Keep Calm and Carrot On - The lie about carrots and night vision

Let's be clear - carrots are still very good for you! Eat your vegetables, kids. But the only way they could actually improve your vision is if you were severely Vitamin A deficient to begin with (which is incredibly unlikely). And even then, there are better vegetables than carrots: Dietary sources of lutein and zeaxanthin carotenoids and their role in eye health by El-Sayed M Abdel-Aal, Humayoun Akhtar, Khalid Zaheer, and Rashida Ali (2013) And of course check out the World Carrot Museum - sadly no longer updating, but still delightful: www.carrotmuseum.co.uk