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Skin color may affect vitamin D production
The color of your skin is determined by a pigment called melanin.

People with darker skin typically have more melanin than people with lighter skin. What’s more, their melanin pigments are also larger and darker.

Melanin helps protect the skin against damage from excess sunlight. It acts as a natural sunscreen and absorbs the sun’s UV rays to defend against sunburn and skin cancers.

However, that creates a big dilemma because darker-skinned people need to spend longer in the sun than lighter-skinned people to produce the same amount of vitamin D. This is a major reason why darker-skinned people have a higher risk of deficiency.

For that reason, if you have dark skin, you may need to spend a bit more time in the sun to get your daily dose of vitamin D.