Principle
Milk contains lactose (milk sugar), which can be extracted from the filtrate after precipitating out proteins. Lactose is a disaccharide of glucose and galactose. Lactose can be detected by the red colour it gives with ammonia in alkaline solution. Lactose is added to baby foods.

 

What you can learn about


 Lactose is a carbohydrate and can be isolated from milk


 

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