What are the natural food sources of vitamin D?
Many products are fortified with vitamin D, but it's also found naturally in some delicious foods. Learn what they are by watching this video featuring internal medicine specialist Dr. Keri Peterson.
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Salmon is a rich source of vitamin D. And if you have that in a salad with a side of yogurt, that's also going to provide some ample vitamin D
for your day. [MUSIC PLAYING]
There are so many natural food sources of vitamin D, but many of them are fortified. So let's just go through breakfast, for example.
There are vitamin D fortified eggs that you can have with vitamin D fortified toast. Or if you're not an egg person, there
is vitamin D fortified cereals that you can have with milk and a glass of fortified orange juice. And that gives you 300 units a day
of your 600-unit requirement of vitamin D. Now, another option for you. Is during lunch, salmon is a rich source of vitamin D.
And if you have that in a salad with a side of yogurt, that's also going to provide some ample vitamin D for your day.
Other options, interestingly, are mushrooms. Mushrooms are a great source of D. And there are even some that are specially
treated with light that amps up the dose even higher. And it'll say it on the package. So you can toss that in stir fries
or in stews or even in pasta. And these are just some examples of great ways to get vitamin D in your diet.
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