Talk:Radioactive Vegetables/@comment-69.76.235.36-20200106055928

Even if the seeds were radioactive, the vegetables that grew from the seeds would not be. The seeds use nutrients and moisture from the ground and CO2 from the air to "build" the vegetables. But the radiation from the atoms in the seeds would not cause other atoms to become radioactive. There may be some slight amount of radiation from leftover seed atoms, but it would be significantly diluted as compared to the seeds themselves.

However, the radiation could have affected the DNA in the seeds which is what caused the carrots to look like a cow's udder, the "pretzel" green beans, and the "budget" corn.