Food Theory: Your Bananas Are RADIOACTIVE!

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We did an episode a while back on what foods you can eat after a nuclear fallout. Consider this the sister episode to that. When I read a claim that all bananas contain radiation, I knew I had to find out more. Theorists, is your banana trying to kill you? Or is something bigger afoot? Grab a snack... but be careful what you choose.
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[@FrozenShadow007]

I knew this and, funnily enough, yesterday I was trying to find out how many bananas it would take to power a nuclear reactor. Sad to report that it isn’t possible to create nuclear fission with bananas

[@lunalasmith8351]

​@SamI have yet to try to do that...​

[@yunusnoa986]

Well nuclear fusion mostly dont use potassium

[@lunalasmith8351]

@@yunusnoa986 just you wait, I will find a way to make a banana nuke

[@firemaster-du3tn]

Interesting enough in Australia we have an ANSTO facility were there is a small reactor used for neutron scattering and about on average cause is a low powered reactor being in the reactor room for an hour your only exposed to only 4-5 bananas the interesting thing is your exposed to 8 bananas worth just sleeping with someone in the same bed.

[@lunalasmith8351]

@@firemaster-du3tn so what you're saying is that it will be easier to make a human powered nuke?

[@lacytaylor1501]

I just love how long ago everyone was just like 'you know what's a pretty color? Death'. The number of old coloring methods that are either radioactive are extremely deadly in some way is shocking. Let's not even get into the fact that human remains ( mummies) also were apparently used for a shade of brown if I recall correctly.

[@HonestMagpie]

I blame the victorians for the mummy thing. They would also regularly host "unwrapping parties" to try to unwrap the mummies. They may have also tried to ingest powdered mummy as a cure but that might just be my brain being sarcastic. Hard to say, it does sound like something the Victorians would have done, the disrespectful gits.

[@thearmyofiron]

@@HonestMagpie ingesting grounded mummies was an actual thing that happened

[@wingjaigaming8240]

I read somewhere makeup and lipsticks used to contain lead because people don't know it is toxic

[@Purriah]

YEP "Mummy Brown." A pigment which used to be commonly used to make brown paint, brown and was made from actual egyptian mummies From wikipedia: Historically, demand for mummy brown sometimes outstripped the available supply of true Egyptian mummies, leading to occasional substitution of contemporary corpses of slaves or criminals.[1] In 1564, a mummy seller in Alexandria displayed forty specimens he claimed to have manufactured himself.[1]

[@sajkaurkalra6003]

“You know what an even prettier colour is tho? Cancer.” 🫦

[@CZsWorld]

Baby MatPat is gonna haunt me.

[@hira1058]

a mil subs and no replies?gonna change that

[@raziasultana5222]

He ate too many bananas

[@InsertNoun394]

How is this comment not popular

[@atariischaotic]

Oh hello CZ didnt expect you to be here!

[@cmessymarvin4928]

I think it’d be funny to see the name of “fear of young matpat”. Matpatphobia?

[@camthepenguin]

I can’t believe I’ve been sleeping on a “banana equivalent dose” for my whole life.

[@mixstrid4621]

really

[@kvilhs211]

oh cmon people this is waiting for a bed (banana equivalent dose) pun

[@melaspink2535]

This is funny

[@mlggamer5296]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@minecraftify95]

Banana Equivalent Dose (*bed*)

[@gggalaxies4122]

8:50 Fun fact: People used to think tomatoes were poisonous because people would become ill and some would die when eating them, but it turned out the lead in the dishware and cutlery was just leeching into the tomatoes. (Edit: I wasn't trying to say that was the only reason or the main reason, and I'm very glad for the people who replied with the additional information about the tomatoes relation to the nightshade (which I didn't know beforehand), though I did know that the leaves of tomatoes are poisonous (I can thank 4 year old me for that), it also didn't come to mind about whether if they'd be eating the rest of the plant. Though I am still grateful that so many people took the time to reply to my comment and give me the rest of the story.

[@deprolled1989]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpOsoZerhdKKoLM It's finally here.

[@torazely]

Also fun fact: Thomas Jefferson was one of the few people who knew they weren't poisonous due to being an embassador to France. As president, he would often eat a tomato at dinner parties and sit back watching everyone freak out to get a doctor while he laughed.

[@benito23453]

арра

[@BeaglzRok1]

I thought it was also due to the fact that tomatoes are fruits of a nightshade plant, though I might be thinking of potatoes which are roots of a different nightshade plant. It's a big family.

[@ked49]

@Don't Read My Profile Photo to late

[@tmanknoll9702]

Interestingly enough, my wife is an almost obsessed collector of the very things matt warns about here; depression glass (green specificly) and one of the patterns of china pictured in the video. I am just glad she is so protective of them the only thing she has used the sets for is tea or cocoa

[@deprolled1989]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpOsoZerhdKKoLM It's finally here

[@TheKrossRoads]

She's secretly building a nuke.

