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I need to replace milk in my coffee and I need ideas (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Coffee fedi, help me out!

I'm getting more and more milk/lactose intolerant as I get older, but lactose free milk is too sweet for me.

I don't sweeten my coffee, and even lactose free milk with no sweetener else makes my coffee too sweet.

So, what do I replace my milk with when I order coffee?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I used to know a guy that put butter in his coffee

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I came to offer similar advice. I don't recall whether butter is problematic for someone with a lactose intolerance, but another thing to try is ghee, also known as clarified butter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I googled to check and found this from healthline.com

Butter is very low in lactose. For example, 1 cup (227 grams) of butter contains only 0.1 grams of lactose ( 1 ). For this reason, butter is well tolerated in most lactose-free diets. Only those who are highly sensitive to lactose may experience symptoms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Who hurt him?! That sounds... interesting...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

It's a thing in South East Asia. Usually sweetened with condensed milk. Not bad actually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I recall that being a recommendation when doing the keto diet. That and coconut cream in coffee.

Bit of an acquired taste I think.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't that still have lactose anyway? Not very helpful.

Although I wonder if margarine would work the same...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Different people have different lactose intolerances. I can eat cheese or butter, but milk will run right through me. From healthline.com;

Butter is very low in lactose. For example, 1 cup (227 grams) of butter contains only 0.1 grams of lactose ( 1 ). For this reason, butter is well tolerated in most lactose-free diets. Only those who are highly sensitive to lactose may experience symptoms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I have a really hard time with this whole thing, because I got told I'm lactose intolerance based on the results of an endoscope I underwent for (possibly) unrelated reasons. I didn't have (or at least didn't notice) any of the typical symptoms of lactose intolerance.

So I've cut out straight milk and cream, and only eat ice cream or milk/thick shakes with lactase tablets, but I still eat hard cheese the same as normal, as well as milk chocolate. And because I don't get the runs or anything like that, I don't really know if I should be eating the things I am.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Ultimately, your body is your body, and you kinda have to figure out how it reacts to stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Margarine is just emulsified fat and stableizers