Carotene and brown skin
Carrots cost less than a Caribbean beach vacation. So if you just want a brown skin, you can safely eat carrots. Does that actually work? Can you actually feed yourself with carrots - that is, with the carotene contained in the root vegetables - for a brown skin?
What you need:
- Carrots or carrots or other yellow and red foods (vegetables, fruits)
This is how carotene ensures brown skin
- The name carotene comes from the Latin word "carota" = carrot. Carotene is not only found in carrots or carrots, but also in other colored roots, leaves or fruits. The yellow and red dyes are found in pumpkins, persimmons, apricots, mangoes, sea buckthorn and many other yellow or red fruits. But carotenes are also found in dark green vegetables such as spinach, cress or broccoli, as well as in peppers and tomatoes.
- Human beings primarily ingest alpha-carotene and beta-carotene through their food. If you consume too much carotene, you are storing it body the too much in yours skin. This will show up in a discoloration of your skin. You get a "brown" skin, that is usually yellowish or orange. The skin - our largest organ - is also a storage organ. This skin discoloration even has a name: carotenemia or carrot jaundice.
- You will develop carrot jaundice if you drink about a quart of carrot juice a day.
Useful additional knowledge - orange root vegetables as a browning agent
- The discoloration of the skin, however, is usually not the nice, crispy suntan that the sun brings and that most people want, but rather a yellow or brown color. Orange tone and can have almost the opposite effect: You look sick and not dynamic, energetic, sporty and so well-heeled that you can afford a sun vacation - at least that is what brown skin is commonly about signals.
- Carotene also has a protective, beneficial effect on the cells. However, whether carotene has an anti-cancer effect is controversial.
- Discolored skin does not require treatment, it is merely the result of the intake of carotene. The discoloration will go away on its own if you avoid the foods mentioned above. Since the skin renews itself quickly, the discoloration goes away again quite quickly - at different speeds depending on predisposition. Experience has shown that it does not last for weeks, but only for a few days.
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