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No, the banana is radioactive from potassium-40, which your absorbing and spreading throughout your body.

However, you also excrete potassium making the Banana equivalent meaningless as it's calculated by assuming you kept that potassium for 50 years which simply does not happen. AKA you would end up with less than 365 Banana equivalent doses by eating 1 banana a day for 1 year. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose)



PS: Due to homeostasis you generally get less than 1/500th Banana equivelent dose from eating a Banana.


Right, forgot about that part. Thanks.




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