If you eat too many carrots, you'll turn orange. That's a fact, not something to scare your kids with (or maybe it is). Carotene is the red or yellow hydrocarbon pigment that gives carrots their characteristic cheery color, and also helps to brighten up egg yolks, sweet potatoes, and a variety of leafy vegetables. Intemperate carrot consumption will make the carotene build up in your bloodstream. Before you know it, your skin will take on a sickly yellow pallor, a grisly condition that superficially resembles jaundice.
And here I thought they were only good for making cake. This week, a look at carrots.
TTFN, Fred.
Quote of the week: "Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up." - Anne Lamott (political activist and author of several novels and works of non-fiction, 1954 - )
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