The Importance of Eggs in Boosting Vitamin D Intake: Findings from a Study on 28,000 Koreans

2023-06-16 06:46:54

Dongseo University Professor Hyunsook Lee’s team announced the results of analyzing 28,000 Koreans
Among individual foods, eggs contribute the most to vitamin D intake.

[대한급식신문=김나운 기자] It was found that the vitamin D intake of the Korean people is regarding 1/3 of the recommended intake. Eggs contributed the most to Koreans’ vitamin D intake among individual foods.

These results were confirmed in the results of an analysis of vitamin D intake by 28,418 Koreans aged 1 year or older who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Survey from 2016 to 2019 by Professor Hyun-sook Lee’s team from the Department of Food and Nutrition at Dongseo University. The results of this study were published in the latest issue of ‘Nutrition Research and Practice’, an English academic journal co-published by the Korean Society of Nutrition and the Korean Society of Community Nutrition.

A study has found that the vitamin D intake of the Korean people is still 1/3 of the recommended intake.

According to the results of the study, the average dietary vitamin D intake of the Korean people was 3.1 μg per day. This is only 33% of the recommended vitamin D intake. Only 5.8% of the total supplemented vitamin D intake through food was adequate. Dietary vitamin D intake was lower among rural residents, the elderly and low-income groups.

The major food groups contributing to total dietary vitamin D intake were fish and shellfish (61.6%), eggs (17.8%), meat (8%), milk (4.3%), legumes (3.9%), and grains (3.8%). was Among individual foods, the food that contributed the most to vitamin D intake was eggs (17.4%).

Squid (8.5%) · Eel (7.44%) · Salmon (5.4%) · Mackerel (5.3%) · Anchovy (4.7%) · Yellowtail (4.6%) · Pork (4.5%) · Soy milk (4.5%) · Skipjack tuna (3.8%) followed. Seven of the top 10 sources of vitamin D come from seafood.

Professor Lee’s team said, “Vitamin D is known to have various health effects, including not only bone health, but also prevention of obesity, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes, and immunity once morest infectious diseases.” It is synthesized in the skin, but insufficient intake of vitamin D-rich foods has the potential to exacerbate vitamin D deficiency conditions.”

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