ABSTRACT
Rice pudding is a staple food all over Scandinavia. In Norway, it is known under the name risengrynsgrøt, which translates into “rice grain porridge”. The rice pudding is prepared by letting short-grained rice slowly simmer in milk, thereby allowing the dominant amylopectin starch to thicken the milk. Some people find that dairy foods can cause bloating and that reducing their intake of dairy products, or switching to lactose-reduced products, may alleviate the symptoms. The milk sugar lactose is a disaccharide, consisting of two simple sugar residues: glucose and galactose. People with lactose intolerance lack the enzyme lactase in the small intestine, which cleaves lactose into these two sugar molecules.
