AI Search Summary
This follow-up video reports the creator’s month-long experiment drinking carotenoid-rich vegetable soup to see whether it changed his skin tone toward a healthier golden glow.
- Main question: Can drinking a veggie soup change your skin tone?
- Short answer / core takeaway: After a month of daily carotenoid soup, the creator reports visible movement from a pinkish hue toward a more yellow-orange tone, supported by daily photos and one friend’s unsolicited comment.
- Evidence type: Personal self-experiment based on prior carotenoid-skin-color research and recipe development.
- Search topics: carotenoid soup experiment, veggie tan, skin tone from diet, beta-carotene skin color, lycopene skin, healthy glow.
Common Search Questions
What was the experiment?
The creator drank a daily mug of carotenoid-rich vegetable soup for one month and documented skin changes with pictures.
What ingredients or nutrients were involved?
The experiment builds on carotenoids from vegetables like carrots and tomatoes, especially compounds such as beta-carotene and lycopene.
What result did the creator report?
He says a friend noticed his skin looked more tan, healthy, or glowing, and that comparison photos showed a shift from pinkish toward yellow-orange.
Was this a controlled clinical trial?
No. This was a personal self-experiment, useful for demonstration but not proof that everyone will get the same result.
Key Takeaways
- Carotenoid-rich foods can plausibly alter skin tone over time.
- The creator used a recipe designed to improve carotenoid bioavailability.
- Daily photos were used to track visible changes.
- The page links back to source drafts and the soup recipe rather than listing new studies.
Transcript
One month of carotenoid soup
I drank this soup every day for the last month to try and change my skin tone and give myself a healthy veggie tan.
And get this, this was perfect. Yesterday, a good friend of mine who I hadn’t seen in around a month asked me if I was using some sort of new skincare product, like some sort of bronzer.
She said my skin was looking sort of like I was more tan, but also just more healthy and glowing.
Background science
That’s one opinion, but I’ve been taking pictures every day so I can show you guys.
For those of you just tuning in, we spent several videos last month looking at the science behind how carotenoids in vegetables like carrots and tomatoes can actually make their way out through your sweat glands and into your skin, changing the color in a way that many different studies have shown is consistently rated as more attractive than an equivalent suntan.
Recipe and preparation
We covered how there are ways of preparing these veggies to make those carotenoids better absorbed, culminating in this tasty soup recipe, which I’ve been making big batches of every couple of weeks and then freezing them in mason jars.
Each morning, I’ve been heating up a nice little mason jar in the microwave and blending it with a scoop of whey protein to even out those macros.
Result and next step
The result is change. They’re a bit serial-killer-y, but you can definitely see how I’ve gone from more of a pinkish hue toward more of a yellowish orange.
What do you think? Better looking, worse? Either way, I do it for science.
Should I keep going and see how big of a shift we can get? Would you do it? Let me know down below.
Additional Notes
Caption context
The caption says the creator will keep going for another month if more than 100 comments say he should.
Keywords and topics
- Carotenoid soup
- Skin tone experiment
- Veggie tan
- Beta-carotene
- Lycopene
- Whey protein