Lactose Powder

Milk Sugar - Finely Powdered Lactose for Baking, Brewing & Cooking

• Ingredients: Milk
• Finely Powdered (100 Mesh) for Even Distribution
• White/Cream Color with Lightly Sweet Flavor
• Ideal for Commercial Manufacturing, Brewing, Bakery Applications

OliveNation's Lactose Powder is one of the most popular "secret ingredients" for bakers and food and beverage manufacturers. Perfect for clean-label applications, our fine 100-mesh powder is made using only milk. Lactose powder, also known as lactose monohydrate and milk sugar, is a naturally sweet sugar found in milk that is ideal for adding slight sweetness, smooth mouthfeel, and bulk to everything from cakes, cake mixes, and baby formula to beer and cider. This versatile ingredient is a great choice for sweetening homemade or RTD beverages, as the finely powdered formulation distributes easily and equally in liquids as well as solids. Superior shelf stability (up to 2 years in a cool, dry location) makes powdered milk sugar ideal for home, professional, and manufacturing use. In general, lactose powder is approximately 15 to 20% as sweet as refined sugar.

Commercial Applications for Lactose Powder:

Industrial and retail bakers use milk sugar as a sweetener, a replacement for glucose and sucrose, to ensure tender texture in finished products, improve color in baked breads, crusts, and as a filler to add bulk.

Brewing applications for powdered lactose monohydrate include beer, wine, and cider. Because this versatile ingredient cannot be fully fermented by beer yeast, it is an excellent choice for adding sweetness back into fruited wines, mead, and ciders. Lactose powder is also a key element of many stout formulations, where it adds body and smooth mouthfeel.

Powdered lactose milk sugar is also ideal for non-alcoholic beverage industry applications. In addition to sweetening, lactose is ideal for adding smooth texture and sweetness and improving viscosity in dairy-based beverages like milkshakes, protein drinks, and RTD beverages or drink mixes.

Industrial and commercial food manufacturers for dry powders, premixes, preserved foods, and dairy-based products use milk sugar as a stabilizer to improve texture and mouthfeel, add sweetness, and as a filler to add bulk.

PLEASE NOTE: This product is intended for culinary uses only: cooking, baking, and other human food applications.