UV-Ray-Hit Mushrooms Provide More Vitamin D than Supplements, Researchers Find b4in.org/d05T As many people know, vitamin D is crucial for bone health and immune function. Most of us produce the majority of this vitamin via sun exposure, but obtaining vitamin D in the winter months can be quite tricky. While supplements are always an option, there are actually many foods which are natural sources of vitamin D. New research indicates mushrooms may be able to help, and that hitting them with UV rays actually boosts their vitamin D content just like it does in our own skin. UV light in the sun converts cholesterol in our skin into vitamin D. A similar process happens when mushrooms are exposed to UV light. And when we consume these fungi, we get the dietary boost of vitamin D that we may otherwise miss out on during cloudy or colder days. “The exciting thing I think is how rapidly we can take a mushroom that has no vitamin D in it whatsoever, and in less than one second we can increase the vitamin D content to over 100 percent [of the recommended daily allowance],” said Michael Kalaras, a post-doctoral scholar at Penn State University. More b4in.org/d05T
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:22:39 +0000
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