http://whfoods.org/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=21
Oh, I love my carrots. Love em'.
I'd say I probably have them about 6x a week. I have them roasted with string beans - delish. I have them shreded - raw - in salads, most days of the week. I buy these little petite ones that I eat raw as part of a veggie plate and then dip them in salsa. I eat them steamed along with my cauliflower, cooked in a little chicken broth.
And no, eating so many of them won't turn your skin orange. This came to me a couple of weeks ago in an e mail, from the very same website:
No, eating carrots cannot turn your hair or skin orange. The substances in carrots that provide them with their orange color are called carotenoids. There are more than a dozen different carotenoids found in carrots, and the orange carrots we're familiar with in the grocery store are especially dependent on one particular carotenoid, beta-carotene, for their color.
Because beta-carotene is fat-soluble, excesses of this carotenoid can end up being stored in tissue, including our skin. (By the way, unless the food you eat contains some fat, you won't be absorbing as much beta-carotene from your food to begin with.) However, it takes a good bit of beta-carotene from food as well as some time before you can see a skin change caused by diet. In studies on skin accumulation of beta-carotene, about 51 grams of beta-carotene per day for up to two weeks are required before skin changes become visible. Since there are only five to six milligrams of beta-carotene in one carrot, we're talking about nine to ten carrots per day as the amount required, as evidenced in most studies, to see skin changes.