if you were to eat lots of carrots all the time could you turn orange?

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I read somewhere that if you were to eat tons of carrots you could potentially turn orange! could a high amount be lethal?

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Canthaxanthin and carotenes too much can make you have an orange color-yes. Only Vitamin A (Palmitate, etc)can-carrots vitamin A is from Beta-carotene and the body can fight this "too much A occurence off. Okay, okay...someone told me to add this...over 10,000 i.u.s of Vitamin A NOT Beta Carotene, is deleterious to your health-daily Beta Carotene can be converted into other things and expelled if it detects too much vitamin A, Vitamin A, stays Vitamin A, Beta Carotene can be converted...there Very lethal, by the way....so can selenium

well u would certainly have to eat ALOT, but it can cause ur skin pigment to appear orange, no danger tho....

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