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How many times have you been told to eat your carrots to help your eyes? Its an axiom that parents, grandparents, teachers, and pediatricians have passed down to children for ages. Well, it turns out that carrots arent going to magically improve your eyesight or make you more able to see at night any more than drinking milk is going to give you the ability to fly (which would be very cool, to be honest).

There is, of course, scientific data to back up that if you have a vitamin A deficiency (which can cause loss of eyesight) then eating carrots will help restore your vision, but thats not going to work for anyone who isnt suffering from a lack of the vitamin in their system. And its not the only fruit or vegetable to help in this situation. You could eat a carrot to boost your vitamin A levels Carrots have high amounts of beta-Carotene but you could also eat sweet potatoes, dark leafy greens, winter squashes, lettuce, dried apricots, cantaloupe, bell peppers, fish, liver, and tropical fruits to boost your vitamin A. Either way, youre not seeing in the dark.

So where did the idea that carrots would improve your vision or give you night vision even come from? Fake news World War II propaganda. The British had developed an onboard radar system which allowed their fighter pilots to spot German planes coming in for bombing raids under the cover of night. When the Brits were pushed on how they were able to shoot down the aircraft, they said it was because they were feeding their fighter aces carrots which it improved their night vision to X-Men like levels. Seriously, well except for the X-Men part.

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The Fascinating Origins Of The 'Carrots Give You Night Vision' Myth Have Been Revealed - UPROXX

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