We have gone from having little
understanding of why we eat mushrooms to recognizing it is the best food source
of vitamin D. Now the science has been
tidied up as this item shows.
This pretty well suggests that
mushroom growers will no be treating mushrooms with UV in order to maximize the
vitamin D content. This will then allow
the growers to advertise the vitamin D at the stands were you and I buy
mushrooms.
Shortly, we can count on this
knowledge becoming commonplace.
I think that mushrooms will
become way more popular and the preferred source of vitamin D.
A scientific 'go' for commercial production of vitamin-D enhanced
mushrooms
by Staff Writers
A new commercial processing technology is suitable for boosting the vitamin D content
of mushrooms and has no adverse effects on other nutrients in those tasty
delicacies, the first study on the topic has concluded.
The technology, which involves exposing mushrooms to the same kind of
ultraviolet light that produces suntans, can greatly boost mushrooms' vitamin D
content. It appears in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and FoodChemistry.
Ryan Simon and colleagues note that many people do not get enough
vitamin D in their diets. Few natural foods are high in the vitamin, and there
are limits on what foods can be fortified to boost the vitamin D content.
Although few people realize it, mushrooms are an excellent natural source
of vitamin D. Some producers have embraced results of earlier
studies, suggesting that exposing mushrooms to ultraviolet B (UVB) light can
significantly boost the vitamin D content.
The scientists set out to answer several questions about
commercial-scale UV light processing of mushrooms. Among them: Does it produce
consistently high levels of vitamin D and
does it adversely affect other nutrients in mushrooms?
They compared button mushrooms exposed to UVB light, those exposed to
natural sunlight and those kept in the dark.
The UVB-exposed mushrooms got a dramatic boost in vitamin D (700
percent more of the vitamin than those mushrooms exposed to no light) and the
UVB processing had no effect on levels of vitamin C, folate, riboflavin,
niacin and a host of other essential nutrients
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