Base Senza Lattosio 250
Elenka product code 1226
A lactose-free gelato base from Elenka's line of high-digestibility products, dosed at 250 grams per litre. Lactose-free is not dairy-free, and the difference is the single most important thing to understand before this product reaches a menu board.
Specification sheets are supplied to trade customers on request.
About Base Senza Lattosio 250
This is a useful product attached to a dangerous misunderstanding, and the misunderstanding is worth dealing with before the product.
Lactose-free is not dairy-free
A lactose-free base is a dairy base. The lactose has been removed or split into its component sugars; the milk proteins — casein and whey — are still there.
That distinction is invisible from behind a counter and it separates two customers with very different needs. Someone with lactose intolerance is uncomfortable; someone with a milk allergy is at risk, and milk protein is what they are reacting to. A cabinet label reading "dairy-free" over this base would be wrong in a way that matters.
The correct claim is the narrow one: lactose-free. For a customer avoiding milk entirely, the answer is a plant-based base such as Base Vegan Lovers, not this one.
What it is
Part of Elenka's line of lactose-free bases, which the company presents as a turning point in its healthy-ingredient production, designed for taste, structure and high digestibility. It is dosed at 250 grams per litre — a medium-to-high dose, so it carries a good part of the solids and leaves less to calculate.
Why removing lactose is not neutral
Lactose is a sugar, and sugars do two jobs in a frozen mix: they sweeten and they depress the freezing point. Splitting lactose into glucose and galactose produces sugars that are perceptibly sweeter than the lactose they came from and that behave differently on the freezing curve.
So a lactose-free gelato is not a standard gelato minus one ingredient. It is a mix that reads sweeter and freezes differently, and correcting for that is exactly the work a purpose-built base has already done. Converting a house recipe by swapping in lactose-free milk does none of it, which is why those conversions usually come out cloying and soft.
Why this page publishes no dosage figure
Elenka quotes 250 grams per litre. The table it appears in prints milk and water as two separate columns, and the extracted text does not show which one the figure sits under.
Publishing "250 g per litre of milk" when it is per litre of water — or the reverse — is a costing and texture error that would survive every taste test until somebody doubled a batch. So the figure is on this page as prose and not as a specification, and the question is on the list we have put to Elenka. Request the specification sheet and we will confirm it.
What we do not publish
Ingredients, allergens, shelf life and storage conditions are absent from this page because no Elenka specification sheet is held for the Australian range. Absent means the data is not held, never that the answer is no. On a product whose whole purpose is a dietary need, that gap is the reason to get the sheet before it reaches a menu.
Technical specifications
| Format | 3 kg pail, 8 per carton |
|---|---|
| Applications | gelato, soft serve, single-portion dessert |
| Elenka product code | 1226 |
Full specification on request
The ingredient list, allergen declaration, shelf life and storage conditions for Base Senza Lattosio 250 are provided on the Elenka specification sheet. We supply it on request — please do not rely on the product name when answering a customer allergen enquiry.
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Frequently asked questions
Is lactose-free the same as dairy-free?
No, and the difference matters at the counter. A lactose-free product is still a dairy product with the lactose removed or broken down. It suits a customer avoiding lactose and is unsuitable for one avoiding milk, including anyone with a milk allergy.
What do I write on the cabinet label?
Say what you know in the narrowest terms that are true. "Lactose-free" is the claim this base supports. "Dairy-free" is not, and neither is "suitable for milk allergy" — for those customers the answer is a plant-based base, not this one.
Why is no dosage published here?
Because we cannot tell you what it is quoted against. Elenka states 250 grams per litre, but the table prints milk and water as two columns and the document we hold does not show which column the figure sits under. Publishing the wrong denominator would be a costing error, so we publish none and have asked for the sheet.
Does removing lactose change the texture?
Yes. Lactose is a sugar, so removing or splitting it changes both sweetness and the freezing curve — split lactose reads sweeter than the lactose it came from. A purpose-built base has already accounted for that; converting a standard recipe has not.