Bread: Vitamin D

(asked on 30th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of fortifying bread with Vitamin D in England.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 26th January 2021

Companies are free to fortify certain products with vitamin D and already do so for a number of foods, including many fats and spreads, breakfast cereals, and some powdered milk.

In the United Kingdom everyone is advised to take a daily vitamin D supplement in autumn and winter to protect their general health in particular bone and muscle health. This is because during the autumn and winter we cannot make vitamin D from sunlight.

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