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minus-squaretake6056@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·19 hours agoA potential “no stupid questions”-question. Will I turn pink if I eat enough Astaxanthin? Is it toxic in the amounts that would be necessary?
minus-squareALoafOfBread@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-219 hours agoI think you’d turn orange-ish - more like salmon than flamingo colored. Astaxanthin is a carotenoid like beta-carotene, so you could develop carotenemia/carotenosis which would make you look orange. https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content?contenttypeid=19&contentid=betacarotene#%3A~%3Atext=Toxicity%2Cskin+to+become+yellowish+orange. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotenosis
A potential “no stupid questions”-question.
Will I turn pink if I eat enough Astaxanthin? Is it toxic in the amounts that would be necessary?
I think you’d turn orange-ish - more like salmon than flamingo colored. Astaxanthin is a carotenoid like beta-carotene, so you could develop carotenemia/carotenosis which would make you look orange.
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content?contenttypeid=19&contentid=betacarotene#%3A~%3Atext=Toxicity%2Cskin+to+become+yellowish+orange.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotenosis