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0580/2016 - Lactose in industrialized foods: assessment of availability to its amount
Lactose em alimentos industrializados: avaliação da disponibilidade da informação de quantidade.

Author:

• Raíssa Aparecida Borges Batista - Batista, R.A.B - uberlandia - Universidade Federal de UberlandiaUniversidade Federal de UberlandiaUniversidade Federal de Uberlandia - <raissaborges26@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9928-5872

Co-author(s):

• Dyessa Cardoso Bernardes Assunção - Assunção, D.C.B - Universidade Federal de Uberlandia - <dyessa.cardoso@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4711-7508
• Fernanda Rodrigues de Oliveira Penaforte - Penaforte, F.R.O - Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro (UFTM), Departamento de Nutrição - <fernandaropenaforte@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8483-1562
• Camila Cremonezi Japur - Japur, C.C - Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Ciências da Saúde, Curso de Nutrição e Metabolismo - <camilajapur@usp.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0513-1758

Thematic Area:

Alimentação, Nutrição e Saúde

Abstract:

Patients with lactose intolerance, a high prevalence disease, should control the consumption of foods with lactose to prevent gastrointestinal symptoms. As tolerance depends on the amount of lactose ingested, it is essential the discussion on availability of the amount of lactose information in processed foods, which is currently not required. This study measured the availability of information on the amount of lactose in industrialized food labels, which contained milk or lactose in the ingredient list. Then it was held contact with the food industry to request these information. We evaluate 1209 industrialized food, of which 1092 were traditional and 117, diet/light/zero. Only 3,1% of the analyzed foods presented information on the amount of lactose in the nutrition table of labels. The presence of this information was greater (p <0.0001) in the group of diet/light/zero food (30%) than in traditional (0,2%). Furthermore, of the 156 contacted companies, only 14 (9,0%) reported the amount of lactose contained in foods, 93 (59,6%) answered the request, but have not provided the amounts and 49 (31,4%) did not answered the request. It follows therefore that there is a low availability of information about the amount of lactose in processed foods.

Keywords:

LactoseLactose intoleranceConsumer rightsNutrition labeling

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Batista, R.A.B, Assunção, D.C.B, Penaforte, F.R.O, Japur, C.C. Lactose in industrialized foods: assessment of availability to its amount. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2016/Dec). [Citado em 27/09/2024]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/lactose-in-industrialized-foods-assessment-of-availability-to-its-amount/16006?id=16006



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