While many a dietitian espouses the benefits of “eating the rainbow” or filling your diet with a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables to maximize nutrients, some of those same items can paint the palette of your skin.

Load up too much on certain foods and you might notice a startling difference in the mirror.

Read on for the colors your skin can change naturally — and which foods are likely to be the culprit.

Orange

Your s kin can take on a pumpkin-like tint when you consume a diet rich in beta-carotene , a natural pigment or carotenoid.

The molecular makeup of beta-carotene absorbs light in the blue spectrum, reflecting orange light to our eyes — a condition called carotenemia.

Beta carotene is present not only in carrots but also in other fruits and vegetables, including swe

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