The news that mushrooms pack more vitamin D in than daily vitamin supplements is good news for the industry in these times of vitamin D deficiencies appearing in the western world.
There are many reasons for the increase in deficiencies of this essential vitamin, one of the main ones being people being warned off exposure to the sun. Lack of the vitamin is now being implicated in the rise of asthma too.
After the study mentioned last month which indicated that even a lot of top flight Irish athletes have been shown to be lacking in the precious vitamin, there is definitely a case to be made for mushrooms on health reasons.
