On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Dennis Andrews wrote:

> Cheese on pizza may have less lactose but it is not necessarily all gone.
> The type of cheese affects how much lactose remains. Also it's processing
> and cooking. We had a pizzaria around here that used to use 5 different
> types of cheeses on its pizza.
>
> The hidden ingredent in pizza that is not always recognized is whey. I
> have found that whey is sometimes present in the crust! Milk may be even
> in some processed meat toppings.
>
> I discovered this when I was trying to find out why I had much worse reactions
> to some "brands" of pizza than others. Now I stick to ordering pizza with
> no cheese from restaurants that I know don't have whey or other dairy
> products in the crust.
Doesn't baking do something to the lactose? I haven't had any trouble with
bread or muffins (yet?).  The only things that seem to really bother are
milk and ice cream.  Or I can possibly tolerate enough that there just
isn't enough in bread or muffins to bother me.

> Dennis Andrews
>
Ariel