If you eat too many carrots, will they turn your skin orange?

Answer 1

Actually, as crazy as it sounds, yes. If you eat a large quantity of carrots (or other foods containing beta-carotene) over extended periods of time, you can develop a saturation of carotene in the skin, which turns the skin a yellow or orange-ish color. The skin color returns to normal once the intake of beta-carotene is decreased.

Unless you eat more than a pound of carrots a day for a long time, you shouldn't have anything to worry about.

Answer 2

The answer is that it is true! However, you would have to eat over 2/3 of your % in body weight. So for a 100 lb girl, theyd have to eat around 60,000 carrots.

Answer 3

Depending on your current skin pigmintation yes, someone like me probably not. But you would have to eat tons of carrots for a prolonged period of time. Eating too many carrots can kill you.

Answer 4

It happened to a friend of mine! A doctor told her to simply stop eating so many carrots, and her skin color would return to normal - which it did.

Answer 5

your skin will have a orange tint for a day or two but it is your swet that is orange because your body stores the carrots as energy and when burt your body lets the waist go as swet

Answer 6

Yes it will. You won't turn carrot color, mind you, but your skin will take on an orangey hue due to the high beta-carotene content in the bunny food.

Answer 7

It happened to actress Susan Dey while filming The Partridge Family in the 70s. Kid you not...check it out, they've talked openly about it in the PF retrospectives.

Answer 8

I think more yellow than orange. You'd really have to eat a lot though.

Answer 9

hi

u wil turn orange cuz of deposition of carotene in skin giving the skin orange color....
also urine will turn orange.

goood luck

Answer 10

Well not really orange....more of a carrot color!