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Fermentation of milk causes the lactose in milk to be broken down into other more absorbable sugars, one being galactose, an easily absorbed sugar that the body can almost always tolerate. Lactose is reduced after culturing and the lactic cultures prevent a further reaction in the gut by means that researchers have yet to explain fully.
