How radioactive are bananas and other radioactive foods?
It is time to take a closer look at some foods that are often said to be radioactive: bananas and brazil nuts.
How active are they in reality? And why would they even be radioactive in the first place?
Can I find something way more active and still edible in a grocery store?
Let's find out!
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#Banana #BrazilNuts #Brainiac75
"Don't let fire play with you" is some of the best and most sensible safety advice out there.
Sounds kinky ngl
I paused to say the same thing, that is a very good way of saying it. "Don't let fire play with you"
_"Don't let fire play with you"_ *But I'm in Soviet Russia :/*
I am not sure we should take safety advice from a guy who burns stuff to find radioactivity X)
In Russia, you don't play with fire Fire plays with YOU!
"Not the worst meal I've cooked" LOL
My italian heart stopped DX
Hello master or in my language (3””9 :@#534
@@mattonemat my Brazil heart stopped lol.
@@yourlocaljoshua XD something in common!!! XD
"My best meal"
This is a nice cooking tutorial! 10/10
The Swedish Chef has nothing on the Danish Viking Chef ;) Thanks for watching!
@@brainiac75 The Virgin Swede vs the CHAD Dane
Wow, burnt bananas, Evan Gordon Ramsey can’t compete with that
@@brainiac75 WAIT A SECOND. YOU'RE DANISH?
I am from Denmark
"Even when surrounded by bananas" I'm glad I lived long enough to hear someone say that.
"bonan" - Sun Tzu, Art of War
Same
im cackling mad at the banana stack. just found your channel, like it very much!
@@drownindesigner Praise Banan. -SAR player
"if your nuts can be lit like a candle you may want to consider your diet" why am I falling for your suggestions again and again - it did hurt a LOT!
i have gaven you the miracle of 69.
Use the torch. It's quicker.
It's exagerated. The Brazil nut Oil is healthier than most oils/fats you may consume and it's benefficial, but you can only eat like 3 of these per day or something
Facepalm
hol up-
Radioactive shrooms. I think i've seen a few in classic Super Mario Bros game...
Ah, the memories... Thanks for watching!
and fallout 4
I think if the flowers give you the ability to shoot flames from your hands *then yes the flowers are also pretty darn Radioactive*
@@Sir.Fithers id say so
@@brainiac75 Try to measure the radiation from Potassium chloride, in large quantitides.
Don´t eat mushrooms containing nuclear fission products, please... Damn, there goes the plan for todays dinner.
I dunno i ate them yester day and i aeeem cfaiiiand no proooblenso da it becjuu
@unused used old cheese You guys are overreacting, I picked some frpom my looocaala foresttt. I'm compllaetealy faiine. Ankuwqyas, nnaice talkj.
CommentControl yea I got some mushrooms from baaaaackjard. Iiimmmmm fiiiiinmemrn thheseeees guiiiysss arerreeee overreeaecttiininng
@@syruptalk ooooh yaaaaeee yhesje arr riillleee guuod i jaois gut aut of da e rawr and daey saed i no eiait shroooum
Overreaction im okay aaaaaasndanduwydnD IIAfuaIAUIIII aTTTE WOONBNEONE
Didn't know about the Florescence of the Banana skins.
Fluorescence is surprisingly common - and unknown. I didn't know about the fluorescence of bananas ripening and the turmeric in curry for most of my life - even though I am very interested in fluorescence... Thanks for watching!
@@brainiac75 I think there's an old study around this that some fruits have a fluorescent glow to signal certain prey that help spread the seeds.
Indulge me - why do you capitalize "fluorescence" and "banana"? Illiteracy or some weird error by your input device?
@@lajoswinkler It got your attention didn't it ?
@@lajoswinkler Perhaps they are German.
"If your nuts can be lit like a candle, you may want to reconsider your diet." I think there may be more wrong than your diet.
6:36 probably made me laugh more than it should have.
