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How Many Servings For a Day's Worth of Vitamin D?

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Updated May 05, 2012

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Vitamin D In Your Diet
The human body makes vitamin D when skin is exposed to sunlight. You also get vitamin D from some of the foods you eat. The Institute of Medicine recommends 400 International Units (IU) each day to prevent vitamin D deficiency. Good sources of vitamin D include liver, fish, eggs and fortified foods.

Normally you get your day's worth of vitamin D from a variety of foods, but what would happen if you tried to get your daily need for vitamin D from just one food? Let's look at some foods and see how many servings of each would be needed to give you the daily recommendation of 400 IU vitamin D.

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