[@Xnoob545]

Invest in a Geiger counter

[@lucky-segfault4219]

I mean as long as you aren't eating out of them the radiation doses are small enough you generally won't have to worry about it. Tho if you wanna be safe you can get sub 100$ Geiger counter to find out how dangerous they are and toss the worst ones.

[@Solvita_]

@@Xnoob545 facts

[@Cgreen123]

This was unreasonably funny for some reason. The part where Matt said lead was another glassware substitute and then went “Yayyyy” was the uranium-infused icing on the banana cake.

[@ChickenNuggets-jf5uf]

8:07

[@emmahammond9670]

I was watching this while i was in the process of making banana bread on my granite tabletop, all I have to say is that i hid in the corner almost the whole time.

[@dylandlp19]

So I learned this a while back in college. A banana actually emits a positron or antielectron once every 30 minutes due to the potassium decay. That's the radiation you detect. Bananas literally produce antimatter.

[@SpringStarFangirl]

Bro. That's wild.

[@am5411803]

holy-

[@matijasostojic4288]

So you Are saying that Banana man is one of the most powerfull super heroes on the planet. He can just make US all explode.

[@ShadowDemon_4]

ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY BANANA!

[@doyrte]

It’s cause of K40

[@poppingp809]

To be honest, im surprised Mat didn't talked about the blue radioactive bananas found in México

[@FelicityUwU]

Wait what-

[@lucky-segfault4219]

the wut now?

[@MrBanan0]

Excuse me WHAT?

[@poppingp809]

Yeah, it happened in Chiapas like a year ago(? Because im fron México, it appeared in the News for like a week lmao

[@missingtexturez]

not to be confused with that rare species of banana thats blue and tastes like ice cream...right?

[@happygav123]

"The fruit bowl is the most dangerous thing in your kitchen." Sharp cutting knives: "Well, actually..."

[@dannyfoxboi]

7:28 Flashback to Markiplier freaking out that Amy's pottery was radioactive.

[@TheDuckMaster12]

I’m surprised that while you were talking about X-rays being a safe level of radiation for patients, you didn’t mention that the reason doctors and dentists still leave the room is because if they stayed for every single X-Ray they perform, it would get into dangerous territory. People just get nervous when the doc leaves, but they don’t need to!

[@TamWam_]

i remember getting xrays on my knee and they left the room. i didn't really know the exact reason, but i did know that it was probably to protect themselves from radiation. although i did feel nervous because i felt like i would mess up the xray if i moved slightly

[@columnarcarp7825]

@@TamWam_ same lol. When I had an X-ray done when I broke my arm, they put a protective sheet on me to block the radiation from the rest of my body. I was scared that if I moved the sheet at all I would mess it up😂

[@Lohi42]

it's the same reason why the bartender doesn't have a drink with every client

[@gaelcervantes1789]

@@Lohi42 or why prosties don't do it without the rubber with every customer

[@tanks4dying]

@@Lohi42 no its not

[@TheJehu]

I recently did a paper on Uranium, and it turns out that it's in most rocks and water in the world. After all, it's an element, so it's pretty much everywhere. We probably consume it often. It's just never a problem because of how little there is.

[@Kindelwyrm2]

I remember seeing this in one of our water test reports.

[@Philemaphobia]

Why do you think we age?

[@bo-dine7971]

@@Philemaphobia We age because of the biologial clock ticking. If background radiation & consumed isotopes alone aged us, then people by the coast in UK wouldn't make it to 30, due to the insane radon levels. In fact Cornwall, the worst area, has an aging population.. Stop the pseudo-science.

[@HopeIsADrug11037]

ah

[@outkast937]

​@@Philemaphobia background radiation and oxygen mostly. One of the lovely ironies of life is that something we absolutely cannot live without (oxygen) is also toxic to us.

[@Mewhehthefunny]

MatPat: *Glances at fruit bowl* Fruit bowl: So you have chosen death

[@sarahbloom8358]

The thing is, sleeping in the same bed as someone exposes you to more radiation than a banana.

[@oscarma15]

How??

[@user_S2_]

So a bed with someone else is more than a bed

[@Seanderson3]

Mat talking about "uranium glass" reminded me of the time when Markiplier discovered that Amy had pottery form the 30's that was *_highly radioactive_* If anyone wants to know the video, it was *"I Haven't Eaten This Food In Over 20 Years"*

[@matijasostojic4288]

"You have something to say About my grandmother, Mark!" "HUH!" "I think she might be irradiated."

[@ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb]

Look up Nilered’s video on uranium glass. It’s not at dangerous at Matpat says, but it’s still dangerous of course

[@kanalzumkommentieren2169]

Same

[@benito23453]

MatPat is a brain burner!(Правдивое видео): kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXK0qYOJrLJnnpI...

[@sofiafaggin6559]

I was thinking about this as well😭

[@cameronhumphreys2309]

9:15 Fun related trivia fact, Tomatos were once considered poisonous. During the times of lead based makeup and cutlery the tomatoes would similarly leach lead from the lead plates and utensils, causing lead poisoning.