I see what you mean ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
oh no lmao
Ive watched lots of educational channels showcasing dangerous experiments. You are the only one that gives both a visual and auditory warning at the beginning. Thus educating people in the proper warning symbols. Keep up the good work.
"Local man lights his radioactive nuts on fire!"
That's NUTS!
"Dinner is served for the Geiger Counter" 🤣
geuger
I love how when placed next to the uranium glass the Geiger counter starts beeping SOS. Nice little detail.
You're always told some foods are radioactive, or some rocks are too, but you're the only channel that puts the radiation into numbers I understand
One of the most straight to the point channels on KZhead and at the same time engaging. Love your format mate!
5:16 "Not the worst meal i've cooked" What was the worst ?!
Matt the 2nd literal charcoal chunks
Poop
probably overcooked water
@@eyeballpapercut4400 o v e r c o o k e d w a t e r
Great now I need to test my mushrooms when I go picking them around chernobyl
Im sure its fine, check if they have eldrich worms thou
"Don't eat mushrooms containing nuclear fission products. Please."
Boy, my mother really pounded that message into my head when I was kid.
Next time: "Let's measure the background radiation from bananas at the store"
You know the drill!
*_sets the store on fire_*
Imagine a banana field's backround radiation
@Random Uncool guy and the nuts as well we can't forget those
5:16 lol, it is even more funny because you are being sincere.
Kris dont get the banana
PLANTS: I PROTECT MY SELF WITH POISEN BANANAS: HUH... ARMATURE im not fixing the spelling here deal with it
Brazil nuts: i am Armageddon
Poisen????? Or poison and armature or amateur your confusing
@@thescientist3612 just read it the way you want
I think it's even funnier cus you made spelling mistakes 🤣
What an interesting yet unusual video. Also, I'm glad to see that blowtorch is still going strong after such a long time! Also, neat survival trick with the brazil nuts, use them as firestarters! Overall, great video. :)
Thanks, I rarely cook in my videos x) No issues with the blowtorch so far. Impressive for such an inexpensive tool.
You can eat as much potassium as you want without substantially affecting your radiation dose since the body regulates potassium levels very tightly and any excess is simply excreted.
That makes sense, as the sodium-potassium pump is the heart of cellular metabolism.
You make the best videos man, keep up the good work, they are really interesting ;D
Thank you very much, etzöy! More to come as long as people bother watching my videos :D
5:15 (scraping carbon residue) "Looking good ... not the worst meal i've cooked." Blahahaha ... epic deadpan, both literally and figuratively. 🤣🤗👍❤
WHY HE SAY looking good
Liked before even watching always good content.....Keep it up.
Thanks, Rajvansh. Glad I haven't disappointed you yet :D Much more to come.
From 70+% vodka to radioactive ashes bananas. My chemistry teacher was right, cooking and chemistry are the same thing haha. It's amazing to know that the peel of the banana has more K!
Me too! I always eat the peel !
"You should eat brazil nuts, they aren't much more radioactive than you" I mean, to be fair I wasn't planning on eating me either
Interesting content. Love some of the music I usually hear on LA Beast's channel. Subscribed.
Excellent production, love it.
Just wanted to say that back in 2001-2002 we did WMD drills at the fire department I was volunteering at with a Geiger counter and as we went through the firehouse we found uranium as well as some other radioactive material samples but when we got to someone's lunch box the Geiger counter was going crazy......as you would assume we were all very reluctant to discover the contents.......it was a banana!!! So I am curious as to why your device did not get the same results.......perhaps the military grade Geiger counter we used as apposed to the civilian grade, is there even a difference? Anyways, great video, love your Chanel, thank you so much and keep it up!
yes there is difference, way more sensitive so it lets you detect high radiation from a distance before getting close. It has larger "antenna"
Maybe it was the banana which made the difference
yes, maybe the banana made a difference... in 2001-2002 maybe fruits were more "juicy" and modern agriculture made em blank of nutrients... anyways potassium is base for whatever cultivation so i dubt it lacks nowadays so hardly there may be difference in terms of potassium.... but a geiger going crazy for a banana? i don't think so, i may be wrong but.....
