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The 32 pages that link to Lactose, each with the reason it gives.

• CaseinCompared with: It is milk’s carbohydrate, distinct from casein’s role as a structural protein.

• Lactic acidCompared with: Its similar name can cause confusion, but lactose is a sugar rather than an acid.

• Reducing sugarCompared with: Its glucose unit retains a free anomeric carbon, unlike sucrose.

• MaltoseCompared with: Its sugar components and β linkage differ from maltose’s two glucose units and α linkage.

• LactuloseCompared with: Lactulose is structurally related but contains fructose instead of glucose.

• RaffinoseCompared with: Unlike raffinose, lactose can be digested by humans who produce lactase.