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Why your banana is slightly radioactive

Bananas give off a tiny bit of radiation, because they contain potassium, a nutrient your body needs. A small fraction of all potassium is naturally radioactive.

That sounds alarming, but everyone already gets some natural radiation every day, just from the world around them.

A banana adds very little. You'd have to eat about 100 bananas to get as much natural radiation as a person in the US gets in one day.

Source: epa.gov

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