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Lactose is white sugar, found in solution in
milk. It forms 5% of cow's milk. It is
commercially prepared from the whey
obtained in cheese-making. Like table sugar
(sucrose), it is a disaccharide, consisting
of two basic sugar units (monosaccharides),
in this case, glucose and galactose.
Subject by: Stuart Dicker