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Almost 30 years ago, when I worked in retail, there was a couple whose kids were orange because of this.
The parents were pretty open about intentionally feeding large amounts of that kind of stuff to their kids and not concerned at all about the ramifications of having unnaturally orange children. They'd clear the shelves of all the carrot, sweet potato, and pumpkin baby foods when the kids were young and then later on they did the same with produce and canned stuff like canned carrots, pumpkin pie stuff, etc.
They never explained why they did it. I suspect there was a degree of mental illness in them both, though.
you suspect?!
There is also vitamin A overdosing that's possible. It's fat soluble so over doing it can be bad. Beyond a certain number of carrots you should switch to red bell peppers. Has carotenoids but without the vitamin A.
they just really rally wanted oompa loompas
you dropped an e