How Many Carrots Do You Need To Eat To Turn Orange?

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About a week ago I wrote a post called "Strange But Quite True Facts". In this post was a fact stating that eating too many carrots could turn your skin orange. In the comments a few people mentioned that it would be interesting to know how many carrots you needed to eat to turn orange. Well, I am back with an answer. To turn your skin a yellowish-orange and adult would have to eat at least 10 large carrots per day over a period of two weeks. In other words, about 51 micrograms of beta-carotene per day, keeping in mind that each carrot contains between 5 to 6 micrograms of bête-carotene. If you are a person who eats foods high in bête-carotene such as carrots and sweet potatoes you run the risk of developing carotenemia. This is a harmless condition that disappears when you stop eating as much beta-carotenes. So, now you know not to eat 10 or more carrots per day.