@@redoverdrivetheunstoppable4637 modern agriculture uses too much pesticides poisons the plants and growt hormones, no time for the usual reactions to take place. GMO also robs them of useful genes.
@@dimitar4y Well, more accurately a larger gas chamber. Geiger counters are a bit like a gas discharge light, but slightly lower voltage to keep it from discharging all the time. However, this very high voltage means a single ionization event will light the whole gas chamber up from the ion cascade. In addition, having a larger volume or higher density gas increases sensitivity as both increase the chance of ionization events.
3:21 Very interesting to see the words for "Sodium" and "Potassium" in Danish. Seems that Danish has stuck to the original terms Kalium and Natrium
Finnish too.
Yep, natrium is Danish for sodium. The symbols Na and K for sodium and potassium make much more sense in Danish ;) Thanks for watching!
Im like 99.9999% sure its same in latvian
Also in Dutch. And tungsten is wolfraam.
@@libertycentral6564 Wonder if any languages use derivatives of Plumbum for Lead
I did not expect this video to be so hilarious.! As well as informative.!
I am as dedicated to helping you purchase a gamma ray detector as you are to these videos. Thank you for all you do to further true knowledge! I’ll be a Patreon within the hour! Also: On a very unscientific note: I also adore the way you say “banana”. It’s absolutely wonderful 😁
Great video as always, really interesting aswell, Thank you
Thank you, Zvezda! More to come.
Thank you for doing this video. I have tested food over the years after Fukushima and never found increased radiation in bananas. Seaweed however I obtained some pretty high levels. I suspect it is radioactive iodine. It does go away after a year or so.
I need you to make more videos involving bananas. I’ve seen two so far and I love your pronunciation of banana.
More like this pls!!! This is SUPAR interesting 😁
Extremely! If you hold a banana in your hand and wait 1000000 years, then *_you will see your own bones in the hands_* after those 1000000 years! It's absolutely absolutely true.
is it just me or is everyone else's day made a billion times better when Brian uploads?
bRiaN
new favorite channel!
Potassium bitartrate, aka cream of tartar, is available in shops and ought to give similar results to KCl.
Yep, that is detectable too - though the potassium concentration is a little lower than in KCl. Thanks for watching!
Yess!! Radioactive ☢️ stuff
Yess!! Properly cooked banana peels
"Beware of radiation" Me eating a banana: Mmmhmm yeah mmmph I agree.
It is Not Radioactive To us Or else we wouldn't even be able to eat bananas.
New subscriber love it sir
You my friend are living the dream. You are very inspiring to me. I love your videos, your experiments and explanations are awesome. Are you a university professor?
Anything you eat is of low radioactivity generally. If you have sensitive counter, you can detect on what part of the bed you sleep on due to potassium in sweat. I've tried that with my scintillator probe. It was clearly measurable though not high radiation compared to background. I'm surprised to see that much radioation from banana peels!
We do live in a radioactive world... I was surprised by the ash from banana peels too. Seems too high to be only from potassium, but I could be wrong. Haven't found a reliable source on how high the potassium concentration can be in banana peels. Thanks for watching and sharing!
(next-door neighbor) "Hmmmm. Do I smell burning bananas?"
I loved this video! I want the geiger counter-toy now 😂
I like all of your videos especially the ones involving the monster magnets but this one about radioactivity is also very very interesting!
Thanks Jan. More monster magnet videos are planned, but I need to vary my video topics to keep myself interested in carrying on after 11 years of video making ;) Glad you like it!
@@brainiac75 what you post is entirely your prerogative. you make great videos no matter what topic though✌️✨
Hey Braniac, considering how radioactive some of this is, how high does that number have to be before it can cause damage to people after prolonged exposure?
when I clicked this video, I didn't expect to see you light your nuts on fire.......
