Is there oil in mushrooms?

puppysweets1
on 11/8/12 1:22 pm - CA

Mushrooms are high in vitamin D.   But is there oil in mushrooms?  Is the vitamin D in mushrooms fat soluble or might it be dry? My guess is that the vitamin D in mushrooms is oil based or some of you smart science-y types or medical people would have suggested eating lots of mushrooms.  Can anyone explain this to me?

PattyL
on 11/8/12 3:07 pm

Mushrooms are low to no fat.  There are all different kinds and generally, 3 oz of shrooms has @2% of the MDR of D.  You would turn into a mushroom before you could eat enough to get in the D you need.  I looked and didn't find much higher than that.  Some of the vegan sites have info on lots of kinds of mushrooms.

puppysweets1
on 11/9/12 2:37 am - CA

Thank you PattyL.  Didn't think there was much oil in mushrooms.  But didn't realize the % of Vit D was so low.  Recently purchased a box of sliced mushrooms - just the plain white ones from the supermarket - and the label plainly said it provided 100% of D.  Didn't think to look at the serving size.  Maybe some truth in advertising problem there?  Of course that wasn't a DS recommended % of D.  But the entire box, about 3 cups, cooked down to ~1/2 cup, so began wondering if the vitamin D might be in a dry form in mushrooms? 

With the understanding that it still wouldn't be near enough vitamin D for a DSer, is it possible to find out if the vitamin D in mushrooms might be dry D? How could that be researched? Does vitamin D naturally occur in dry form in ANY food source?

Just curiosity on my part.

PattyL
on 11/9/12 7:18 am

Most of the foods advertised as being high in D are fortified.  The D is added by the manufacturer, it is not naturally occurring.  To the best of my knowledge, there is no natural significant source of dry D.

The highest natural sources of D are fish, fish, and more fish.  With a couple shellfish thrown in for good measure.

The shrooms that are highest are dried ****ake.  Of course the drying would concentrate all the nutrients in the mushroom.  If you reconstitute them, the D would drop.

 

puppysweets1
on 11/10/12 12:18 am - CA

Thanks for the explanation, PattyL.

Jaiart
on 11/8/12 5:45 pm - MI
As as I know most mushrooms are primarily water not oil. Unless you sautéed them lol..

 

puppysweets1
on 11/9/12 2:38 am - CA

Sautéed them, for sure!

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