How many carrots is too many?
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crevtion
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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.
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I'd say you're eating too many if your skin turns orange.21
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I guess if your skin starts to turn orange you might want to back off4
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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!4 -
I'd say you're eating too many if your skin turns orange.
jinx!1 -
Wow, we're a bunch of comedians all responding with the same thing haha!2
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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..?1 -
I eat 4-6 oz of carrots almost daily. I'm not orange...yet.3
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TresaAswegan 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.1 -
I knew an orange guy, he ate carrots nonstop. His weight was great.6
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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.3 -
I'd say you're eating too many if your skin turns orange.
Or they put you over your calorie goal2 -
TavistockToad 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-hand0 -
Haha thanks for the input everyone. I had four today so around 600g in total3
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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)0
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If you eat so many Seaweedies you start looking like Arnold, that's too many.
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I'd say you're eating too many if your skin turns orange.
This happened to me when I was eating too many sweet potatoes0 -
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).0
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If you listen to Mercola they give you candida and all sorts- The devils in the sugar1
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