Is Microwaving the Food Bad?
Does it make the food radioactive?😐
Microwaving is a strange way of cooking food. 😁
Radiation is bombarded upon the food to heat it up.
Doesn’t it sound dangerous?
Will you eat the food that has been exposed to radiation?
Does it make the food radioactive?
Let's try to understand it.
The heating of matter when radiation falls upon it seems far-fetched.
However, in reality, it happens every day with objects and with your body as well.
Can you guess the scenario in which radiation falls upon you and your body heats up?
Let me rephrase: what falls upon your body and you feel warm.
Yes.
Sunlight
which is an electromagnetic radiation.
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The only difference between radiation from sunlight and microwaves is the wavelength of this radiation.
In fact, the name "microwave" comes from the wavelength of the radiation.
Most microwaves use radiation of a wavelength of 12.2 centimetres.
This corresponds to a frequency of 2.45 gigahertz (GHz),
So microwaving is basically putting your food in sunlight and heating it up.
Does that sound harmful to you?
It seems quite safe to me.🤷♂️
And it is safe
It does not make the food radioactive.
It does nothing to the food except heat it up.
Heating the food may lead to other things, which would be a topic of another story.😁
That's it for this story.
Do you know about the radiation which can actually make your food radioactive?
Stay tuned.
TATA👋