[@thelibyanplzcomeback]

True that.

[@parmesean_]

yep. someone tried to assassinate an important figure with soup by adding tomato to it but it did nothing

[@abiutheartist]

I remember a fake fact about how: A cook tried to assassinate the USA president (George Washington) by adding tomatoes in his soup

[@angiki9988]

Tomatoes are also in the nightshade family.

[@cameronhumphreys2309]

@@angiki9988 huh, didn’t know that. Neat!

[@and_gelitan]

Food theory: What’s the difference between dry taste and dry food?

[@azzabynes5707]

This just makes my think of the radium girls again... and now I'm sad about the mistreatment of workers. My brother played Mr. Berry in the play for his high school and I cried when I found out it actually happened.

[@britanimations2002]

Guess you could say the operations that cost them a lot of needless expense were just silly, completely bananas!

[@jored37]

Thank You for this

[@vibaj16]

what if someone hid radioactive materials in a banana shipping conatiner, so they'd open it and see the bananas and go "oh, just the bananas"

[@Arewmon]

As part of their radioactivity, Bananas are also one of the world's most abundant natural sources of antimatter (they release about 1 positron every 75 minutes).

[@congratulationsmerry6386]

time to make some money

[@Hoshimaru57]

Cool, too bad it instantly annihilates or you could make immeasurable amounts of money off it. Antimatter is the most expensive substance known to man.

[@hazeltree7738]

​@@Hoshimaru57 No, I'm glad it instantly annihilates. Because the second we figure out how to gather antimatter, we've figured out how to make something worse than a nuke

[@dannypipewrench533]

1:25 Yes, specifically those two things.

[@zariasafonova7220]

I remember having a week long tangent at college where a friend and I tried to calculate how many bananas you would have to consume to die in various ways including radiation and potassium poisoning, overfilling your stomach, and - the classic - choking

[@terrafria]

When my parents moved to Colorado they wanted to move into the mountains, thing is, most homes in the houses up there (the ones for sell at that time) were all way over the safe levels of Radon. Living in the mountains not only comes with a higher price tag but it also came with a chance of cancer.

[@UndeadSaffron]

I grew up in northern Nevada, took me far too long to learn that "radon test season" wasn't common everywhere

[@Geepnarp]

Me who lives in the mountains

[@generaldurchbruchmuller7284]

You just have to build a house with good ventilation in the basement

[@Geepnarp]

@Ashley cold places. Cancer. Hot places cancer. Sun. cancer. These nuts. cancer.

[@lbozo7285]

Wait.. what 😀

[@CentralGaming131]

I have a Food Theory request I want to know how can someone make the stretchiest cheese. You know? Whenever you bite into a mozzarella stick.. or grilled cheese.. pizza even.. the cheese is stretchy! I wonder if you can develop the most satisfying cheese stretch that has graced our mortal eyes! 🧀

[@wondr.ful.]

Noice.

[@justinlaw8511]

The show, "How It's Made" might be a good place to look

[@The_destroyer_of_doors]

Are you from the future ?

[@Noodle966]

Your wish has been granted

[@TheThunderStrikes]

Your wish is his command

[@Mili837]

Matpat: your fruit may indeed be the most dangerous thing in the kitchen. Knives and fire: am I a joke to you

[@Coldcolor900]

7:42 i don't really have anything to add to this theory, but i just thought it was interesting enough to share that my great grandpa actually mined uranium for kitchenware during that time. he also got in a mining accident that paralyzed him from the neck down, so yeah.

[@cawsking555]

8:13 it is safe to hold and be stored unless the objects is chipped or broken in any way then it has a segment for the release of radiation , objects must not be thrown away but for disposal of radiation contaminated objects must be summitted to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as they can be compressed and reused as a fuel source.

[@atmega16a5]

Or just generally be safely managed and not leach out into groundwater in some landfill.

[@SgtLogOfWood]

Thank god, those pre-world war 1 porcelain cashew baskets are made tough.

[@TomSteele93]

Wink wink.

[@yemm442]

Plate powered.

[@pegasBaO23]

depends if the pattern is in the glaze or on top of it

[@demoncrow92]

I had to get a radon mitigation system installed in my new home this year because the radon levels were over the regular safe levels. It was definitely an interesting process.

[@TheSubtleCow]

I am mildly annoyed Matt implied that high radon levels are caused by countertops, not you know building a house in an area with high underground radon levels.

[@odd9238]

@@TheSubtleCow Same, where I live the radon emissions from the ground are high and therefore every couple of years you have to do a radon measurement in your house. If it’s high you have to renovate your ventilation.

[@bbgun061]

@@TheSubtleCow But someone who lives in an area without high radon, probably doesn't have radon detectors. So then a granite countertop could become a source of radon which would go undetected...

