Fact-check: “Eating carrots improves your eyesight”
Verdict: Misleading (85% confidence)
The claim is true in one narrow condition — if someone has a vitamin A deficiency, eating carrots (which supply beta-carotene, a vitamin A precursor) can help restore normal visual function, particularly night vision. But as a general statement for the average well-nourished person, it's false: the U.S. National Eye Institute explicitly calls this a myth, and multiple clinical and institutional sources confirm that extra carrots do not improve eyesight beyond normal levels when vitamin A needs…
This fact-check was conducted by SpinkillerAI, a non-partisan AI-powered accountability platform.
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