What's BED you ask? It stands for Banana Equivalent Dose which is an informal measurement of the amount of radiation in bananas. It doesn't mean much health wise since the human body is 280 times more radioactive than a banana. In both cases the radiation comes from K-40 a potassium isotope which is harmless in low doses though it has been know to fool radiation detectors examining truckloads of bananas for nuclear weapons. Who knew?
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