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I've been looking online lately about gardening sites and trying to learn as much as I can. Tonight I was watching youtube videos about mushroom gardening. Then I went into different windows trying to see how easy it would be to collect the spores and use them to grow more to make it a renewable food source after shtf.
I found a Wikipedia article for portobello mushrooms that mentions they naturally contain high amounts of Vitamin D. If you go further down the page to the "see also" section and click on the effect of sunlight on mushrooms link, it states that mushrooms undergo a chemical transition when exposed to uv light and the amount of Vitamin D2 is amplified after as little as an hour of exposure.
Vitamin D is important because your body needs it to absorb calcium. Some of the plants that are common to the household garden like beans, broccoli, turnip greens, etc., have good levels of calcium- but some amounts of the mineral will be passed through your kidneys without its counterpart.
If anyone is growing mushrooms or considering it, you could easily fortify the nutritional value by simply exposing them to sunlight for about an hour.
Agaricus bisporus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mushrooms and vitamin D - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Calcium and Vitamin D: Important at Every Age
I found a Wikipedia article for portobello mushrooms that mentions they naturally contain high amounts of Vitamin D. If you go further down the page to the "see also" section and click on the effect of sunlight on mushrooms link, it states that mushrooms undergo a chemical transition when exposed to uv light and the amount of Vitamin D2 is amplified after as little as an hour of exposure.
Vitamin D is important because your body needs it to absorb calcium. Some of the plants that are common to the household garden like beans, broccoli, turnip greens, etc., have good levels of calcium- but some amounts of the mineral will be passed through your kidneys without its counterpart.
If anyone is growing mushrooms or considering it, you could easily fortify the nutritional value by simply exposing them to sunlight for about an hour.
Agaricus bisporus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mushrooms and vitamin D - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Calcium and Vitamin D: Important at Every Age