Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.

Galactose-alpha-13-galactose commonly known as alpha gal is a carbohydrate found in mammalian meat products. It is not found in primates or humans both of which recognise it as a foreign body when it enters the blood stream and produce Immunoglobulin E antibodies to eradicate the carbohydrate..

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