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Very little. Even most lactose-intolerant people can eat a little bit of cheese. Aged cheese contains only trace amounts because all of the lactose has been processed by bacteria at that point.

Processed cheese like that block of cheese in the meme contains quite a bit of sugar it's added to make it "taste better".

They also don't age it properly, they usually only age it for 18 months or less to realize the return on investment sooner.

thats a give for mass produced cheese and other things like wine, they add "flavoring" instead of aging it properly...

Low fat cheese is also quite bad if you want to avoid sugar / carbs since adding / leaving in the carbs is pretty much the only way to produce a low fat cheese while keeping the same texture (you can increase the proteins but it will make it very stringy and or hard).

some of the storebought stuff would only be aged weeks.

I get the same effect from eating "something with cheese on top" that I do from eating sugary stuff (makes me want to eat more, makes me feel less full). I always assumed it was the lactose...

lactose itself IS a sugar. That is what the -ose suffix is.