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Vitamin D is essential for bone health, immunity, and overall well-being, but nearly half the global population has deficient levels.

Fortifying staple foods with essential vitamins and minerals is a cheap and effective way to ensure that people have access to nutrients that may be lacking in their normal diets. These efforts have countered debilitating deficiencies that lead to conditions like rickets and pellagra, and have increased health and wellbeing around the globe.

Climate-driven shifts in seasonal frost patterns raise important questions about their impact on food quality and resilience. Here, we show that a single 12-h frost event at harvest can enhance both the microbial and nutritional properties of fermented cabbage and carrots, two cold-tolerant crops widely grown in the U.S. Northeast. Using microbial amplicon and metagenomic…