SafeDoes mashed potato contain lactose?
Yes. Mash is made with milk and butter, and instant flakes contain milk powder already in the packet. Mash made with just potato and olive oil is perfectly good, but it is not what comes out of a kitchen unless you ask.
Eating out
It is one of those sides that arrive "with the dish" without being ordered: worth mentioning before it does.
Recipes change from one producer to the next and from one kitchen to the next: this is how something is usually made, not what is in the plate in front of you. The only answer that holds for your plate is the ingredient list on the packet, or the person who cooked it.
And how did it go at the restaurant?
Knowing what is in a dish is half the answer. The other half is what actually happened to the people who ate it in a specific place — and that is what SafeBelly collects: no stars, just how it went afterwards.
Open the map and see who has been there