[@SonnytheSunsetKing]

I watched this and showed it to a older woman who is a dear friend. These are the types of videos i love about Food Theory. Keep up the good work. (My elder loved this video bytheway)

[@niccraig3047]

Really glad you added that bit about the old ceramics

[@jeremyhillaryboob4248]

"Is the fruit bowl the most dangerous thing in your kitchen?" Knives, ovens, stoves, forks, things on tall shelves: Am I a joke to you?

[@cathygrandstaff1957]

Also sponges.

[@XxmusicYT]

OVEN=HEAT=IF U GO IN IT= "uhm..who even goes in ovens??"

[@canislupusminecraft2670]

@@XxmusicYT A nice jucy chicken.

[@mrsg8996]

Don’t forget gas appliances. One little leak is enough to assure you’ll never worry about kitchen dangers again.

[@KazuhiraG]

other than ovens/W, Stoves. all of those things need to be applied energy to in order to hurt you. Something has to be taking all the potential energy in each item and turning it into Kinetic energy/movement. Ovens don't count for that, because once they've been turned on, they stay on. Whilst what was originally the point of the sentence was likely what the most Passively dangerous thing in your kitchen. And a heated oven is in fact much more dangerous than your fruitbowl and quite opposite to said fruitbowl it gets more dangerous the longer it's left alone. i know this was a joke, it was a good joke. but, it never hurts to learn or see something from a different perspective, and thats why i wrote this.

[@MotivatedVergilGaming]

"If you eat 40,000 bananas in 10 minutes you would die of radioactive poisoning" - Clu 2020

[@iishxyfilms]

When matpat explained what ions were i recalled the explanation my science teacher gave us about ions. and only now do i actually understand what ions are. thank you for once again educating me better than how they do at school :)

[@tylerpowell8525]

My wife and I actually collect uranium glass. We have somewhere around 50 or so pieces. Now we don't actually eat off of them. Just have them in a display cabinet with a UV led strip to show off their glow.

[@James-kd6kf]

Many of these radioactive dish ware, particularly the uranium glass, when used as ornamentation are practically harmless. You'd need to be eating/drinking from them exclusively or leaving them under you pillow at night to receive a large enough dose.

[@flyingkage]

Not to mention banana wise it's a natural breakdown not the more manmade one.

[@myplanetchannel5932]

Youd have to eat the glass too

[@EdsonR13]

Me who uses the same bowl and the same cup for everything and not infrequently leaves them by my bedside overnight- 👀

[@QuintarFarenor]

@@flyingkage Just because it's natural doesn't mean it's any better for your body (in a high enough dosage of course)

[@kaitlynweeks4143]

This is one of the first weird facts about food I actually knew before MatPat did a video on it (sorta similar to how I knew apple seeds were poisonous to some degree). Don't ask me how I knew that bananas were radioactive, I just did lol

[@noahthecrazy1632]

Let me guess, Russian badger?

[@thegoatfather1676]

I learned that bananas are radioactive from Vertinasium (idk if I spelled that right)

[@kaitlynweeks4143]

@@noahthecrazy1632 loll maybe. That does ring some bells haha

[@kaitlynweeks4143]

@@thegoatfather1676 ooo yes! I love that channel.

[@jakelund5030]

Easily one of your most entertaining videos, absolutely loved it

[@menotme3839]

I literally, discussed EVERY topic in this in my physics lessons today! Very cool!

[@Foodgeek]

Mmmmh... Delicious radiation! 😋

[@kqns3451]

first!

[@rotprotectorofrateria8042]

want some uranium? it's good

[@itsFnD]

Or is it..?

[@ruudvanlaarhoven5776]

It's giving off energy, that's got to be good for a human, right?

[@Foodgeek]

@@ruudvanlaarhoven5776 Yeah, but everything that's bad for you is delicious, right? 🤣

[@animekittykitty]

I was funnily enough at an antique store, saw some plates, said "Oh, Uranium glass," at which point my friend pointed out that the tags said that they were depression glass and we assumed that I was wrong. Guess I'm better at identifying dangerous dining sets than I thought.

[@LouisKafeeLouisKafee-bj1pt]

Great show love the humor. Great way to start your day with a laugh.

[@gzharsh]

does ice cream actually cool you down? and if it doesn’t whats the best frozen food to cool you down?

[@actuallytortuous]

i didn’t expect to wake up on a saturday morning seeing a video telling me the banana that i was about to eat is radioactive 😐

[@samanitions444]

You wake up at 1am🤨

[@benito23453]

MatPat is a brain burner!(Правдивое видео):. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXK0qYOJrLJnnpI

[@BloomingRose7]

@@samanitions444 Different time zones exist.

[@Embrrz]

@@samanitions444 uhhh, time zones exists

[@voidcarrot7670]

@@samanitions444 I do

[@vincevvn]

Matpat: “your fruit bowl is the most dangerous thing in your kitchen.” Knives: “ Allow me to introduce myself.”

