Meanings of digest lactose in English

In order to digest lactose, our bodies produce a specific enzyme called lactase.

About 30 per cent of people retain enough lactase to digest lactose efficiently throughout adult life.

Different strains can help with diarrhoea and may help with people who can't digest lactose, the sugar in milk.

As a result, around 30% of the world's population continue to produce lactase, the enzyme required to be able to digest lactose, into adulthood.

Around two-thirds of the planet has a reduced ability to digest lactose after infancy (though that figure is much lower for people of European extraction).

Lactase is responsible for digesting lactose into glucose and galactose.