LACTOSE

CHARECTERISTICS : Lactose other name is milk sugar

It is odorless, white colored powder or solid crystal

TASTE

• It is slightly sweet in taste

DURABILITY

• It doesn’t lose its identity when kept in air

SOLUBILITY

• Highly soluble in water, less soluble in alcohol and in soluble in ether and chloroform

DENSITY

• 1.52

EFFECTS

• Non toxic

SOURCE

• Prepared from milk cream
• Its quantity in cow milk is 5%

GRADES

• Crude, pharmaceutical, edible

Lactose uses

It is used in the following products manufacturing :

• Medicine
• Homeopathy
• Infant milk
• Bakery and confectionery products
• Margarine and butter making
• Food products
• Yeast making
• Edible protein
• Penicillin
• Culture media and riboflavin making