Fruits and Vegetables Are Healthy and Nutritious. Do They Also Make You Beautiful?

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
~ Lewis Grizzard

Fruits and vegetables come in a plethora of vivid colors and are a source of numerous vitamins, minerals, and natural substances that may help protect against chronic diseases. They are a natural source of energy and they taste good! The benefits of fruits and vegetables are well documented, but it turns out it gets even better. Eating fruits and vegetables can make you hot!

A recent study finds that eating produce heightens red and yellow skin tones which increases perceived attractiveness (the study was conducted primarily on white people). The organic pigments (carotenoids)  that give color to fruits and vegetables also provide color to human skin when consumed. The study showed that redder or yellower skin caused by produce consumption were rated as more attractive than subjects who consumed less produce.



The study: You Are What You Eat: Within-Subject Increases in Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Confer Beneficial Skin-Color Changes

Note: The researches intend to expand the study with non-white people but expect the results will be the same.

Something else I learned: The most abundant carotenoids in the US diet are beta-carotene, alpha-carotene, gamma-carotene, lycopene, lutein, beta-crpytoxanthin, zeaxanthin, and astaxanthin.