[@the_redpyro4906]

Gas leaks. Gas leaks are the most dangerous thing in your kitchen.

[@amazngamalth3a256]

Mat started talking about radiated granite counter tops *While I was eating at one.*

[@vazid8018]

Food Theory Idea: If you could only have 1 food and 1 drink for the rest of your life, what would be the best option. not your favorite but the best option. like which people could survive off of the longest or other examples

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

9:07 "Uranium in your body is not good." Well the floor is made out of floor I see.

[@theapptntforcomments1960]

Yup

[@user-jm6qe6sz2p]

MatPat is a brain burner!(Правдивое видео):. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXK0qYOJrLJnnpI

[@user-jm6qe6sz2p]

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[@user-jm6qe6sz2p]

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[@ScaerieTale]

As soon as Matt said "danger in your fruit bowl" I immediately thought of the cancer plates, and in particular, a family friend who collects these things. Like, hundreds of them >_>

[@deprolled1989]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpOsoZerhdKKoLM It's finally here.

[@jeffsorrows]

Right after says "Treat yourself to a radioactive free lunch," while in the same video saying how no matter where you are, you'll get radiation naturally, So what is it MatPat?!? Lol just a small flub in his script and slight oversight when he got excited on that sponsor money :P

[@ziggyzoggin]

I guess you could say they're actually a sievert collector

[@AmyraCarter]

Hopefully, kept in a display case and shown as art pieces.

[@demetrian7856]

@@jeffsorrows its just a transition, not a big deal. And btw, most people don't have dirt in their food, which is where the radiation comes from.

[@izaberu-chan849]

I told my teacher about his video, I’ve been wanting to show my class any theory channel for a while and the fact this lined up perfectly with what we are learning about seems like it’s destiny. Hope she lets us watch it :)

[@ConstantOwl]

Did she

[@edenanimates1465]

Sportacus:well, that’s one less sports candy to my diet Monkey:guess I’ll die

[@lordflarus]

I actually already knew this thanks to one of TheRussianBadger's friends Fun Fact: if you were to eat 40,000 bananas in under ten minutes, you would die of radioactive poisoning

[@cameronjadewallace]

Kirby is the only thing that potentially could eat that many in that time, and I'm pretty sure Kirby is indestructible.

[@wolfywolfster4759]

I knew, Badger's random post. Would come in handy.

[@AmyraCarter]

One would likely have a ruptured stomach after fifty. Maybe a hundred if one has enough competition eating training.

[@Erikulum]

If you eat 40000 bananas in under 10 min, you'll die but radiation will have nothing to do with it. fun fact: You'll also die if you drink an equivalent amount of water

[@cactusgamingyt9960]

Internal bleeding would probably make that death even more painful from your stomach bursting. Not to mention 40,000 bananas on average weigh 4,720 kilograms, which is 4,199 kilograms more than the average 1.7 meter tall man. Give or take a few kilos.

[@SamuraiGuy]

I feel like matpat would have heard about this fact a long time ago.

[@MK-jx2lu]

And?

[@GoldenStreak9k]

Same i was surprised when this video popped into my feed, I would've thought he made a video about this topic earlier

[@sparklingvicky2733]

Video idea: are sugar free sweets actually sugar free? (Coke Zero, jello, etc.)

[@lavender_midnight]

*watches this while eating at the table *slowly looks up at the bananas

[@themorrigan1312]

I'm not gonna lie, I thought this was relatively common knowledge. However, the history and science-y stuff is pretty cool

[@ben-ig3bu]

Mat: "Your fruit bole is the most dangerous thing in you kitchen" Knives: "Am I a joke to you"

[@Technoflashcat]

*bowl

[@Koooo4]

ben: "bole" Bowl: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@ben-ig3bu]

@@Koooo4 ha sowy

[@ben-ig3bu]

@@Technoflashcat sowy

[@darkduckpl9620]

I am most dangerous of every object or person existing in my kitchen. 47 buried but 0 found. My old crossbow will agree

[@purpleshutin]

"Kris, get the banana!" "Radiation"

[@anstolis3814]

7:09 when you do so much mapping/Cartography as a hobby you recognize the map he's using off of the internet, which is for the record the blank version of Hadaril's Nextgen worlda maps

[@ralseithelonely]

This gives to 'Kris, get the banana!' a whole new meaning. No wonder the Queen was so into bananas. She was smuggling Potassium! Even the car exploded!

[@reaper_is_unavailable]

That's why the banana was in the acid pool

[@semisocialhedgehog6968]

GET THE BANANA KRIS

[@josegregorioriego512]

@@semisocialhedgehog6968 Potassium

[@brandylshey9367]

Markiplier made a video where he used a Geiger counter to detect radiation in his girlfriend's passed-down dishware that really freaked him out. That would have been awesome footage to borrow here. I've also been talking about banana radiation for years. It's great to have a bunch of small facts on the same theme rolled together into a single full episode. Sure its a departure from the standard content you put up here, but honestly this is the best place for it.

