Food Theory: Your Bananas Are RADIOACTIVE!

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

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.

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

Baby MatPat is gonna haunt me.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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"

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

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

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.

"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?

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.

1:25 Yes, specifically those two things.