[noneother]

Does a large quantity in your diet make you tan quicker? Does it contribute more so to freckles/age spots? And makes your skin look dirtier?

I ask this because whenever I have a scab and eat foods with high dose of soy sauce in them the healed skin is darker.

[chocolate//]

i don't think so.. i use a ton of it in my food but i'm pretty pale. i also don't have freckles or age spots.

[~ BunnyliciouS ~]

^ Yup, same here

I eat lots Chinese food, it uses lots of soy sauce.

probably just you.

Maybe sunblocks helps.

[Will_Yu]

i don't understand, how would soy sauce make you darker? What does it contain that makes your skin absorb it?

[sushiwhore]

i don't understand, how would soy sauce make you darker? What does it contain that makes your skin absorb it?

i wish i knew its liek if youeat a ton of carrots will you turn orange ? O_O

[amarynthis]

I don't think so.....

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[dazzleanddestroy]

Nah, I eat a lot of food with soy sauce, and i'm pale..

[STR8UPGSTATUS]

I read somewhere it makes scars look darker... Or something like that.
Don't know if it's true though.

[noneother]

Ok it may be just me. But I do notice healed scars become darker if I eat soy sauce.

[thequondam]

I've been eating it all my life.
My family has been eating it all our lives.
But, we're still so fair -____-

[beckii]

the colour of ur skin has got sth to do with the amount of melanin under the skin...nd i dont think soy sauce has that...so i dun think it affects??

[snowberry]

i wish i knew its liek if youeat a ton of carrots will you turn orange ? O_O

yeah i heard on the radio, about a girl who ate nothing but carrots for a month or two and turned orange.... Its some skin condition...

[zoex.*]

i dont think it has anything to do with it.
i love soy sauce... but i'm still so pale -__-
my mom used to like to scare me by saying i'd turn black if i had too much of it =p

[mtrgl7]

Old wives' tale that soy sauce darkens fresh scars. I believe it though.
Once I had a hockey stick slammed in my face in a match and it left two deep scars near my left eye. My mum forbade me from ANY food dark in colour. So basically I lived on real bland and light coloured food for two weeks. I didn't want to take any risks. True enough, my scars are almost non-existant.

And yup carrots and oranges contain beta carotene. It's good but too much of it isn't, and it does colour your skin if you take too much.

[akira53]

i don't understand, how would soy sauce make you darker? What does it contain that makes your skin absorb it?

yeah I don't see how it'll have any effect on your skin...but it's not the best for your health considering it's high sodium content

[sushiwhore]

my mom once told me ( this is TOTALLY off topic but realted to scars ><)


that if you had an open wound then eat shirmp / beef / seafood


when it heals it will be lik e a bubble =_=


O_O

[lalalalovesong]

i dont think it has anything to do with it.
i love soy sauce... but i'm still so pale -__-
my mom used to like to scare me by saying i'd turn black if i had too much of it =p

thats racist!

[sushiwhore]

thats racist!

i dion thtink she means black as in african american i think she menant the tone of her skin to be as black as soy sauce O_O

[tontamoo]

This reminds me of a scene from the movie Saving Face. (GREAT movie) The mom is eating dinner at her Asian-American daughter's house and the daughter's black friend joins them for dinner. The black guy unknowingly insults the mom's cooking by dousing everything in his bowl with soy sauce. The mom takes the soy sauce away from her daughter's side of the table and puts it closer to the black friend. The mom says to her daughter in Chinese and under her breath, "I shouldn't eat too much soy sauce, otherwise I'll dye my baby black. It's too late for him anyway." Hahaha. It's so completely false and inappropriate, but the line delivery was perfect.

Anyway, I don't think it holds true at all. Why not try an experiment on yourself to be sure? Next time you have a scar, don't eat so much soy sauce and see if it really makes a difference.