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lactose

milk sugar found only in mammalian milk and produced by the MAMMARY GLANDS . It is made up of one molecule of glucose and one molecule of galactose. People with a low level of, or no, activity of the enzyme LACTASE , cannot absorb lactose, a condition called lactose intolerance.

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