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skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:
Also very tangential to my ‘immigrant discovering the rest of the US’ journey:
Anecdotally, many East & SE Asian immigrants seem to be only ‘lactose intolerant’ to Clover brand milk, which is the primary source of dairy whole milk in Northern California.
On a personal note I can attest that I am not intolerant of any whole milk most other places. Clover makes me so sick IMMEDIATELY. I have never experienced this anywhere else
This got me down a rabbit hole of trying to understand why. The best theory remains that Clover milk has A1 proteins which many of us can’t digest. It’s not scientifically proven, but on a ‘this doesn’t send us to the bathroom immediately’ scientific scale, A2 is much, much better. Clover also seems to be responding to this by putting out an A2 product, but until that is the default in coffee shops..
Nowhere else have I experienced this other than in Nor and Central CA (I’ve tested this in all the other states)
(Related: this excellent post on ‘if Chinese people are lactose intolerant, why all the milk tea? Sorry it’s a *stack)
https://open.substack.com/pub/chinesecookingdemystified/p/if-asian-are-lactose-intolerant-why