# Sunny Delight turns you orange? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 17, 2000, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunny-delight-turns-you-orange/19796 "2000-05-17T21:03:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunny-delight-turns-you-orange/19796/1 "2000-05-17T21:03:44Z")
My co worker just told me about a child whose skin actually turned orange from drinking 2 liters of Sunny Delight a day. Anyone heard anything about this? I’m curious because it would seem this would be highly publicized, and lead to much in the way of legal battles. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunny-delight-turns-you-orange/19796/2 "2000-05-17T21:14:59Z")
I heard about a guy who dropped a whole bunch of acid at once to prevent it from being confiscated by the police, and he ended up his life convinced he was a glass of orange juice and people would drink him. ---
**Author:** ![Necros](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/necros/32/11086_2.png) [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunny-delight-turns-you-orange/19796/3 "2000-05-17T21:18:22Z")
Arnold said: > [@](#): > > I heard about a guy who dropped a whole bunch of acid at once to prevent it from being confiscated by the police, and he ended up his life convinced he was a glass of orange juice and people would drink him. Dude! That was my friend’s brother’s friend! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunny-delight-turns-you-orange/19796/4 "2000-05-17T21:26:04Z")
> [@](#): > > My co worker just told me about a child whose skin actually turned orange from drinking 2 liters of Sunny Delight a day. Anyone heard anything about this? Yep , I heard about this about a month ago . It didn’t happen in NY though , it happened here in Dublin , Ireland . So I think we can be sure that this is a new urban myth . ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2000, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunny-delight-turns-you-orange/19796/5 "2000-05-17T21:31:56Z")
It’s actually not uncommon for little kids to develop orange skin from ingesting too much squash, sweet potatoes, or carrots–these are some of the more popular baby foods. I doubt a lawsuit would get very far, though, since the condition is harmless and disappears when you cut back on the carotene. Two liters a day of Sunny Delite would do worse things to a kid than turn him orange, though. ---
**Author:** ![occ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@occ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/occ)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2000, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunny-delight-turns-you-orange/19796/6 "2000-05-18T16:59:41Z")
I love that bullshit story. Our drug-ed teacher swore it was true and that it happened nearby. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2000, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunny-delight-turns-you-orange/19796/7 "2000-05-18T17:17:15Z")
See Snopes’ “[The Citric Acid Trip](http://www.snopes.com/horrors/drugs/orange.htm)”. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2000, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sunny-delight-turns-you-orange/19796/8 "2000-05-18T20:09:59Z")
Oh, I heard that ridiculus LSD story a bunch of times and in different forms. Also, the old “if you dose 7 times you are legally insane” or the old “someone starred into the sun and went blind”. There’s a lot of ignorance out there. That’s why we have the SDMB. But it is taking so darn long.