Bananas are your go to fruit which right after consumption provides you with immense energy and makes you feel full. Bananas are rich in nutrients like magnesium, vitamin C, vitamin B and dietary fiber. It also helps in weight management and soothing muscle cramps. Remember how mothers tell their girls to have a banana when they are experiencing muscle cramps during their cycle? Well, now you know!
With all these benefits you might consider eating bananas in your breakfast but here’s the catch, will you still consider it if you gotta know they are radioactive?
Yes, Bananas are slightly radioactive. Bananas contain high amounts of potassium, a very important mineral for conducting various bodily functions. In specific, bananas contain Potassium-40 which is an isotope is a naturally occurring form of potassium, and it is unstable. It undergoes radioactive decay at a very slow rate, emitting radiation in the process. However, K-40 has a very long half-life (about 1.25 billion years), meaning it decays very slowly. A banana contains about 450 mg of potassium, and when eaten exposes the consumer to about 0.01 mrem due to its K-40 content. And therefore, it is not health-threatening.
In short, if you are thinking that eating bananas is not healthier anymore, you are wrong, they still are, they won’t affect your health at all. Not just bananas there are many fruits and veggies like potatoes, spinach, and Brazilian nuts which are equally radioactive but none of them is unsafe to eat.
