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Yeah its safe. Your aunties nasty ass jello salad with banana's in it is giving you far more radiation exposure than those plates, because you put it inside you.
Is there something specific about bananas or is it just the go to stand in for saying that even fruit entire radiation?
It's well-enough documented that there's an informal unit of measurement for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
Ugh.. They actually use bananas for scale...
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.
But you could exchange non-radioactive isotopes for the radioactive ones bananas are rich in, right?
If you can find a source of non-radioactive potassium.