The Walled Garden - Food Group

You don't need to get a fake tan to turn orange, you can simply eat a large amount of orange plants, such as orange carrots. The resultng condition is known as carotenemia and isn't as uncommon as you might think. It particularly rears its orangish-yellow head with infants that are often fed capious amounts of mushed carrots and a variety of vegetables that contain high amounts of carotene. Carotene is a pigment and if you consume a lot of it, the carotene levels in your body build up and your skin will turn orangish-yellow. This effect will typically first show up with your nose and/or palms showing the colour first, which is why you ocassionally see babies with orange noses.