if i can turn orange from eating tomatoes, can i turn another colour from foods such as leeks?

Question: if i can turn orange from eating tomatoes, can i turn another colour from foods such as leeks?
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  colour,
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  orange,
  tomato
Asked by Emma to Saiful, Petra, Jenny, Jawwad, Iain, Bethan on 18 Jan 2017.
- Petra Cameron answered on 18 Jan 2017:
  
  You can turn orange from eating too many carrots! But you do have to eat a lot of them as normally the natural pigments are broken down/excreted. You can also turn permanently blue if you drink silver nanoparticles (very bad idea – but some people use it as a health remedy!).

Emma commented on 19 Jan 2017:

Thanks that is really helpful to me

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Question: if i can turn orange from eating tomatoes, can i turn another colour from foods such as leeks?