Find out just how deadly the chemicals in your food are. Download Buzzfeed's Free New App - http://bit.ly/NewBFApp Share on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/12jEPaN (you can change the text) Share on Twitter: http://bit.ly/12CPXTt (you can change the tweet) We all know there are toxic chemicals in our everyday food. But just how dangerous are they really? We take a look at artificial food dyes, potassium bromate, azodicarbonamide, arsenic, and olestra to find out if the birthday cake, chicken, and bread we eat are actually poison. Adapted from this BuzzFeed post: http://www.buzzfeed.com/ashleyperez/8... Video and voice-over by Kevin McShane http://www.buzzfeed.com/kevinmcshane -------------------------- Music: Manhattan_Mathematics by Hpnotic718 http://soundcloud.com/hpnotic718/manh... Credits: Daddy's birthday cake / Brian Snelson http://www.flickr.com/photos/exfordy/... Sports drinks / Clean Wal-Mart http://www.flickr.com/photos/cleanwal... Cheese Plate with Sriracha / Refracted Moments http://www.flickr.com/photos/refracte... Candy! / Jeff Adair http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffadai... VooDooFrootLoop Macro / Carolyn Coles http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolync... uma chuva de balas para Elisa / Mauren Veras http://www.flickr.com/photos/22321813... crazy Jonathan / airwaves1 http://www.flickr.com/photos/airwaves... "The Brain Show" / TEDxPioneerValley2012 http://www.flickr.com/photos/tedxpion... Happy Birthday Buddy / Jim D http://www.flickr.com/photos/jkdevlee... Bread / Dave Pullig http://www.flickr.com/photos/41061319... Veggie Wrap with Eggplant Dip / Vegan Feast Catering http://www.flickr.com/photos/veganfea... Toasted Bread Crumbs / Naotake Murayama http://www.flickr.com/photos/naotakem... National Museum of Health and Medicine / MilitaryHealth http://www.flickr.com/photos/military... Rat tumor 01 / Suzanne Phillips http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyborgsu... Bread dough / Jamal Fanaian http://www.flickr.com/photos/jfanaian... Instant Meals Yummie! pt1 / Feike Kloostra http://www.flickr.com/photos/letsgoro... mac and cheese / Lisa Yarost http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisa_yar... Poison / Andrew Kuznetsov http://www.flickr.com/photos/-cavin-/... Sugarland aka Supermarket (5 of 10) http://www.flickr.com/photos/vox_efx/... Bombs Away / Daniel Oines http://www.flickr.com/photos/dno1967b... Tight shirt on overweight female body, taken close up OtnaYdur / Shutterstock.com Two glass bottles of poison Andrei Kuzmik / Shutterstock.com Socrates Drinking The Conium. Engraved by unknown engraver Georgios Kollidas / Shutterstock.com Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest Champions Attend Official Weigh-In Mario Tama / Getty Images Good Eating Habits (1951) http://archive.org/details/GoodEati1951 Technicolor for Industrial Films (ca. 1949) http://archive.org/details/Technico1949 Childhood Asthma Management Program: Group 1 (1996) http://archive.org/details/gov.ntis.A... 1955 Commercial for Swanson TV Turkey Dinner (1955) http://archive.org/details/1955Commer... Mark of Wholesome Meat, A (1964) http://archive.org/details/MarkofWh1964 Chicken of Tomorrow, The (1948) http://archive.org/details/Chickeno1948 Kepercayaan Publik (Public Trust!) https://vimeo.com/11859739 -------------------------- GET MORE BUZZFEED: www.buzzfeed.com www.buzzfeed.com/video www.youtube.com/buzzfeed www.youtube.com/buzzfeedvideo www.youtube.com/buzzfeedyellow www.youtube.com/cnnbuzzfeed BuzzFeed is the world's first true social news organization. Featuring tasty, short, fun, inspiring, funny, interesting videos from the BuzzFeed. /BuzzFeedVideo is BuzzFeed's original YouTube Channel, with a focus on producing great short-form BuzzFeed videos for YouTube (and the world!). BuzzFeed Video will entertain, educate, spark conversation, inspire and delight. Subscribe to BuzzFeedVideo today and check us out at http://buzzfeed.com