The skin will turn yellow if you eat too many carrots. This is caused by eating too much carotene. If you eat too much carrots in a short period of time, the carotene in the blood will not be decomposed, which will increase the carotene content in the blood, turn the skin yellow and cause carrot disease.

Carotenemia can gradually subside within 2-3 weeks after stopping eating carrots, which has no special effect on the body and does not require special treatment.

How to eat carrots

Carrot and shrimp skin porridge

Ingredients: 1 carrot; Avocado oil 1 spoon; 2 pieces of rice; Shrimp skin 50g

Step 1: Wash shrimps and carrots, peel and cut into powder.

Step 2: put a small amount of avocado oil in a non-stick pan, add carrot powder and stir-fry for a few minutes on low heat.

Step 3: add water, cover the pot and simmer for a few minutes.

Step 4: Pour the cooked carrot soup into the soup pot, add the washed rice, and simmer for 1 hour.

Step 5: Wash the shrimps and cut them into pieces, put them into carrot and white rice porridge and cook for another half an hour.

Carrots have high nutritional value and are rich in anthocyanins, carotene, fatty oil, volatile oil, vitamins and so on. Carrots can be used to relieve the uncomfortable symptoms of children's dyspepsia, night blindness, stomachache and other diseases, effectively enhance human immunity, reduce blood sugar and blood lipid, and effectively remove intestinal free radicals, thus playing a role in detoxification. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that carrot is sweet, pungent and flat, and belongs to spleen meridian, liver meridian and lung meridian, which has the functions of strengthening spleen and regulating stomach, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, clearing away heat and toxic materials, resolving phlegm and relieving cough.

Carrots are very rich in nutritional value. Every100g of carrot contains about 0.6g of protein, 0.3g of fat, 7.6-8.3g of sugar, 0.6mg of iron and vitamin A, namely carotene1.35-17.25mg and vitamin b1.02-0.