Vitamin D intake can be increased by eating more fish and other seafoods, as well as
through fortified milk, juices, and cereal — check your labels when you shop.
Not exact matches
Koia launched 18 months ago with national distribution
through Whole Foods of its core range: Vanilla bean, cacao bean, and coconut refrigerated almond
milk beverages
fortified with a plant protein blend.
Therefore,
fortified cereals, grains, bread, orange juice, and soy or rice
milk exist as options for providing vitamin D
through the diet.14 Supplements are also available.
Prolacta Bioscience collects excess breast
milk from mothers who donate
through Helping Hands and processes it into the first and only commercially available breast
milk fortifier made from 100 % human
milk (rather than cow
milk) for critically ill, premature infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).
Through consumption of concentrated human
milk protein, in the form of a human
milk fortifier from 100 % human
milk by Prolacta Bioscience, critically ill preemies are able to get the nutrition they need to grow while being fed exclusively human
milk.
People also obtain smaller amounts of the vitamin
through foods, such as
milk fortified with vitamin D.
These deficiencies can be avoided or remedied
through several food sources acceptable to the vegetarian diet, such as orange / yellow and green leafy vegetables, fruits,
fortified breakfast cereals, soy drinks, nuts and
milk products (for vegetarians who consume dairy).
It's actually quite hard to get enough
through our foods, even in the most common
fortified foods, such as cow's
milk, which takes about 1 1/2 quarts to provide the Vitamin D RDA.
Some decent vegan, lower - carb food sources include nutritional yeast,
fortified almond
milk (which only has 1g carbs / serving) and nori (purple seaweed, 0.5 g carbs) Still, most plant foods that offer B12 pack a lot of carbs at the same time (you'll blow
through 5g carbs getting your B12 RDA in nutritional yeast), so Nelson suggests getting the vitamin via a vegan supplement.
Vitamin D is difficult to get
through the diet alone, but it can be found in fatty fish like salmon, trout, mackeral and tuna, some mushrooms,
fortified milk, egg yolks, organic beef liver, and cod liver oil (2).