[@thedapperraptor8207]

Whays the name of the video I cant find it?

[@unbeknownstprofile]

Interesting...can someone please send a link to the video?

[@iamconfusion._.7976]

@@unbeknownstprofile here is the link :) (keep in mind that the radiation testing for Amy’s passed down dishes is much later in the video near the end) kzbin.info/www/bejne/qpnJi56adqipppI

[@iamconfusion._.7976]

@@thedapperraptor8207 hi I just posted the link to the video when I was responding to someone else asking about the same thing :)

[@thedapperraptor8207]

@@iamconfusion._.7976 thank you :)

[@myleswelnetz6700]

Donkey Kong might want to think twice before he eats another banana.

[@leoutter3557]

A lot of old plates I seen doesn’t have paint on the part where you have the food, the paint is often just on the side of the top where food rarely touch so I would recommend making sure that you don’t throw your plates out unnecessarily. And if you’r plate is older or newer then the 1930-1970s so should they not be radioactive from what I read.

[@Ky-kx2hd]

Hey Matt and team! Could you maybe do a theory about organic food? I'm trying to eat healthier and I'm curious why organic foods are so much more expensive. Are they just harder to grow because they're not engineered? Is someone just trying to take advantage of people who want to eat healthy, or trying to make me settle for the cheaply made junk? I'd just love to learn about organic foods and all that, if that fits your vision. You're doing great stuff!

[@jussomeidiot5858]

I think kurzgesazt did an episode on organic if you just want radiation.i would like to see food theorys interpritation of this concept tho.

[@user-jm6qe6sz2p]

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[@raven_claw1975]

"Did you know bananas are radioactive?" Yes. For years. Many years

[@vectorboom1982]

I learned it from the amazing world of gumball

[@yourshoulderdevil5229]

@@vectorboom1982 Same actually.

[@savageboosterstudios]

I learned it from dado.

[@notjebbutstillakerbal]

QSERF Told me

[@moonwalkerangel7008]

I only found out after I was researching what items contain radioactive elements. (This was after looking into the Radium girls).

[@meatkirbo]

Just to put the X-Ray bit into perspective, to get 20,000 you’d have to have one done Every Day for almost 55 years

[@moxrockz]

My family just uses those old plates as decoration behind glass- it trapped behind glass cabinets- would it be safe to open the cabinets- (we haven't in 5+ years)

[@phoneguy4637]

- kid: "how healthy are bananas?" - me: "let me have a geiger counter and I can tell." - kid: 👁👄👁

[@ConnorTheCurator]

When bananas are the most dangerous things in your kitchen: starts chucking butcher knives at people “They’re not that dangerous!”

[@zuzuo.0754]

MatPat, your grave said from 1655-2022?! I have a theory that your immortal!

[@Ziris85]

The point about cast iron is true, but as long as the pan is properly seasoned, the risk is minimal. In fact, you'd have to cook a lot of high acid food for long periods every day to get to a concerning level. There's some fascinating history to this, such as why people thought tomatoes were poisonous for a while (people would cook raw tomatoes on their cast iron pans and eventually started getting sick from the metal leeching from their unseasoned/poorly seasoned pans). It would make for a great food theory episode!

[@Mathtron5000]

Whenever I see a big number after an energy or radiation calculation, I always ask "How many bananas is that?" because that is the only unit I can understand

[@Kambyday]

Me too

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[@rambysophistry1220]

I would like to say, there is a lot of unreasonable scare mongering in regards to radiation in this video, which is particularly disheartening when we need sane minds making commentary on the actual dangers of radiation, since nuclear energy, both fission and fusion, are the most likely candidates for safe and sufficient power generation coming up. The worst candidate is dealing with uranium glass and radionuclides in glazes. The uranium in uranium glass is and the radionuclides, which is a fancy word for "atoms that decay and produce radiation", in glazes that contain them, as long the glaze and glass are not chipped or damaged, is 100% safe. It is 100% safe because it is not possible for chemicals to get at them and leach them out, because they are bound up entirely within an atomic matrix. If the glaze is damaged, or the glass is chipped, then it can become a radioactive dust hazard, and storing it safely in a plastic bag will render it perfectly safe for displace, as would putting it behind a glass display cabinet, where the dust is contained. The issue with most radiation is that if the source of that radiation gets inside of you, it is stuck in there and causing a lot of damage over time, mostly because those things that do the most damage are releasing particles, alpha and beta radiation, which have a hard time penetrating skin, but if they get inside of your body have an easy time hitting living cells that are dividing and potentially causing cancer.

[@deprolled1989]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZpOsoZerhdKKoLM It's finally here

[@oscarcacnio8418]

I was about to say... I have seen few videos where they demonstrate just how dangerous these types of wares really are (which is not very if not smashed). Also, one video called it fiesta ware.

