Nutrition

Up until recently vitamin D was an underdog, always hiding in the shadows of calcium, the ‘likeable’ micronutrient. But finally, vitamin D has become the new ‘it’ micronutrient, for a very good reason.

A vitamin is an organic compound that our body needs in small amounts for normal and effective metabolic functioning. Most vitamins are essential, as our body can’t make them itself, so we need to get them from our diet and preferably from a variety of foods.