Mixed Race Children and Skin Tones, Could the Yellow Be from Turmeric?

People with Asian ancestery can and usually do have yellow undertones. This is not unusual. If you have the benefit of meeting a wider cross section of people from this part of the world, you would see yellow skin undertones are not unusual among people from places like Persia, Indonesia, India, Malaysia and so on... They (we) do not all have very dark skin, nor do they all have "tan" skin.

I have Filipino ancestry and family members range from very dark brown to high yellow in skin tone. Pretty common.

If that were the case wouldn't you ALL be yellow?

What you are describing doesn't sound particularly unusual as a skin tone... I mean are you saying they are the actual crayon box color yellow, or that they are tan with yellow (instead of pink or olive) undertones?

There is a great book for African American children called "Shades of Black" about all the wonderful skin colors and hair textures that are "black." Sounds like you would do well to embrace a similar spectrum in your personal conceptions of skin color.

My kids are a mix of my European cocktail and my husband's Iraqi blood. They are all different hues, but I really doubt it has any relation to food. Just different phenotypes coming through.

It could be from someone else in the family. For example I have blonde hair and both my parents have dark brown hair, but I have an aunt, and a grandfather with blonde hair

I doubt it is the Tumeric. At one point I was taking 9 capsules a day to increase breastmilk but I never turned yellow. But I'm glad you checked out the liver possibility.

My cousin is half Indian and half Polish which is an interesting mix. She got her mom's Indian skin tone (but a bit lighter) and black/dark brown eye hair and eye color. Her dad has blue eyes and light brown hair so her kids may some interesting recessives. But her features are a mix of both parents and her hair texture is fine and silky like the Polish side. You just never know what you will get. My kids are also a blend of both sides of the family but not the same blend.

Thats a very interesting question, My husband will turn orange from drinking carrot juice so i know there is at least one food that will do it. However, turmeric is what makes mustard yellow so you figure it would be present in some fast food lovers too. My brother and his wife are hare krishnas which is a sect of Hindu, which is Indian. They eat at their temple all the time and everything has turmeric in it. Ive never really noticed them being yellow.

I have a yellowish cast to my skin though, i think its called "olive", i am pale but i tan well. I think my olive tint comes from my native american heritage.

I don't know about turmeric, but my nieces turned yellow/orange when my well-intentioned SIL fed them large amounts of pumpkin!

I'm thinking undertones too, my sister and I are obviously the exact same mix, and I have very yellow undertones, while hers are more pink.

I'm white and my son's father's a very dark African-American and my son is a gorgeous golden brown. I call him my golden boy!

People have 3 kind of undertones to their skin regardless of race/ethnicity. There is pink/blue (cool), yellow/red (warm) and neutral. I'm a pink tone, husband is warm tone... 1st born is neutral and 2nd seems to be a cool like me.