Eating Too Much Fruit Will Change the Color of Your Skin
In Japan, it’s sometimes said that eating too many satsuma (mikan) fruits will turn your skin yellow. “Mezamashi TV” recently decided to test to see if the saying had some truth to it:
They have a man and a woman each eat 10 fruits. At the end of the test, the woman’s skin looks about the same as when she started, but the man’s hand has taken on a sort of yellowish tone (I can’t really see it, but they claim it is). An expert says this is entirely possible, as the fruit contains a lot of beta-cryptoxanthin. If that guy’s hand looks more yellow, it’s probably because the fat cells in his hand are chock full of beta-cryptoxanthin.
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