Mushrooms

Vitamin D in Food

Unlike many other vitamins, very little vitamin D can be obtained from food, as very few foods actually contain it. For this reason – and those reasons mentioned above – many leading health organizations worldwide are now recommending routine vitamin D supplementation.

However, there’s one food that’s actually a good source of the ‘sunshine’ vitamin, and that’s mushrooms!

What’s more, studies have shown that a new technology designed to boost the vitamin D content of mushrooms is not only effective in doing so, it does it without adversely affecting the other nutrients that mushrooms contain.

Research published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry shows that when mushrooms are exposed to UVB light (the kind that gives us a sun tan), their vitamin D content is boosted dramatically compared to those that receive no light at all. It’s also significantly higher than in those mushrooms that only receive direct sunlight.

In addition, the mushrooms exposed to direct sunlight lost some of their other valuable nutrients in the process… whereas those exposed to the UVB light did not.

This means that the new technology designed to make mushrooms an even better source of vitamin D isn’t at all detrimental to the other nutrients they contain!