You may think that the only way for your favorite foods to kill you is if they spoil and kill you with an influx of horrifying bacteria. You'd be wrong. With one mistake in preparation, even the most common foods can quickly wipe you out. Learn more below.

As it turns out, even the most wonderfully common foods that we all know and love, like rhubarb, potatoes, and apples, can put you down if you prepare them improperly or if you eat them to excess.

With frightening chemicals like arsenic and oxalic acid occurring naturally in them, the last thing you'd want is to mess around with these ingredients improperly.

And for those of you thinking about trying out the psychoactive nutmeg (it's actually banned in Saudi Arabia because of this property) with the junk in your spice drawer, you're wasting your time; it's only the raw form that has this property.