How many carrots is too many?

crevtion

Yeah I can't believe I'm asking this either. Everything in moderation of course but I just think carrots are such a good thing to munch on. But how many would be too much in your opinion. I'm getting around 35g of fibre in a day.

zyxst

I'd say you're eating too many if your skin turns orange.

mph323

I guess if your skin starts to turn orange you might want to back off

Sukisumi

I think it's only too much when you start to turn orange.

In all seriousness though, carrots are good for you, although watch the sugar in them. The fibre is great but make sure you're getting a variety of veg as well as the carrots!

mph323

zyxst wrote: »

I'd say you're eating too many if your skin turns orange.

jinx!

Sukisumi

Wow, we're a bunch of comedians all responding with the same thing haha!

Sukisumi

mph323 wrote: »

zyxst wrote: »

I'd say you're eating too many if your skin turns orange.

jinx!

Double jinx!

not_a_runner

Sukisumi wrote: »

I think it's only too much when you start to turn orange.

In all seriousness though, carrots are good for you, although watch the sugar in them. The fibre is great but make sure you're getting a variety of veg as well as the carrots!

There's less than 5 grams of sugar in 100 grams of carrot.
Seems like a pretty low sugar food to me..?

TMW2119

I eat 4-6 oz of carrots almost daily. I'm not orange...yet.

Sukisumi

TresaAswegan wrote: »

Sukisumi wrote: »

I think it's only too much when you start to turn orange.

In all seriousness though, carrots are good for you, although watch the sugar in them. The fibre is great but make sure you're getting a variety of veg as well as the carrots!

There's less than 5 grams of sugar in 100 grams of carrot.
Seems like a pretty low sugar food to me..?

It is fairly low sugar but it depends on how many carrots combined with the rest of OP'S diet where it might be something to think about. I'm not an expert! I was just trying to contribute.

markrgeary1

I knew an orange guy, he ate carrots nonstop. His weight was great.

apullum

One carrot is too many. I hate carrots.

In seriousness, though, I would not be concerned unless the fiber intake negatively affects your "bathroom routine." Too much fiber can lead to constipation or other issues. And like other people have said, you really can turn orange from too much beta carotene, but that generally isn't a serious problem and would go away after you stopped eating so many carrots.

Sukisumi

TMW2119 wrote: »

I eat 4-6 oz of carrots almost daily. I'm not orange...yet.

That's fine! I wouldn't worry about turning orange on that amount of carrot!

TavistockToad

zyxst wrote: »

I'd say you're eating too many if your skin turns orange.

Or they put you over your calorie goal

mph323

TavistockToad wrote: »

zyxst wrote: »

I'd say you're eating too many if your skin turns orange.

Or they put you over your calorie goal

Haha! I bet the two go hand-in-hand

crevtion

Haha thanks for the input everyone. I had four today so around 600g in total

powered85

I eat 200-250g of carrots almost daily. Have noticed I get a bit of a orange tinge to my skin colour other than that no ill effects but have wondered the same question. Also average over 50g of fibre a day (eating close to 3000cals)

PaulaWallaDingDong

If you eat so many Seaweedies you start looking like Arnold, that's too many.

Noreenmarie1234

zyxst wrote: »

I'd say you're eating too many if your skin turns orange.

This happened to me when I was eating too many sweet potatoes

sunfastrose

I wonder what other colors you can turn? Orange from carrots/sweet potatoes to excess as mentioned above. Blue from colloidal silver. Yellow from liver failure (jaundice).

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld

If you listen to Mercola they give you candida and all sorts- The devils in the sugar

canadianlbs

sunfastrose wrote: »

I wonder what other colors you can turn? Orange from carrots/sweet potatoes to excess as mentioned above. Blue from colloidal silver. Yellow from liver failure (jaundice).

green from broccoli \o/ finally a reason to avoid it.

**i eat it. i just never have understood why people are so excited by the fact it exists.

dewd2

Thanks for reminding me I had carrots in the fridge. Keyword here is "had".

paperpudding

sunfastrose wrote: »

I wonder what other colors you can turn? Orange from carrots/sweet potatoes to excess as mentioned above. Blue from colloidal silver. Yellow from liver failure (jaundice).

some peoples urine does turn pink on lots of beetroot

and iron supplements make your poo black.

I think one would have to eat an enormous amount of carrots before the calorie content or the sugar content became an issue - I mean, they have calories and they have sugar so it is possible - but I doubt anyone makes or breaks their weight loss progress on excessive carrots.

jgnatca

The orange colour comes from the carotene. Check the whites of your eyes. They may turn orange first.

Soulfood77

This exact question was asked on another weight loss forum I was on years ago. The answer someone gave has always stuck with me: "None of us got fat eating carrots."

I just loved it and it has always stuck with me. A bit blunt but I am a blunt type of person. What it really drills down to is if you're eating something healthy, run with it! Don't overthink it. Celebrate the fact that you are overindulging on carrots.

Have you ever seen Bugs Bunny? He's a skinny dude and he eats a ton of carrots.

crevtion

You won me over at Bugs Bunny hahahaha

livingleanlivingclean

paperpudding wrote: »

sunfastrose wrote: »

I wonder what other colors you can turn? Orange from carrots/sweet potatoes to excess as mentioned above. Blue from colloidal silver. Yellow from liver failure (jaundice).

some peoples urine does turn pink on lots of beetroot

and iron supplements make your poo black.

I think one would have to eat an enormous amount of carrots before the calorie content or the sugar content became an issue - I mean, they have calories and they have sugar so it is possible - but I doubt anyone makes or breaks their weight loss progress on excessive carrots.

I have orange tinged palms and feet despite not eating a massive amount of orange vegetables. I wanted to see if I could get them to go back to normal, so experimented by only eating green vegetables for a couple of months, my poo was green. And I still have orange palms and feet

ozgurvh

35 g is not much

lynn_glenmont

markrgeary1 wrote: »

I knew an orange guy, he ate carrots nonstop. His weight was great.

I keep seeing pictures and video of an orange guy. I don't know if it's from carrots, but he tells everybody that he's great. Huge, even, but in a good way.

paperpudding

Oh the Mr T guy??? (not allowed to mention politics on main forum )

He doesn't look healthy weight level though - perhaps it is all the carrots LOL