Skim milk powder

Skim milk powder is notable for FODMAPs, lactose, histamine and oligosaccharides. Clear on gluten, fructose, sorbitol, sucrose, tyramine, salicylate, nickel and oxalates.

Yes — Skim milk powder is high in FODMAPs. Skim milk powder is the most lactose-dense dairy ingredient there is: the water is gone and so is the fat, leaving the sugar and the protein. It is the standard cheap filler in processed food, and a small percentage of a recipe is still a large percentage of a milk.

Yes — Skim milk powder is high in lactose. Skimmed milk powder is about HALF its weight in lactose - the carbohydrate fraction runs around 50 per cent and nearly all of it is milk sugar. It holds more than whole milk powder because removing the fat leaves the sugar and the protein to make up the weight. It is the cheapest dairy filler there is, which is why it turns up in products that have no reason to contain milk at all.

Skim milk powder contains only low levels of histamine. Skim milk powder is low because the fat is gone and the bacteria with it, and dry powder produces no amines. Histamine in dairy is a storage measurement, not a recipe one. Milk is not a fermented food, so its histamine depends on how it was kept rather than on how it was made - and that is exactly what the study behind this level varied: STORAGE CONDITION. A dairy product's place on this axis is a question about the cold chain.

Skim milk powder contains only low levels of oligosaccharides. Skim milk powder is high on the FODMAP axis for lactose, and lactose is two units - not a chain. Drying concentrated everything the milk held, including the trace oligosaccharide fraction, and a trace concentrated is still a trace. Amounts vary by brand and recipe, so always check the label of the exact product.