Vitamin D can fortify a variety of food and drinks – even beer – March 2012

Schlitz beer was fortified with about 200 IU of vitamin D2 in the mid 1930’s

Advertisement from 1936

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.

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 fortification of food - review Dec 2011
• 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
• Overview Fortification of Vitamin D
• All items in category Fortification with vitamin D 136 items
• All items in vet and vitamin D 156 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