Does eating carrots help you see in the dark?

Question: Does eating carrots help you see in the dark?
- Keywords:
  carrot,
  dark,
  food,
  nutrition,
  vegetable,
  vision
Asked by daleawh to Helen, Jenni, Mark, Martin, Stu on 22 Jun 2011.
- Jenni Tilley answered on 16 Jun 2011:
  
  No – it was all a massive fib, invented by the war office in the second world war to make german pilots think that british pilots had a massive advantage over them because they’d been eating carrots.
  
  The real advantage they had was the development of something much better than human sight – Radar!
  
  http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/carrots.asp
- Helen O'Connor answered on 22 Jun 2011:
  
  “The legend arose during the Battle of Britain when the RAF circulated a story about their pilots’ carrot consumption as an attempt to cover up the discovery and effective use of radar technologies in engaging enemy planes, as well as the use of red light (which does not destroy night vision) in aircraft instruments” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrot

Question: Does eating carrots help you see in the dark?