Milk

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How to Read a Label for a Milk-Free Diet

All FDA-regulated manufactured food products that contain milk as an ingredient are required by U.S. law to list the word “milk” on the product label.

Avoid foods that contain milk or any of these ingredients:

  • butter, butter fat, butter oil, butter acid, butter ester(s)
  • buttermilk
  • casein
  • casein hydrolysate
  • caseinates (in all forms)
  • cheese
  • cottage cheese
  • cream
  • curds
  • custard
  • diacetyl
  • ghee
  • half-and-half
  • lactalbumin, lactalbumin phosphate
  • lactose
  • lactoferrin
  • lactulose
  • milk (in all forms, including condensed, derivative, dry, evaporated, goat’s milk and milk from other animals, low-fat, malted, milkfat, nonfat, powder, protein, skimmed, solids, whole)
  • milk protein hydrolysate
  • pudding
  • Recaldent®
  • rennet casein
  • sour cream, sour cream solids
  • sour milk solids
  • tagatose
  • whey (in all forms)
  • whey protein hydrolysate
  • yogurt

Milk is sometimes found in the following:

  • artificial butter flavor
  • baked goods
  • caramel candies
  • chocolate
  • lactic acid starter culture and other bacterial cultures
  • luncheon meat, hot dogs, sausages
  • margarine
  • nisin
  • nondairy products
  • nougat