Question of the Week - From the Naked Scientists   /     Can purple carrots turn your skin purple? - Naked Scientists Question of the Week 19.04.01

Description

We received this question from Aidan, "Consuming orange carrots in high excess can turn your skin orange, because of the beta-carotene. What about purple carrots?" Jack Tavener and Katie Haylor have been crunching through some research to get to the root of this question. If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review. Plus, for more podcasts by The Naked Scientists head to nakedscientists.com/podcasts.

Summary

We received this question from Aidan, "Consuming orange carrots in high excess can turn your skin orange, because of the beta-carotene. What about purple carrots?" Jack Tavener and Katie Haylor have been crunching through some research to get to the roo

Subtitle
We received this question from Aidan, "Consuming orange carrots in high excess can turn your skin orange, because of the beta-carotene. What about purple carrots?" Jack Tavener and Katie Haylor have been crunching through some research to get to the ...
Duration
04:07
Publishing date
2019-03-31 23:00
Link
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/qotw/show/20190401/
Contributors
  Dr Chris Smith, The Naked Scientists
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Enclosures
http://nakeddiscovery.com/libsyn/Naked_Scientists_QotW_19.04.01.mp3
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