Sweetpotatoes
dagmjohansendagdag123
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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?
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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no, you should be good eating that much sweet potato in a day...unless there's something weird about the rest of your diet.0
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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.0
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i eat like this
3 eggs, 100gram oat meal for breakfast. with a green drink0 -
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.
But do you like candy? Hmm? Case closed.0 -
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Go for it0
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let us know if you get an orange tint! That happened to my on when he was a baby...funny stuff!0
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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.0
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