• IzzyScissor@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      Ironically though, your body doesn’t really store excess potassium. When you eat a banana, you’re only replacing a banana’s worth of potassium within your body, so it ends up being largely net 0 in terms of a radiation dose, even though it’s radioactive.

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        12 hours ago

        But you could exchange non-radioactive isotopes for the radioactive ones bananas are rich in, right?