I shone a UV LED torch at some bananas that I have and yes, the circles around the brown spots came out very bright. Fascinating stuff and great content as always Brainiac :-)
Tak for de skønne videoer!
In Brazil we call it "Para's nuts" (castanha do Pará 🇧🇷). The Danish is more correct in the traslation
tinha que ter saido do brasil para ser radioativo, aposto que essas castanhas ouvem funk
@@blwh na verdade o funk do Pará e a música tóxica chamada brega
CARA. O. QUE. FOCE. FALO. AQUI. BRASIL
kkkk pensei que eu era o unico br assistindo
Para these nuts
Even though I'd have no real use for one, I'd absolutely love a Geiger counter. I just find stray radiation fascinating.
Same! I want to put a number to a sunny day, or my gas tank, or other things. Just to see what it is.
I love this channel.
Good Teaching and a sence of humer Cheers
You should concentrate and separate the Potassium-40 from the other isotopes and re-test. ;) There is only about 64mg in that 1kg bag of KCl, but even so, if you slowly recrystallize it, it should make for a pretty impressive little sample indeed!
*"Making Banana powered Nuclear Reactor"* 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
It's a great idea. 🤣
*”Making Corpse powered Nuclear Reactor”* 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
DANGER DANGER I REPEAT! What’s going on!?!?!? CHIMPANZEES GOT INTO THE SYSTEM!!!!
So fascinating and enjoyable as usual,I was just wondering how radioactive were beuauty products back in 1900's like Doramad and Tho-radia and others,but unfortunatelly I don't think so that there are samples left to test them,but you are Brainiac75 and you will come up with something.
There were some really radioactive beauty products, toothpastes and chocolates available in the radium era. Quite crazy by today's standard... I don't have any of them. Rare and highly collectible = pricey :) Thanks for watching!
stacking bananas reminds me of the divers working in the basin of a nuclear plant: Yeah, the fuel is near your, but the radiation level in a big water basin is still lower then background radiation.
Cool video! I have a gamma spectrometer that I made, and I can detect the 1460 keV gamma emission from K-40 in the same Seltin salt that you have. It is a 63x63mm NaI(Tl) gamma spectrometer, that I built from parts off eBay. If you decide to get one, keep in mind that you need a larger crystal to detect the higher energy of the K-40 gamma! :)
I also need to test mushrooms for Cs-137, which I should be able to pick up on the gamma spectrometer
Nice spectrometer :) I am dreaming of the Gamma Spectacular GSB-2020-Pro kit with a 2x2" NaI(Tl) probe. That should do the job very well. But it is a big investment for me...
@@brainiac75 Thanks! Yeah, those Gammaspectaculars are great but expensive. I could not afford one of them. That is why I chose the diy-route. Mine cost like 300-ish USD in total. But it took a while to build and calibrate, which is something you don't have to do with the Gammaspectacular. Anyways, good luck! It is fun to measure stuff with it, like uranium rocks, uranium glazes, thorium stuff, K-40, Am-241, and even Lu :)
"if your nuts can be lit like a candle, consider your diet" Well played
idk why but i love the way you say banana 😂 great video as always
the best cooking tutorial 20/20!
Thanks for the test. Im having the feeling, that your testing for halogens, ie. fluorine, chlorine, bromine. Also found in most pesticine, fungicide, insecticide and so fouth. Would like to see a test on toothpaste (ofc. with natrium fluoride) and some of the poison-cides. Test anything with some kind of halogen in or on it. Thanks in advance.
Radiation, fire, and electricity are all in a similar category of danger in my opinion. They are all perfectly safe when the correct precautions are taken. They can be useful tools, but you must respect the danger that they can pose and treat them accordingly.
Nice video,keep going
Potassium Chloride is also used in alot of food out here in America. It's one of the GRAS that the FDA has considered safe, although most of the chemicals on that list are not really safe to eat.
