Typically, when you look at the carbohydrate content of milk, you will see that it is something like 10g of carbohydrates and 10g sugar, meaning that all the carbohydrates in the milk are sugar. I have, however, encountered milk that seems to have starch in the carbohydrate content. For example, it will look something like this: 12g of carbohydrates, 11g sugar, and then 0 fiber or sugar alcohol, which only leaves the remaining possible carbohydrate to be starch, meaning this milk has 1g of starch in it.
When I looked up on Google whether milk has naturally occurring starch, It seems that it actually does not. So now I’m thinking, did they add starch to this milk? When I look at the ingredients of the milk, there is no listed added starch, it simply says “Grass Fed Whole Milk, Vitamin D3.” How is this possible?
Here is a link to the type of milk I am talking about:
When you are referring to starch, what exactly do you mean? The carbohydrates in milk would be lactose- aka milk sugar. It is possible if there are additional carbohydrates, they could be additives, depending where you are from/regulations.