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dagmjohansendagdag123
dagmjohansendagdag123 Posts: 4 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
So i ordered a box of 6kg organic sweet potatoes today.. Which will arrive on monday.


I am wondering if its dangerous to eat to much sweet potatoes? i see they contain a lot of betacarotene which can turn my skin orange?

Im thinking about eating like one sweet potato a day. 400grams.. AS they are really easy to eat.. And i am trying to bulk up. (Skinny guy)


Is it dangerous to eat 400grams a day?

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  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    no, you should be good eating that much sweet potato in a day...unless there's something weird about the rest of your diet.
  • PrizePopple
    PrizePopple Posts: 3,133 Member
    I'm going to be eating eat least 400g of sweet potato as part of my lunch, and I'm pretty sure I've eaten WAY more than that in a day before. I've never turned into an Oompa Loompa.
  • dagmjohansendagdag123
    dagmjohansendagdag123 Posts: 4 Member
    i eat like this

    3 eggs, 100gram oat meal for breakfast. with a green drink
  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
    PrizePopple wrote: »
    I'm going to be eating eat least 400g of sweet potato as part of my lunch, and I'm pretty sure I've eaten WAY more than that in a day before. I've never turned into an Oompa Loompa.

    :smiley: But do you like candy? Hmm? Case closed.
  • LolBroScience
    LolBroScience Posts: 4,537 Member
    No
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    Go for it :)
  • suruda
    suruda Posts: 1,233 Member
    let us know if you get an orange tint! That happened to my on when he was a baby...funny stuff! :smiley:
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    edited June 2015
    It is very, very hard to overdose on beta-carotene, and you can't eat yourself to toxic levels.
    http://www.nutri-facts.org/eng/carotenoids/beta-carotene/safety/

    To turn yellow/orange you would need to eat about ten carrots every day for two weeks (51 grams of beta-carotene a day). And the yellowed/orange skin is temporary and harmless; not evidence of toxic levels. It goes away when you stop taking in excess carotene.

    I looked up the sweet potato and it contains 18866 IU of Vitamin A which translates in to 11 mg of beta-carotene. To get the orange man look you'd need to eat five sweet potatoes a day.
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