LACTOSE

 In About Chemicals

CHARECTERISTICS

  • Its 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

 USES

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

 

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