[@rambysophistry1220]

@@oscarcacnio8418 Yes, Fiesta Ware is the brand name, but it can come in other varieties. What matters is that the glaze uses radionuclides or the glass has radionuclides as part of its makeup. And yeah, as long as the dish is whole, and not chipped or broken, then it is quite safe despite putting out a surprising amount of alpha radiation.

[@Aiden.F16]

This came up in my physics GCSE- I'm so happy I watched this video before because granite worktops came up in the exam

[@Epicgamer-ti9lc]

Mat:Fruit bowls are the most dangerous thing in your kitchen Knifes:bro I’m here

[@malyhnroodenburg7156]

5:15 I love how the editors made MatPat 367 years old

[@annieh1315]

So interestingly enough, it's recommended to cook something acidic in a cast iron pan if you have iron deficiency anemia!

[@fnaffoxy1987]

So they essentially recommend you to slowly eat your cast iron pan?

[@Cosmosdestructor]

@@fnaffoxy1987 apparently.

[@demetrian7856]

that's interesting, I want to look into that!

[@morrigankasa570]

If you properly take care of/season your cast iron it doesn't get harmed by acidic foods.

[@Merennulli]

Who is recommending that? That's not a good source of dietary iron. Your body won't process it in the way it needs iron.

[@jakewise8554]

I love how whenever I watch any of these videos I feel terrified of everything

[@CopyTheVoidEntity]

'What are you doing?' 'I'm using Banana Joe's powers to irradiate him.'

[@marshmallowrabbid8790]

Well this is just perfect, we have cyanide from apples and now radioactive bananas. Now we just need some wacky video game scientist to use this as some kind of death Ray

[@ninolloydbandiola5581]

"villain that shoots nuclear bananas" got it, noted.

[@TheNetherLord5240]

actually, apricot pits have more cyanide than apple seeds

[@cryotek3624]

It needs to be a horror game based on the 80's with hidden lore about an evil scientist trying to blow up the world with bananas

[@mycelia_ow]

apple seeds* which you shouldn't eat anyway but it barely has any.

[@TheNetherLord5240]

@@mycelia_ow as i mentioned before, apricot pits have more cyanide than apple seeds. bitter almonds have even more, but you'd need to eat a whole handful to experience the effects

[@1gient]

Sunlight is also ionizing radiation. It can even cause cancer, melanoma specifically. Upside is that it makes it one of the best sterilizer as well and the atmosphere filters out most of its ionizing parts.

[@nsshurtz]

To say that sunlight is ionizing radiation is inaccurate as it comprises nearly the entire spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, instead it is more accurate to say it is partially ionizing radiation.

[@abqmalenurse]

There are also forms of stucco which have a lot of granite. That is a bigger concern than anything mentioned. Can cause a lot of Radon exposure.

[@jessegloverjr.5890]

Mat should make an episode on Mattress Firm. Why are there so many locations with no customer or demand? I know it’s not food, but it’s worth a theoretical (or factual) explanation.

[@acursedhope]

This was always one of the fun facts the kids would tell in elementary school 😅

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[@osmosisjones4912]

higher wages equals higher cost for less food . but is it worth it. lot people could do a little less feeding. other issues like rent could be the issue

[@ThefifthBishopofGord]

I have at known that bananas are radioactive since this video came out. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2ipYZlmi7x9pLM

[@ThefifthBishopofGord]

@卐-lakehunt360-卐 Nah, come out with a least two minute long diss tract towards a fictional character; Than I will at least recognize you as a competitor to them.

[@Sam-ps8zz]

In 8th grade we calculated how many bannanas you would need to eat within an hour to be basically garunteed to die from cancer. I cant remember the exact number, it was something like 1.53 billion I think

[@zandergriffin2405]

I knew that too. i read this children's book called "The many worlds of Albie Bright" by christopher edge. and the mc used a banana, a quantum computer, and a cardboard box to hop universes. Really good read tho.

[@theabbottagencylive5210]

Uranium glass is very common, I used to hunt it until my Geiger broke. We have collected around 25+ pieces of uranium glass in my collection. The hottest piece measured at 350 counts per minute

[@amitsingh-wo8sd]

If bananas are radioactive, we can become Spider-Man and swing in the city

[@HORRIOR1]

Uranium glass is actually perfectly harmless in most conditions, it is just illegal to make these days because of the strict laws of uranium distribution.

[@KentuckyKaiju]

It's specifically depleted Uranim, which has had most of the really radioactive isotopes decayed already. It's perfectly fine for display purposes if you're a collector, but, as said, avoid using it to serve food. Even aside from any radiation concerns, one should avoid exposure to heavy elements that far down the periodic table whenever possible (not just lead). Most have little to no biological purpose or means for the body to process so they just accumulate in the body over time, often settling to places like bones, kidneys, and the liver, standing in for elements like calcium and iron in certain compounds, rendering them inferior, useless, or actively toxic. In enough quantity, eventually they can cause biological disruptions, including cancer, dementia, and kidney/liver failure.

