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If you have an excess of vitamin a stored in your liver, what happens when you eat beta carotene?

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Probably very little: An excess of beta carotene gives you a bright yellow skin called carotenemia, often mistaken for jaundice. It is entirely benign and disappears if yellow vegetables are cut back. This probably means that there is a natural mechanism that stops the oxidation of beta carotene to make vit a if it is not needed.

Answered 4/19/2013

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