More than 90% of Chinese people have lactose intolerance? Why is milk coffee so popular in China?

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We randomly open a website to search for "Chinese lactose intolerance". Most of the articles will convey the following message: "most people in Asia suffer from lactose intolerance", "China has the largest number of people suffering from lactose intolerance" and "more than 90% of the people in China suffer from lactose intolerance." Then post a picture showing the global prevalence of lactose intolerance:

The source of this picture is a picture produced by a foreign website that studies lactose intolerance, but from the references marked in the source of the original article, it is found that the data in the academic articles (https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article-abstract/48/4/1142/4716179) refer to the percentage of people with lactose malabsorption in the world, including in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The prevalence rate is between 15% and 100%.

Well, then the data were "forcibly tampered with" by the lactose intolerance website. So what's the difference between lactose intolerance and lactose malabsorption? Let's take a look at the current definition of two symptoms in the medical community:

Lactose intolerance-A clinical syndrome in which patients develop related symptoms (abdominal pain, abdominal distension, flatulence, nausea, diarrhea) after ingesting lactose or foods containing lactose. Lactose intolerance may not be associated with lactose malabsorption

Lactose malabsorption-due to lack of lactase, lactose intake cannot be absorbed by the small intestine. Lactose malabsorption is not necessarily accompanied by symptoms of lactose intolerance.

It can be seen from the definition that there is no inevitable correlation between lactose intolerance and lactose malabsorption. Lactose intolerance will lead to varying degrees of gastrointestinal discomfort, but lactose malabsorption only refers to the inefficient absorption of lactose by the small intestine, but there are no symptoms of gastrointestinal discomfort.

According to such data, the vast majority of Chinese people will have symptoms of lactose malabsorption, but people who suffer from lactose intolerance do not have as many data as advertised on the Internet.

So why are there so many articles claiming that China has the largest number of people suffering from lactose intolerance in the world? Do not rule out some brands to pave the way for and promote some specific products, and do not rule out the hope that you can have a better understanding of the symptoms of lactose intolerance.

If there is really such a high data, so many people will have symptoms of gastrointestinal discomfort after drinking milk, then milk tea, milk coffee these can not be popular in China. There is a saying: existence is reasonable.

At this moment, a voice sounded: no! Every time I drink milk coffee, I have to go to the bathroom!

Um... The acid in the main coffee promotes the secretion of gastrin, thus accelerating the peristalsis of the stomach. Because the acidity of coffee will stimulate the intestines and stomach, so we are not recommended to drink coffee on an empty stomach! If their own stomach is not good friends drink coffee on an empty stomach, prone to stomachache, diarrhea and other symptoms.

Of course, do not rule out the effect caused by lactose, after all, lactose intolerance of everyone's symptoms are different, some may really just shallow stimulation to the gastrointestinal peristalsis, so that you have to go to the toilet impulse. If you want to know if it's because of milk, next time you get up and drink a glass of milk on an empty stomach, you'll know.

"Why do Chinese people like milk coffee so much? "

In any case, in the new product recommendations and product research and development of various merchants, we can see that Chinese people really like products with milk. Nowadays, milk tea gradually reduces the addition of milk, becoming a refreshing and delicious tea drink, but in coffee, it is the addition of more and more milk.

Pure milk, fresh milk, skim milk, purified milk, light milk, cream. There are really a variety of dairy options! Coffee drinks have so many choices of dairy products, the main reason is that the taste of coffee is too simple!

At this time, a voice sounded again: coffee has a lot of flavor! How can it be single?!

Everyone's perception of the taste varies greatly. Most people can only drink the sour and bitter coffee, but not the cranberries, cedar, 97% dark chocolate. The smell.

Therefore, from the point of view of most coffee consumers, the taste of coffee is really monotonous, if you do not add milk, flavor sugar, or other ingredients, it will not attract people's attention to coffee at all.

"since when do Chinese people become addicted to milk coffee? "

Maybe it's because when all kinds of coffee began to be introduced into China. At that time, people continued to drink coffee made mainly from robusta beans, such as canned or instant coffee. In order to make the coffee taste more palatable, most products will add plant fat milk, milk powder and so on, so many people's first cup of coffee starts with instant coffee with milk.

After instant and canned coffee, Starbucks, the forerunner of the Chinese coffee shop trend, has further aggravated people's habit of drinking coffee with milk. Although the aroma and taste of freshly ground coffee will be richer, but the mellow and strong espresso, although diluted with water, will still make people feel bitter.

So people will choose freshly ground coffee with milk. In order to better cater to the tastes of global consumers, Starbucks also continues to introduce a variety of flavor syrup for seasoning, pushing freshly ground coffee, milk coffee and flavor coffee to the peak.

This kind of promotion naturally makes consumers realize that if you want coffee to taste better and have more different tastes, just choose coffee with milk! With the pursuit of novel taste by the main force of the new generation of coffee consumption, malleable milk coffee has naturally become the key to the flow of various brands.

"Milk coffee, VS, black coffee."

With the prevalence of boutique coffee culture, the quality of coffee beans has been paid more and more attention in the past ten or twenty years. People also gradually pursue the original flavor of coffee, shallow roasting, a large proportion of drip filter coffee, can show the most exquisite, the most primitive coffee flavor of baking and extraction, also began to be valued and loved.

But in fact, whether it is black coffee or milk coffee, they are one of the boutique coffee. Boutique coffee requires total planting-presented to consumers, all from a professional point of view, as long as coffee consumers are satisfied with the whole service and the final product, then he is a cup of boutique coffee.

No one is right or wrong, only more preference. The development of boutique coffee needs continuous innovation to produce more products that can be accepted by the public. Whether it is the continuous improvement of the quality of coffee beans, or the creation and innovation of milk coffee, its own meaning is to hope that more people can know coffee and fall in love with coffee.

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