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. 2009 Apr 22;89(6):1821–1827. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.2008.26877

TABLE 4.

Source of milk lactose from the high-carbohydrate (H-CHO) and high-fat (H-F) diets during the fasting and fed states1

Fasting
Fed
H-CHO H-F H-CHO H-F
Milk glucose from plasma glucose (%) 67 ± 5 64 ± 5 86 ± 6 88 ± 4
Milk glucose from hexoneogenesis (%) 33 ± 5 36 ± 5 14 ± 6 12 ± 4
Milk galactose from plasma (%) 48 ± 4 47 ± 4 68 ± 3 64 ± 4
Milk galactose from hexoneogenesis (%) 52 ± 4 53 ± 4 32 ± 3 36 ± 4
Milk lactose from plasma (%) 58 ± 4 55 ± 5 77 ± 4 76 ± 4
Milk lactose from hexoneogenesis (%) 42 ± 4 45 ± 5 23 ± 4 24 ± 4
1

All values are means ± SEMs; n = 7. None of the variables differed significantly between diets (paired t test).