rheanna

Eating HUGE amounts of carrots can turn the skin orange because of the beta-carotene which our bodies use to produce vitamin A! I've never heard of anyone turning orange from eating oranges. Maybe because carrots are so cheap and other orange foods such as pumpkins, sweet potatoes, mangoes, apricots, and oranges are too expensive to eat in such quantities that our skins would react from too much beta-carotene. And artificial food dyes are unlikely to turn the skin strange colors (again, maybe beccause we consume insufficient quantities?), although they are certainly doing strange things to our body as it tries to separate out the good nutrition from the artificial stuff.

--Rheanna