Point to ponder... How much NFDM does it take to trigger allergy or intolerance?

[crankybuzzard]

 How much NFDM does it take to trigger a milk allergy or lactose intolerance?

I was thinking about this last night while I was mixing up some meats for snack sticks.  So, I hit the good old internet, couldn't find squat about it...

Thus far, I haven't had any problems with people eating my wares, but it could happen... I think...

Any of the meat safety gurus have any ideas?

 

[1finder]

Good question, never thought about this as I'm not allergic to anything, interested in findings. Don't use it much, only when fat ratio is off. Have a friend who's allergic to lemons, & 2 kids who are pretty much allergic to life. Everything other then food seems to bother/effect them. Will be good knowledge have.

 

[crazymoon]

CB, check out this site www.stevecarper.com/li/list_of_lactose_percentages.htm  it shows that NFDM has a high % of lactose ??

 

[crankybuzzard]

Great fund Crazy Moon!

I should be able to do some math now and see what's potentially too large if a serving for the poor souls that can't do milk or milk products!

I'll be back later.

 

[crankybuzzard]

Thanks to CrazyMoon for finding the link above.  According to it, and some other places I visited, <2% lactose in a product should be ok for folks that have lactose intolerance.

So, I did a little math and came up with the following:

My latest recipe for Italian sausage

	Grams	%
Pork butt	1814	47.75
Beef 80/20	1814	47.75
Salt	64	1.68
NFDM	60	1.58
Fennel	10.8	0.28
Cure #1	9	0.24
Black pepper	7	0.18
Sugar	7	0.18
Coriander	4	0.11
Caraway	4	0.11
Nutmeg	3.5	0.09
Italian Season*	2	0.05

Per the table provided by CrazyMoon, NFDM is ~53% lactose, which would put the total lactose for this batch at 31.8 grams total.

With a whole batch total of 3799.3g, that puts me at 0.00837g of lactose per gram of product.

Now, if we calculate each serving size at 113g (.25#), that gives us 0.95g per serving, or 0.84% lactose per serving.

Wouldn’t hurt for someone to double/triple check my math, but I think I’m ok with this one. 

However, if one were to follow the 1 cup (68g) NFDM to 5# (2268g) meat, we would be exceeding the threshold.

Later today I’ll see about putting together a cheatsheet…  I love doing this type of thing, but SWMBO wants to go eat Mexican food...