Can Carrots really make you see better?

Question

Can Carrots really help you see better?

Answer 1

They have Vitamin 'A' and A is good for your eyes adjust to going from light to dark or vice versa. It also nuetralizes free radicals (things that harm us) in your body. A is a fat-soluble vitamin and it's stored in fat, if you get to much it can be harmful to your liver. Also over consumption is known to cause fractures in post-menopausal women.

Women should get about 800mcg daily
Men should get about a 1000mcg daily

Good sources, besides carrots:

Top sources of beta-carotene include:
Beef liver
Egg yolk
Cheddar cheese
Fortified milk
Sweet potato
Carrots
Pumpkin
Cantaloupe
Broccoli
Apricots
Spinach and collard greens

One carrot has the following nutrients in it:
a carrot. A carrot has many wonderful phytochemicals. A large carrot can have 4 mg of vitamin C; 13 mcg folate;

8666 IU vitamin A;

.5 mg of vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol); 10 mcg of vitamin K; 4157 mcg of Beta Carotene; 2028 mcg of Alpha Carotene; 1.4 mcg of lycopene; and 149 mcg of lutein + zeaxanthin.

Answer 2

Carrots are high in vitamins beta-carrotein and other healthy nutrients and anit-oxidants. beta-carrotein plays an important role in vision.

This is also a bit of urban myth because in WWII the Brits had radar but the Nazi's had not developed it yet. So, when Brit pilots were captured and asked how they were able to see in the dark they told the Nazi's that they were fed lots of carrots.

Answer 3

When I was little my mom told me if I ate carrots I would have better vision. So I ate carrots like crazy hoping for super hero amazing vision. My precription is so bad right now (negative 4.25) that I'd have to call BS on that. BUT someone told me that they help you see better in the dark and I gotta say in the dark I can see better than in the light. I freak my hubby out I can poke him on the end of his nose in pitch black. Carrot power may have given me super hero in the dark sight.

Answer 4

Carrots are high in vitamin A and vitamin A is good for preventing night blindness(adjusting to sudden light). So, yeah, they can make you see better.

Answer 5

The fact that carrots help your eye sight is actually only a myth. I saw it on that health show, "What's Good For You?" They tested it, by making the poor guy eat like 15kg of carrots, and it didn't help at all.

Answer 6

Maybe. When I lost my sight in one eye, my ex-mother in law said I needed to eat more carrots and beef. I asked my neurologist and he said carrots had nothing to do with it. But eating more carrots never hurts!

Not unless your skin starts turning orange.

Answer 7

They might, but I heard that it was actually a World War 2 myth made up by the British.

Answer 8

They are high in beta caratine which is good for eyesight.

Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

yes