This Woman's Skin Turned Orange After Eating Lots of Carrot
- Health Jade
Edinburgh – Not long ago, it became a viral conversation about a woman whose skin turned orange actually caused by excessive consumption of carrots.Â
The case happened to a teenager in Edinburgh, Scotland named Dena Rendall has told how she ate so many carrots she was left resembling an Oompa Loompa with her bright orange glow.
A 21-year old used to get through up to 10 carrots, three peppers and one sweet potato daily in a bid to boost her health.Â
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But she became worried when others noticed that her skin had turned orange and assumed dodgy fake tan, a make-up disaster or jaundice was to blame.
After looking up her condition online, she self-diagnosed herself with carotenemia –  build-up in the blood of the pigment that gives carrots their colour.
Rendall, a customer experience worker, cut her carrot intake to eight a day after noticing she looked strangely similar to Roald Dahl's orange-faced characters from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
She now eats around six carrots a day - buying 6kg from Asda every week and spending £40 on vegetables in total - which she hails for leaving her with a tan 'all year round'.
Ms Rendall's love of carrots began aged 12, when she started eating around one or two per day which slowly increased to up to a mammoth 10 per day.
She said: 'When I started getting into dieting, I started eating carrots but a normal amount maybe one or two per day. Then at some point I was eating ten carrots every single day,"
'I do really love carrots and enjoy eating that many a day, but I know I don't necessarily eat in a way that's normal to other people. I've convinced myself I'm never unwell because of all the fruit and veg I eat in a day," she continued.Â
