London - A five-year-old British girl has turned orange after over-imbibing Sunny Delight, one of Britain's most popular fruit drinks whose sales are worth £150-million a year.
The child's face and hands turned orange after she drank 1,5 litres a day of the drink that contains 120 microgrammes of beta carotene.
Dr Duncan Cameron, who treated her at a North Wales hospital, said: "We tested her blood levels for Vitamin A which is derived from beta carotene and found they were very, very high."
A spokesman for Sunny Delight's makers, Procter & Gamble, said: "This child has drunk more Sunny Delight than the total amount of fluid that you would expect a child of that age to drink in a day.
"The beta carotene would change the pigmentation of the skin. It is harmless and there is no risk of toxicity although we recomend that children have a mixed diet and this includes a mixed range of drinks." - Reuters