Vitamin D can fortify a variety of food and drinks – even beer
Schlitz beer was fortified with about 200 IU of vitamin D2 in the mid 1930’s
Vitamin D can be added to food very easily
- Very low cost to add vitamin D3
- Typically adds less than 0.1% to the cost of the food, and has no taste
- Can add vitamin D3 to clear beverages (using microencasulation)
However, most governments restrict what can be added to food which is SOLD
Possible opportunity to adding vitamin D to the feed of chickens, etc
Anyone can add vitamin D to the food which they consume at home
- Can add bulk vitamin D to your salt or sugar or jam or honey or pepper or basil or etc.
- Cost of vitamin D for a month for a family is only a few pennies.
[http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/davezweifel/plain-talk-of-schlitz-beer-vitamin-d-and-warf/articlefa065830-5bf7-5351-be61-5f355bcf505e.html |
Article on Schlitz Beer March 2012]
- Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation ( WARF ), apparently decided to contest the Schlitz claims
- eventually the brewery dropped the attempt to capitalize on what was then a health-related craze.
WARF continues to collect royalties for adding vitamin D to milk (and other food?)
WARF is the largest holder of Vitamin D patents in the world
- (Who said that a vitamin could not be patented?)
See also VitaminDWiki
Vitamin D home fortification- don't wait 100 years for your govt
5000 IU vitamin D baked into bread daily raised blood levels to 50 ng – 2009
All items in vet and vitamin D items
- If the govt would allow, it more could be easily added to feed for chickens, sheep, cattle, etc.
- Vets have been giving 3X as much vitamin D to their animals as the US govt recommends for animals and people
- Experiments have been run showing, for example, a 6X increase in vitamin D in eggs