• Humanius@lemmy.worldEnglish
    66·
    5 days ago

    That’s not exactly surprising. Europe has a dispropotionally high prevelance of lactose-tolerance.
    In most other places around the world lactose-intolerance is a lot more common.

    • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
      111·
      5 days ago

      Milking cows do better in cool temperatures, so it makes sense. The tropics don’t support milking cows as I understand it.

      • huppakee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        5 days ago

        I was in Colombia recently, (in the andes, not in the jungle though), but loads of cows there. They put cheese in everything. Even in their chocolate MILK.

          • huppakee@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            4 days ago

            Their standard cheese is to me like feta cheese but from cow milk. So fresh cheese, but also salty. On a scale soft to hard i’d say you it’s so soft you can’t cut a neat slice but hard enough it keeps shape when you cut it.

          • huppakee@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            5 days ago

            It was less disgusting as expected, and i’m glad i did that once. I don’t think someone can convince me to try again, but they are right: it’s a contrast of flavours and textures (which i guess, i do like).

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      4 days ago

      Which causes what, though? You can condition pretty mich any body to be able digest milk just fine. Unless you are actually highly allergic to it, maybe. It‘s easier when you‘ve had milk growing up and never stopped but people who have stopped sometimes lost the ability to digest it properly. On the other hand there are former lactose intolerant people who brute forced milk consumption and after weeks of diarrhea adapted to it as if they never had anything else in their life. I think it‘s far less about generics than many people think.

      Regardless, milk consumption has the nasty side effect of being terrible for the environment. CO2 emissions from milk products are insane.