According to reports, a recent health survey declared that by the time winter season starts, the parents should become aware of the fact that their dear toddlers certainly face the risk of not getting the sufficient vitamin D.

However, the experts also claimed that the required vitamin D level was something which undoubtedly played an important role in the expansion and development of their bones.

Meanwhile, the survey also disclosed that almost eight out of 10 parents did not have any idea of the fact that daily vitamin D for any toddlers' was the definite nutritional need and nine out of ten toddlers failed to meet their suggested every day vitamin D nutritional ingestion.

Moreover, with the fall in the sunlight hours, the experts believed that it really became very difficult to acquire the desired Sunshine Vitamin from sunlight.

In the meantime, another research from growingupmilkinfo. com, too affirmed that African-Carribean and South Asian toddlers, also face these insufficient Vitamin D risks as their skins' augmented melanin level, which certainly made them less able to fabricate vitamin D during the sunlight exposure.

The reports also highlighted the fact, more than half of the parents admitted that that never, rarely or infrequently believed that Vitamin D was a toddler's definite nutritional requirement.

On the other hand, the experts affirmed that the most excellent source of vitamin D certainly came from UV light contact.

Though in most of the countries, which includes UK, where sunlight exposure is partial, it became very important that toddlers should start consuming vitamin D rich food supplements.

Commenting on the raised issue, Sue Stevens, a lecturer in nutrition at Nature Care College, said, "Gentle exposure to the legs and the arms and maybe the face is fine and you don't need very much. In summer, may be 10 minutes [a day] in the sun; in winter maybe half an hour".