Fructooligosaccharides and lactulose cause more symptoms in lactose maldigesters and subjects with pseudohypolactasia than in control lactose digesters

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 973-979

  Teuri, Ulla ^b   Vapaatalo, Heikki ^b   Korpela, Riitta ^a  

^a FOUNDATION FOR NUTRITION RESEARCH   (Finland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Breath hydrogen test; Finland; Fructooligosaccharides; Galactose; Gastrointestinal symptoms; Lactose; Lactose intolerance; Lactulose; Pseudohypolactasia; Sucrose; Women

Indexed keywords

FRUCTOSE OLIGOSACCHARIDE; GALACTOSE; GLUCOSE; LACTOSE; LACTULOSE; SUCROSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINLAND; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BREATH TEST; LACTASE DEFICIENCY; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; URINARY EXCRETION;

EID: 0032913170     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/69.5.973     Document Type: Article

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