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Old 25-07-2011, 04:37 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Phil Cook wrote:
Do carrots help you to see in the dark?

No. It is a myth put about by the MOI when we were using radar to detect
enemy aircraft during WWII.


Isn't the idea that carrots help you see in the dark based on the fact that
they contain (vitamin A?) which prevents night-blindness? So rather than
improving night vision, they just stop it being rubbish. Which is kind of
the same, depending on your standing point.