Alex requests:
> Can you please elaborate?
>
> The calcium enriched lists "calcium lactate" as an ingredient and does
> not have a hechsher mark (at least those that we get in Toronto).

The word lactate means that a compound is a salt of lactic acid.  Lactic
acid is *not* lactose.

The name is a historical holdover from the time when early chemists
extracted the acid from sour milk. Lactic acid is a 3 carbon acid, not a
12 carbon sugar.  (You can get 4 lactic acid molecules from a molecule
of lactose, or sucrose, etc.)

Lactic acid is a part of the cellular metabolism cycle.  Muscle cells
create lactic acid when you exercise heavily.

The problem with lactate ingredients might come from contamination if
the lactic acid was extracted from milk.

Clif Flynt