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Wow wait where can't you eat mushrooms from? This is new to me as a European.

The bavarian forests are partially still strongly contaminated in the ground. As a result, certain species of mushrooms can collect radioactive contamination. And wild boar likes to eat mushrooms, so can be even stronger contaminated over time. In general you can eat mushroooms and wild boar, but it is recommended to do so not too regularly, if they come from one of the stronger affected parts.

There are also restrictions on livestock and game in Northern Europe, in areas from Britain to Finland.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2019/06/08/chernobyl...

I've never heard that either. Can't be correct.

"I've never heard of it, so it can't be true" is a terrifyingly bad standard to set.

https://www.bfs.de/EN/topics/ion/environment/foodstuffs/mush...

> As a result of the Chernobyl reactor accident, certain species of mushrooms and wild game are still highly contaminated with caesium-137 in some areas of Germany.

Highly contaminated is a strong word. You'd have to eat 20kg+ of those mushrooms according to that article to reach your annual recommended amount of radition for the year. Considering how long it would take to pick 20kg of wild mushrooms I think you would be at it for a while.

Bananas are also radioactive - those mushrooms maybe an order or two of magnitude more.

20 kg doesn't sound too much at all. I know some people who pick a few dozen buckets of mushrooms every year.

I've just made an Ottolenghi recipe-based mushroom lasagne with 2.4 kg mushrooms the other week. Eaten over two days, very delicious and wouldn't mind it more often.

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