• Question: Do carrots actually affect your eyesight?

    Asked by Ciara :) to Min, Marcello, Katie, Israel, Dheeraj, Aoife on 19 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by hawk44bat.
    • Photo: Aoife McHugh

      Aoife McHugh answered on 19 Nov 2019:

      Carrots contain high levels of beta-carotene. We need beta-carotene for seeing at night, and seeing out wide from our eyes (peripheral vision). Beta-carotene is also converted to vitamin A in our bodies. Vitamin A helps protect the surface of they eyes and helps with night time vision too. There are other sources of beta-carotene including sweet potato and red and yellow peppers.But carrots are the most well known source.

    • Photo: Dheeraj Rathore

      Dheeraj Rathore answered on 19 Nov 2019:

      Carrots are rich source of vitamin A, a nutrient essential for good vision. Eating carrots or consuming carrot juice will provide you with the small amount of vitamin A that you need for good vision and healthy eyes, but its not limited to carrots. You can also get Vitamin A from other foods like milk, cheese, egg.

    • Photo: Min Yap

      Min Yap answered on 19 Nov 2019:

      Yes they contain beta-carotene that helps us in the development and maintenance of good eye sight.

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