Can carrots turn you orange?

Question

I've been eating a lot of carrots lately, and I've noticed that under certain lighting, my skin looks BRIGHT ORANGE when compared to others. In sunlight it is difficult to see, but when I'm indoors I have an odd orange-ish glow. I eat about a cup of carrots daily.. but with my low body weight (98 pounds) is this too much? Is it bad to eat so many carrots?

Answer 1

Yes, eating too many carrots can turn you orange. The beta-carotenein them is what does it.
Careful here, you may also be getting too much vitamin A. Better back off from the carrots.

Tanning salons, also, turn some people orange rather than tan, but they don't seem to notice.

Answer 2

Carrots Turn You Orange

Answer 3

It can happen, but usually to babies. I turned orange when I was little. A cup of carrots a day doesn't sound like a lot. You might want to get checked out by a doctor to be sure. Or you could just stop eating carrots for a week or two and see if your skin goes back to normal.

Answer 4

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Can carrots turn you orange?
I've been eating a lot of carrots lately, and I've noticed that under certain lighting, my skin looks BRIGHT ORANGE when compared to others. In sunlight it is difficult to see, but when I'm indoors I have an odd orange-ish glow. I eat about a cup of carrots daily.. but with my low body...

Answer 5

YES, and you aren't the only one! I remember seeing an interview with Danny Bonaduce where he said Susan Dey started turning orange from eating so many carrots (anorexia/bulimia thing going on) during filming of Patridge Family back in the '70s. Here's a snapshot of it:

"During the run of The Partridge Family, Dey had difficulties coping with fame, and she suffered both bulimia and anorexia. Her weight dropped to just 92 pounds, and she stopped menstruating. Her fingers occasionally turned orange from eating almost nothing but carrots. In 1971, during the program's second season, she wrote an article for a teen magazine titled, "How I Licked My Weight Problem," but the article was about how she had successfully lost weight. Eating disorders were not yet common knowledge, so when viewers worried about Dey's skinniness, they often wrote in wondering whether she had some form of cancer or wasting disease. She has said it was only when Partridge Danny Bonaduce saw her in a bikini and grimaced, "You look disgusting," that she knew she had a problem."

Maybe not a bad color scheme for Halloween, but not especially attractive on for the rest of the year...on Earth.

You SURE there isn't something else going on? Carrots aren't bad, but bulimia/anorexia is. Perhaps this is a symptom, and not the whole issue.

Answer 6

no carrots do not make you orange but it might be from you eating so many at a time even though people tell you that eating veggtables are good for you which is true but you should never eat alot of any thing

Answer 7

yes if you do eat to many carrots you can turn orange I would stop eating the carrots until the orange tinge in your skin leaves and then if you go back to eating carrots eat less than what you have been eating.

Answer 8

Yes! the carotine can cause a slight change in your skin pigmentation but only because of high doses. Anyway, I wouldn't worry too much, just think about those that eat too many blueberries LOL Seriously, you need to cut down on the carrots as you can overdose on vitamins.

Answer 9

Yes it can but you have to eat loads also Sunny D orange Juie can turn you orange but on like around you jaw line type of thing

Answer 10

Yes carrots can cause your body to have an orange color. You need to balance your diet and not eat one vegetable. I am not sure how old you are..but 98 lbs sounds very unhealthy.