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"Banana equivalent dose" is a misleading concept, because the body actively regulates potassium levels. It's very unlikely that somebody with healthy kidneys co
by mrob 3y ago
"Banana equivalent dose" is a misleading concept, because the body actively regulates potassium levels. It's very unlikely that somebody with healthy kidneys could give themselves hyperkalemia by eating bananas, and if they somehow did, the radiation would be the least of their concerns.
- shagie 3y agoYou would probably hit other problems with eating that many bananas before you got close to problematic levels. It's more useful for things like "living within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant for a year (0.3 µSv) is the equivalent of eating 3 bananas (0.1 µSv each)." Relevant xkcd - https://xkcd.com/radiation/ https://xkcd.com/radiation/ Note also the "Yearly dose from natural potassium in the body 390 µSv"
- kqr 3y agoIs that yearly number the mean or the median or an upper percentile?