Consuming excessive amounts of carrots can legitimately turn your skin bright orange, a medical condition officially known as carotenemia that primarily affects the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet.

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Consuming excessive amounts of carrots can legitimately turn your skin bright orange, a medical condition officially known as carotenemia that primarily affects the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet. Beta-carotene is the vibrant pigment that gives the vegetable its color, and when you eat too much of it, the excess compound bypasses your liver and begins accumulating directly in your epidermal layer. It is a completely harmless condition that resolves itself once you stop grazing on root vegetables like an unsupervised rabbit with a grocery store gift card. Still, it is absolutely hilarious that trying slightly too hard to eat a healthy diet can result in you inadvertently cosplaying as an irradiated traffic cone