"Though most samples in this video are edible, except the radioactive mushrooms." That's really cool, I never knew some of those things were edible. But I wish you had said something about how spicy and fizzy the potassium is; my esophagus is still burning.
3:28 If, using some help from the periodic table, I look at the names I can understand some of the compounds: Natriumklorid: Sodium (Na) Chloride, Kaliumklorid: Potassium (K) Chloride, Magnesiumsulfat: Magnesium (Mg) Sulfate This is because some of the early chemists were German and as Danish is a germanic language so they are simmilar enough.
Go' video, som altid! :)
Tusind tak, Emil. Brugte også noget tid på den :)
thanks, great video.
0:39 "don't let fire play with you" You play with the fire
in russia
@@cutiebunnyamber3447 😂😂
@@Primus420 Lmfaooo, you commented 15 minutes ago, the last time i was online was when i commented "in russia" lmfao what a nice very nice timing
@@cutiebunnyamber3447 lol indeed
"Bananas! More ionizing radiation than 5G!" :)
Great video thank you
I watch your stuff and it's really good. I thought maybe if I suggested making an ultra cheap Faraday Shield . That might get some viewers.
I sprinkle radioactive dust on my food all the time to enhance the flavour. Gotta love KCl.
Spicy hot rad wings
"not the worst meal i coooked" idk how would that be posibble
If you leave your meal to burn in a pot without stirring it, the coating on the bottom of a cheap pot can chip off and become part of the meal... Don't ask me why I know xD Thanks for watching!
@@brainiac75 can confirm lol
That patreon transition was smooth as butter.
This is a kind of video I would watch at 3 Am
go nuts on the thumbs up button! 🥜🌰
6:36 lol, i enjoyed that joke
Cody's lab got me here Amazing content
I fell asleep and voila... I wake up and all I hear is radioactive nuts and bananas, off to the fridge for a snack.
How did you go from getting millions of views to only a few hundreds :(
Speculating: could be how frequently he posts videos... or a change in yt algorithms
This is a brand new video... Thanks for being here so early :D
@@brainiac75 i miss when you got millions, also no problem i didnt know what to watch
@Werner Steyn Oddly enough my channel got more views when I didn't upload every month. Guess I should go back to uploading less frequently ;) Thanks for watching!
@@brainiac75 I wonder if views per video are affected negatively despite total views being increased or constant when frequency of uploads is varied Also, this video already has more views within hours than all of my videos combined xD (not surprising, I only have ~150 subscribers and the content is very different, etc, I just find it funny cause I wiiiiish one of my videos could have 100s of views lol)
I went absolute bananas on the like-button.
Thank you very much, poul. People tend to forget about that button. It looks so much better in blue, right?
Finally, a new upload ;)
The way you say potassium is the cutest thing I've ever heard! But that's besides the point, very interesting video
Thanks, Jean! Glad to hear. My Jutlandic English accent is not for everyone, but I don't plan to get rid of it. More cute/awkward pronunciation coming up :D
@@brainiac75 to be fair, my french Canadian english accent isn't perfect either 🤣
who's here before this video blows up for some reason?
Aye!
Fingers crossed, please ;) And thanks for watching and commenting so fast!
@@brainiac75 well, your views definently increased.
"If you nuts can be lit like a candle you may want to consider your diet 6:36 made my eyes tear up.
I like how one of your Geiger Counter’s Alarm is SOS in Morse Code :D
Wow I like how your KZhead channel icon refers to the contents.
Wow! Your voice has gone better over the years. Now this is a slightly different voice now. :-)
raidascan is my favourite I love the colours and how sensitive it is!
Very helpful
NuSalt is the most active thing I've found in a grocery store in the USA (unless they sell the thorium-doped lantern mantles, of course). It is 99% potassium chloride. Much hotter than the other salt substitutes.