Do x-rays damage food?

Everyday I use the subway to travel and I carry my lunch and water with me. As one enters the subway one is required to put one's bag through an x-ray machine. For long I have wondered if this machine is damaging my food. I think it is, intuitively speaking, but I have no way to tell.

I also have no choice except to not carry food, which means to skip lunch, because the security staff would not allow me to not pass my food and water through the x-ray machine. Also, I wonder if the raw vegetables and fruits I order have been through x-rays already at airports and on the road, so they are already damaged to some extent.

I live in New Delhi, India. From memory, I think that in other cities in the world subways do not have x-ray scanning of one's luggage but here it seems different, or perhaps the times are changing everywhere.

For my body, I avoid x-rays as far as I can. If the doctor asks for an x-ray, or an MRI, or ultrasound, I wouldn't get one done unless it is a very serious condition that I may have. I usually keep my phone off or in flight mode to minimise radiation from it.

Reading this today made my skepticism towards x-rays stronger -

http://healthland.time.com/2011/11/21/europe-bans-airport-x-ray-scanners-should-the-u-s-follow-suit/

Is your food put through x-rays?

Do you think x-rays damage food? If yes, what can one do? I usually carry lots of fruit, perhaps I could cover it with foil or something of that sort.

Would you eat chocolate or other such stuff that has been through x-rays at the airport? I imagine that most of us have been through this situation some time or the other, if not on a daily basis like myself.

Even if one avoids x-rays, there is radiation through wi-fi networks and cellphones all the time which must be affecting the body and the food one carries. There was a time when I thought there is no point switching off my phone or not carrying it because in the room I am in there are 10 other people with one phone each or more, so I am already inundated with radiation. But I still prefer a quiet, slow life so I leave the phone behind or keep it off, only to use for music.
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