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Have you seen Back to the Future?

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.

Wouldn't organic bananas avoid that?

I wouldn't count on it, as there are varying definitions of organic.

A few pesticides are quite toxic to humans. Most aren't. There are some (e.g. cypermethrin) with no known lethal dose in humans.

Though they apparently are radioactive! :)

I like the "Banana Equivalent Dose" measurement:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose