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