[@floridaman735]

Food Theory: Bananas are radioactive! Me: *starts consuming tons of bananas in hope to gain superpowers.

[@ArtemusTheSilly]

yea bro that’s the way to do it

[@NoizZy_]

its the other way around, you gotta get bitten by the banana to become *Banana Man*

[@benito23453]

@@ArtemusTheSilly kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXK0qYOJrLJnnpI Держитесь солдаты🇷🇺👍

[@chafadog]

Banaman He has the power of rhyming orange with banana

[@kxnpanda7643]

here me out if I fed a banana to a spider would that make the spider radio active and If I let it bite me...I think u can see where I'm going with this

[@basil4002]

You should do a theory about how Cosco makes you buy more than you came for by moving things around and making you search for what you need and finding more than what you came for. Please mention me if you do a theory on this

[@Sugarbeepop]

Already did an episode on shopping psychology, not Costco specifically but he’s already covered basically all of this in that one

[@Sugarbeepop]

Pretty sure it’s this one so you don’t even have to look for it kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6LZmnWGfJeohqc

[@matthewleewillis]

But what about how dangerous microwave can be? You should do a whole show on microwaves!

[@gault6546]

tbh im more suprised that you didnt know bananas are radioactive until recently. i usually rely on your videos for random trivial and interesting knowledge that i didnt know before instead.

[@flammableham0280]

8:39 Easy Question. I’d obviously take the Glowing Casserole.

[@Chippys_comments]

If you shined a uv light at a banana it would glow blue (means it contains radioactive material like potassium) and yes potassium is radioactive!! 4:28

[@averagegamer27267]

if you ate 20,000 bananas in 10 minutes you'd die of radioactive poisoning

[@AdorableAwesomePizza]

Matpat in the first 3 seconds: did you know that bananas are radioactive? Me: yes

[@evanrobinson5682]

As a nuclear engineer this was fun to see in my sub box. Hope you bring up Brazil Nuts too! Edit: couple things I might be unnecessarily pedantic about- Background radiation comes from more than just minerals in the ground. It comes from the sun, and as many people probably first thought about when its mentioned- cosmic background radiation as well (the same from the big bang). Another big portion is from radon gas that can sometimes become trapped in people's homes (and set off radiation detectors periodically if environmental conditions are right). It exists in the air too, already, not just trapped in your countertop. Most airline pilots actually receive larger doses of radiation a year than nuclear engineers because going up in the atmosphere removes a lot of shielding between you and the deadly laser of the sun which, yeah, is emitting a lot of radiation. Sieverts are specifically measurements of dosage of received radiation. (In the US we tend to use rem instead (100rem equals one Sv), and typically they're measured in milli-rem). The bit about not eating radioactive material is particularly important. One portion of radiation typically encountered isn't too dangerous, but if you eat some material that emits radiation, well you're in for waaaay larger amount of damage (especially since your skin can actually shield you from a bit of radiation and you're bypassing that). Healthwise, a good analogy would be being stung by a bee once, vs eating a bee and having it live inside you for the rest of your life and sting your stomach lining every few hours. Oh, and every sting has a chance of giving you cancer. Don't ingest radioactive material folks. (Unless its bananas, there's not enough in there to be worried about and potassium is good for you, even if some of it is the spicy potassium)

[@dannypipewrench533]

Potassium-40, the spicy potassium. Wonderful. I'd like to become a nuclear engineer. I am interested in nuclear-thermal propulsion, so that would mean I want to be an aerospace engineer too, and, I guess, ultimately a thermodynamicist. Thermal energy is everything in those fields, according to what I have been told by a friendly engineer at my local nuclear power plant. (No joke, I am 12 miles from Palo Verde.)

[@evanrobinson5682]

@@dannypipewrench533 If you're into nuclear propulsion then the obvious application would be working for/with the Navy. Not many aero-specific applications for nuclear energy. (They found a nuclear powered bomber required too much weight from lead shielding to be feasible). Efficient use of thermal energy is everything in a nuclear plant yeah, a lot of that stuff Mechanical engineers learn about as well in their schooling (don't feel like you need to get a nuke E degree to do a nuke E job).

[@dannypipewrench533]

@@evanrobinson5682 I mean nuclear-thermal propulsion as in super-heating hydrogen with a fission reactor and shooting it out the bottom of a large flying cylinder. Sure, there are not a lot of existing examples, and airplanes would not (as thou said) be a practical use of this. Space launch vehicles might work well with this technology. It keeps on getting discontinued every time it has been tried, though, but that has always been due to funding issues. A working example should greatly reduce the price of space launches and decrease the time it takes to reach other celestial bodies.

[@s_panther4]

my science teacher: "hey! sade stop drawing in class! pay attention or you'll fail!" me: "i watch matpat in my free time, im good"

[@dannyisawesome8083]

Mat, how about making the quietest chip? I hate it when I'm eating chips next to someone, and the sound of it crunching just makes me feel rude. I'd love to have a solution to this problem.