured products often contain lactose (read the list of ingredients! )
• Lactose is often added to bran products and muesli.
• Tablets may contain lactose.