mushrooms & vitamin D
Although mushrooms are naturally low in vitamin D, they have the capacity to produce it when exposed to sunlight!
When you harvest your mushrooms you can expose them to the sun with their gills up for 3 hours. They will absorb the vitamin d and make it bioavailable to you when you eat them (Or dry them fully in the sun for delicious dried and preserved mushrooms all winter).
Mushrooms and animal skins create vitamin D when exposed to sunlight. Mushrooms are rich in the vitamin D precursor ergosterol, which ultraviolet B converts to ergocalciferols, also called provitamin D2.
We make our own vitamin D when sunlight hits our skin cells. Many people, however, suffer from lower levels of vitamin D during the fall, winter and spring. By sunning your mushrooms you can make your own supply of vitamin D-enriched mushrooms. The high vitamin D levels will last for more than a year.
All our excess mushrooms that fruit in our log yard are enriched with vitamin D and dried. We sell these in powders and adaptogenic spice blends.
