New Superfood Vitamin D enriched mushrooms

Vitamin D fortification in mushrooms

According to health experts, vitamin D supply is insufficient in Germany. Maybe mushrooms could help to remedy the deficits. Because according to experts mushrooms can be enriched with vitamin D and are a kind of "superfood".

Difficult vitamin D supply in winter

The body needs vitamin D especially for bone metabolism. However, as scientific studies repeatedly show, many Germans suffer from vitamin D deficiency. The important vitamin is usually made in the body with the help of sunbeams. In the cold season, this is hardly possible due to the lack of light. Therefore, it is particularly important in the winter months to take vitamin D through the diet. Suitable for this are mushrooms.

Although cultivated mushrooms such as mushrooms in contrast to wild mushrooms contain little vitamin D - but that can be enriched according to experts. (Image: bestphotostudio / fotolia.com)

Enrich mushrooms with vitamin D.

According to health experts, it is difficult to meet the total vitamin D need through nutrition.

However, especially for people who are only slightly in the sun, the important vitamin from food can make a relevant contribution to the daily intake of vitamin D and help, especially in winter, to prevent vitamin D deficiency.

Like Prof. Dr. Martin Rühl from the University of Gießen in front of the visitors of the 69th Annual Meeting of the German Association of Mushroom and Cultivated Mushroom Cultivation eV (BDC) in Darmstadt said that forest mushrooms in particular contain a lot of vitamin D..

Cultivated mushrooms such as mushrooms contain in contrast to the forest mushrooms little vitamin D - but that can be enriched according to the food analyst.

A kind of superfood

Vitamin D is formed in humans and in plants by light, especially important is the UV radiation. This can be done with relatively simple means in the mushroom culture.

According to Rühl, mushrooms treated in Great Britain and Ireland are already on the market.

"In Germany, fungi are considered" novel "in the meaning of the food ordinance after this treatment," says Rühl.

However, mushrooms enriched with vitamin D could be a kind of superfood - and thus hit the nerve of the time. (Ad)