These things naturally contain vitamin D

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: food that contains vitamin D.

There has been months of squabbling over the claim that taking vitamin D would help protect you better against corona. Various doctors and scientists have stated in the AD explained that it helps against respiratory infections and improves immunity, so it is a mystery that not everyone takes it. It is not difficult to get enough, both in supplement form and in a lot of delicious dishes.

However, the Health Council does not want to give any official advice that vitamin D helps in the prevention of corona, because the positive results from studies on other respiratory infections come from studies on corona. They want to wait for more specific research before recommending that everyone should get more vitamin D, but according to Huub Savelkoul, professor of immunology at Wageningen University, it might already be too late...

Why wait?
The Health Council does maintain the very urgent advice that people in risk groups should take it anyway. These are children up to 4 years old, pregnant women, women over 50, men over 70, and everyone with darker skin or people who get little sun (because those people produce too little vitamin D in their skin). Meanwhile, experts, including Savelkoul and the chairman of the Dutch Association of Physicians for Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis Leon van der Toorn, recommend just making sure you do get enough of it. Too much is not good, as with almost everything, but if doctors and scientists themselves also ensure extra vitamin D by taking supplements, it certainly can't hurt to look into it. How can we help you with that? With good recipes of course, because vitamin D can be found in all this deliciousness:

Mackerel
Often sustainably caught because it has little bycatch and there is no contact with the seabed while fishing, this is really a delicious fatty top fish. Replace tuna with mackerel, mix it with fresh lemon mayonnaise or that great Japanese Kewpie mayonnaise, add capers and spring onion and salt and pepper and you have a super tasty mackerel salad. Also great in a mackerel melt.

Salmon
Choose wild salmon or salmon with an ASC label and go wild. Crispy fried on the skin, deliciously sticky with honey and garlic or in a creamy spinach shakshuka; it's all just as good!

Herring
Whether you eat it standing at the fish stall or have a little patience and put it in a deliciously Dutch poké herring bowl this national pride is not only tasty but also very healthy.

Eggs
Eggs contain less vitamin D than the aforementioned fatty fish, but hey, every little bit helps. So boil an egg just the way you like it, scramble away, or fry such a perfect crispy egg with crispy edges for with the rice (with chili oil!).

In short, plenty of options. Keep it up and stay healthy!