Vitamin D, known by young and old alike as the sunshine vitamin, might soon come from a source that's usually not associated with sunlight: mushrooms.
A preliminary study backed by the Food and Drug Administration reports that exposing mushrooms to ultraviolet light for a short period of time endows them with a huge amount of vitamin D. Five minutes of UV exposure turns the commonplace white button mushroom into a superfood with a whopping 869 percent of the RDA of vitamin D. That's more of the vitamin than is found in two tablespoons of cod liver oil, and probably much tastier.
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5-09-2006 @11:28PM Dr. Electro said... Mushrooms and ultraviolet? Who would have thought it? Forget drinking milk or swigging cod liver oil. Buy yourself an inexpensive ultraviolet lamp and eat shrooms. Nice!
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5-10-2006 @9:06AM ScottR said... "probably much tastier."????
Probably???
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5-10-2006 @11:22AM francavillafontana@yahoo.com said... I would like to read the preliminary study.
I was unable to find it.
Can you help me?
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