Calcium lactate, or E327, is a white crystalline salt made by the action of lactic acid on calcium carbonate. It is used in foods (as a baking powder) and given medicinally, most commonly to treat calcium deficiency or stomach upsets.
Despite the fact that lactate sounds like it comes from milk, it’s nothing to do with dairy, so it’s quite safe for someone with a dairy allergy to eat food with calcium lactate in the ingredients list.
I found an article on the web that I haven’t spotted before which has a great list of other things that do, may and definitely don’t contain any dairy, so I thought I’d share it here.
Check out this very comprehensive article from the Center for Young Women’s Health http://www.youngwomenshealth.org/milk_allergy.html. It offers a really concise description of dairy allergy, intolerance and which ingredients you can, might be able to, and shouldn’t eat.
It’s a minefield reading ingredients labels and trying to avoid all the many variations of dairy containing ingredients, but here is one you don’t have to worry about.
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