Mushrooms Exposed to Sunlight Can Provide Vitamin Comparable to Vitamin D Supplements?
The Oyster and Shiitake mushrooms we grow here at Trefoil Gardens spend their time outdoors growing on logs.
We've found that the stressors that come with the natural environment, wind, temperature and humidity fluctuations (you know we have a ton of those here in the Metro Atlanta area) and pressure from competing microorganisms, enhance the flavor and smell of our log grown mushrooms.
Scientists now suggest that the mushroom's exposure to sunshine may help increase the bio available Vitamin D naturally found in mushrooms. Studies show that consuming mushrooms exposed to UVB (aka sunshine) is comparable to taking a Vitamin D supplement!
This article from Science Daily breaks the study down into easy to understand terms.
But if you are like me and you want to see the science behind the studies (even if I don't understand everything I read) check out the published study below.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/derm.23321
Our Shiitake and Oyster mushrooms find many places in our winter diet from stews and soups, to omelets, and sauteed as a side dish or topping . Really, we pretty much throw them into any dish we can. We've always understood that the mushrooms were delicious and nutritious, to learn another way that they supporting our winter health is just an added bonus!
Hopefully, our readers are encouraged to add mushrooms to their diets, especially in winter and especially from mushrooms grown outdoors. But if you don't have access to mushrooms grown outdoors, you can set the mushrooms you have purchased outdoors in the sun to harvest the Vitamin D from the sunshine just like you would (just make sure you remove any wrapping first).
We've found that the stressors that come with the natural environment, wind, temperature and humidity fluctuations (you know we have a ton of those here in the Metro Atlanta area) and pressure from competing microorganisms, enhance the flavor and smell of our log grown mushrooms.
Scientists now suggest that the mushroom's exposure to sunshine may help increase the bio available Vitamin D naturally found in mushrooms. Studies show that consuming mushrooms exposed to UVB (aka sunshine) is comparable to taking a Vitamin D supplement!
This article from Science Daily breaks the study down into easy to understand terms.
But if you are like me and you want to see the science behind the studies (even if I don't understand everything I read) check out the published study below.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/derm.23321
Our Shiitake and Oyster mushrooms find many places in our winter diet from stews and soups, to omelets, and sauteed as a side dish or topping . Really, we pretty much throw them into any dish we can. We've always understood that the mushrooms were delicious and nutritious, to learn another way that they supporting our winter health is just an added bonus!
Hopefully, our readers are encouraged to add mushrooms to their diets, especially in winter and especially from mushrooms grown outdoors. But if you don't have access to mushrooms grown outdoors, you can set the mushrooms you have purchased outdoors in the sun to harvest the Vitamin D from the sunshine just like you would (just make sure you remove any wrapping first).
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