Do bananas contain radioactive potassium

Answer 1

Bananas are relatively high in potassium, but you need 4,700 mg of potassium per day and you'd have to eat about 11 bananas every day to get that. Potatoes are higher, at about 950 mg if you eat the skin as well. This all gets a lot harder if you're on a low/no carb diet. Eat Leafy green vegetables, red meat. Use No Salt (half salt/half potassium) and take a supplement. Very few humans can get all of what they need just from food every day.

Answer 2

Bananas are high in potassium, for example, a small banana has 467 mg of. Most adults need 2000 mg of potassium a day. Eating one small banana a day will give an adult a fourth of their daily potassium.

Answer 3

Indeed, they do. In fact, any food that contains minerals that have naturally-occurring radioactive isotopes is radioactive to some degree, but bananas are more radioactive than most foods because of their high concentration of potassium. Potassium has a radioactive isotope, potassium-40, with a relatively high natural abundance of just over 0.01%.

Answer 4

yes in fact they do.. it has enough potassium to make 14 radioactive decays every second.

Answer 5

Because bananas are high in potassium, they have naturally occurring isotopes of potassium, of which potassium-40 is one.

Answer 6

The potassium content is 358 mg per 100 grams of banana

Answer 7

Yes, bananas emit a tiny amount of beta radiation due to naturally occurring radioactive potassium.

Answer 8

Yes. They are a good source of potassium.