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The dietetic approach, including lactose-free products, has a crucial role in the management of lactose intolerance, but labelling and compositional rules indicating the absence or reduced presence of lactose in food are currently not harmonised at Union level. Considering the above-mentioned issues and the absence of official methods for the determination of low sugar concentrations, we propose a new and simple IC-HRMS method to detect carbohydrates in milk and different lactose-free derivatives, which can allow the definition of concentration limits useful to characterise products suitable for specific dietary regimes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/foods10061219","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,28]],"date-time":"2021-05-28T11:33:20Z","timestamp":1622201600000},"page":"1219","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Determination of Carbohydrates in Lactose-Free Dairy Products to Support Food Labelling"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Sara","family":"Panseri","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety, University of Milan, Via Celoria 10, 20133 Milan, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2128-4589","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Radmila","family":"Pavlovic","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety, University of Milan, Via Celoria 10, 20133 Milan, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3771-757X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Marta","family":"Castrica","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety, University of Milan, Via Celoria 10, 20133 Milan, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6289-0182","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Maria","family":"Nobile","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety, University of Milan, Via Celoria 10, 20133 Milan, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2705-7635","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Federica","family":"Di Cesare","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety, University of Milan, Via Celoria 10, 20133 Milan, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Luca Maria","family":"Chiesa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Health, Animal Science and Food Safety, University of Milan, Via Celoria 10, 20133 Milan, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,5,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1186\/s12967-020-02429-2","article-title":"Nutritional management of lactose intolerance: The importance of diet and food labelling","volume":"18","author":"Facioni","year":"2020","journal-title":"J. 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