How many carrots is too many?

jgnatca wrote: »

@livingleanlivingclean I think I spotted your problem. Dark leafy greens are also high in vitamin A.

http://www.nutristrategy.com/nutrition/vitamina.htm

My vitamin a levels are on the low side of fine. Beta carotene on the other hand is extremely excessive. I think I have an issue converting beta carotene to vit a....

(and the majority of my green veg was zucchini, celery and asparagus. I can't eat a lot of broccoli and don't really eat spinach or kale)

People have already covered the correct answers. I just wanted to chime in that this post reminded me of the episode of House when the guy came to the ER bright orange and House messed with him instead of just telling him to cut back on the carrots. Good times!

hazcad wrote: »

I find it rather odd that if you eat too many carrots it can turn your skin orange when carrots were originally purple....

Carrots have always come in a variety of colors, but the purple carrots were once more popular than other colors and more common. Yellow and white carrots are not some kind of new invention, they developed on their own in the wild. Orange carrots were created as a mutation of other breeds more frequently once people realized they taste a million times better than the purple variety. The very thing that turned the carrots orange is what turns you orange if you have too much of it. The same thing that turns carrots orange also turns squash, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, orange peppers and other orange foods orange. Different colored foods have slightly different chemical makeups even if they come from the same plant. If this weren't the case, why even bother making different varieties?

AFGP11 wrote: »

People have already covered the correct answers. I just wanted to chime in that this post reminded me of the episode of House when the guy came to the ER bright orange and House messed with him instead of just telling him to cut back on the carrots. Good times!

That show was great. Really miss it!

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.

Some years back, the dye from the Walmart brand crystal light raspberry flavor would turn your poop red.

Had a scare the first time