carrots and vision?

Question

Does eating carrots improve your vision?

Answer 1

Carrots won't improve eyesight for someone eating normal healthy food. However, carrots are rich in beta carotene, which is converted into Vitamin A in the body. Vitamin A is important in maintaining normal vision, and worldwide, Vitamin A deficiency is a leading cause of blindness. Therefore in the developing world, where deficiency of vitamin A is possible, eating carrots may be good advice.

In western developed world vitamin deficiencies are relatively rare. Therefore eating more carrots will not provide any additional vision benefit if the daily dietary vitamin intake is normal.

Answer 2

It is supposed to cure vitamin A deficiency, whose symptoms can include night blindness. It won't make vision improve above or beyond correcting a vitamin A deficiency problem. Most vision problems are not vitamin A deficiency, and eating carrots won't cause any change for those. In World War II the RAF made the discovery that red light did not disrupt night vision. So using things like red googles and red lights in briefing rooms allowed their pilots' eyes to dark adapt before taking off.

Answer 3

No. Betacarotene supports healthy vision, and should be included in your diet. That doesn't just come from carrots, but from other vegetables.
It will help you maintain healthy vision, but it's not a cure for vision problems or for use as a PRN (as needed) boost for times you want to see in the dark. Sorry.

Answer 4

I don't know but I eat carrots all the time and have 20/20 vision.

Answer 5

The beta-carotene in carrots helps you maintain healthy vision, but it cannot improve the vision you have.

Answer 6

Yes. So does Spinach.

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Answer 7

yes they are supposed to improve night vision because of the minerals and beta carotene. check on the web there are a lot of pages dealing with this.

Answer 8

no blueberries soes carrots are for your teeth