BUGS Bunny eat your heart out.
A London street looked likely to suffer a massive overdose of vitamin A this week after 32 tonnes of carrots were dumped as what turned out to be part of an art installation.
The mystery mound of vegetables appeared on a road within the University of London campus, with locals taking to social media with photos (pictured) and questions about the humongous heap.
A spokesperson for the university's Goldsmiths Art College eventually confirmed that the produce pile was actually an exhibit titled "Grounding" by Master of Fine Arts student Rafael Perez Evans.
"Rafael has arranged for the carrots to be removed at the end of the exhibition and donated to animals," he said, with the installation aiming to raise awareness of food waste.
However to help the industry out, the scientific team here at Pharmacy Daily world headquarters has also done some analysis of the incident.
One large carrot contains six milligrams of beta carotene, which converts to 1,000 micrograms of vitamin A - meaning the roughly 500,000 carrots dumped on the street equates to about 16,000 100-packs of a typical 10,000 IU vitamin A softgel supplement.
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