How do bananas have potassium in them, if it is a very reactive element? ?
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at
8:24 PM
Sorry, I sound stupid lol. Just curious.
Filed under: Potassium In Food
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Potassium ELEMENT is reactive.
Potassium COMPOUNDS are not.
For example, potassium chloride is often used to salt the street during winter. Potassium chloride is much less corrosive that sodium chloride that used to be used.
The potassium in bananas is not in elemental form, it is in compound form — combined with other elements.
Because its there in the ionic form.
well theirs not enough in there to do anything
Well, guess what! You have potassium in you, just like the banana. The potassium is not the highly reactive potassium metal, but the very unreactive potassium ion, K+
Bananas are high in potassium (ions). You need potassium in your diet. Potassium is important in your body as a means of transferring information from cell to cell.
the potassium is a part of a stable compound