Ok

so I read on the beloved WestonaPrice site that lard contains a HUGE amount of vitamin D. I'm wondering if this is true? Mainly because I eat cod liver oil but also a lot of my own rendered lard (which is soooo good). I was quite shocked when I read that. Also as none of the nutrition tables have any mention of vitamin D.

Ideas??

I was not aware that lard had any significant amount of any vitamin.

Well that's what I thought until I read this:

http://www.westonaprice.org/basicnu...indmiracle.html

It says there's 2,800 IUs vitamin D in 100g of lard. That's a lot.

I notice if I eat a lot of rendered lard I get very energized - I thought this was just due to eating lots of animal fat, but now I'm wondering if it is due to the vitamin D content.

Fat has abundant vitamin F.
(vitamin fricken good)

That is really cool if it's true! All the more reason to love our lard...well not OUR lard, the lard in our fridge.

It's mine. It's ALL mine. Don't you take my lard away from me you.

Interesting that, when I check the USDA database, it shows the amounts listed here for Cod Leiver Oil and Atlantic Herring (pickled), but the Lard entry does not list a vitamin D amount.

That is about 1/2 a cup of lard... probably hard to get in that much lard a day.

not for me!! Ahhh it would be nice to be able to eat as much fat as I would like to. (without getting fatter)

I just checked the USDA database and I didn't see any vitamin D listed for lard. The entries for cod liver oil and herring are correct though. There is no vitamin D in suet either.

Could be the data entry was wrong and has since been corrected.

Notice that the USDA database doesn't list vitamin D under lard. It's doesn't say zero, the value is omitted. Other vitamins are listed as zero.

lol you should check bears topic

Yeah - usda has a lot of weird *missing* numbers for things like vitamin D in lard.

Logically - if we store fat soluble vitamins in our fat - then won't other animals do the same? In other words - are the entries for say vitamin E wrong? Because the USDA always lists like crap-all vitamin E for most animal products - yet this is a fat-soluble vitamin. I know you find it in greens etc - but then where does it GO??

I'd ask the USDA, but I never get any feedback from them when I ask them about their database. Maybe I should say that I am a money toting rep from a drug company?

This is the crux of it I think.

We store fat soluble vitamins (like D) when we get adequate sun exposure or get a dietary or supplementary source. Pigs it seems also need the sun (and sadly in your local piggery, the pigs might never see the sun at all )

Other animals such as fish can produce Vit D from their diet ... if it is a natural one including algae, lichen or grass (hence farmed salmon are a poor source)

http://www.consumerhealth.org/artic...=20010214043340
http://www.westonaprice.org/caustic...y/cc2000su.html
http://www.krispin.com/omega3.html

So go get some free range, grass fed lard!

I think I'm in luck - here in Chile there is ample space for animals and from what I've seen they're all kept outside. So on with the lard.

Any more ideas about vitamin E?