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MikeCapone
on March 5, 2011
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Well, it's not like they're toxic... Have you seen the movie K-Pax?
Tichy
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I would expect banana peels to be quite toxic on average. Lots of pesticides, and unless you live in a place where bananas grow, who knows what they do to the bananas to prepare them for shipping.
kragen
on March 5, 2011
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A few pesticides are quite toxic to humans. Most aren't. There are some (e.g. cypermethrin) with no known lethal dose in humans.
jlazarow
on March 5, 2011
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Wouldn't organic bananas avoid that?
Tichy
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I wouldn't count on it, as there are varying definitions of organic.
pyrhho
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Though they apparently
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radioactive! :)
smcl
on March 5, 2011
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I like the "Banana Equivalent Dose" measurement:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
TimothyBurgess
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