@distilledscience: Once they get into your skin they actually PROTECT vs UV damage from the sun! We all grew up hearing “don’t eat too many carrots or you’ll turn orange.” Turns out it’s sort of true, but it doesn’t have to be a bad thing! When done to the right degree, and with the orange properly balanced with red. There’s also another pathway for them to reach the skin, via slower diffusion from the adipose tissue, blood and lymph, but it takes longer. These THREE Studies all show the same result, with people preferring the yellowish look of carotenoids vs the color change from melanin. They isolate color by using a computer program where people can adjust sliders to make the face more or less yellow or brown, in keeping with the exact shades from both of those compounds. This let them isolate the effect of color on attractiveness and perceived health without the other health benefits of fruits and vegetables influencing it. I do think that there’s a version of the “tanned” look that wasn’t properly captured in the sliders that they used, and the way they handled the black faces wasn’t perfect in that regard either, but the main result of the specific type of yellowing from the carotenoids being viewed as attractive definitely holds! 📚 STUDIES doi: 10.1080/17470218.2014.94419 doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.09.003 doi: 10.1111/ajpy.12163 #health #Science #nutrition #skinhealth

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