Your Salad Is Trying To Kill You

The dose makes the poison…
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Plants are the most important source of nutrients for pretty much all of Earth's animals, and many of the planet's bacteria and fungi too. Humans like them so much that we line them up in salad bars so we can feast upon their crunchy cronch by the plate full.

But plants don't always want to be eaten, ya know? Here's a look at some of our favorite plant flavors and how they are actually a form of chemical warfare
We owe caterpillars for spicy mustard:

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It's Okay To Be Smart is written and hosted by Joe Hanson, Ph.DFollow me on Twitter: @jtotheizzoe
Email me: itsokaytobesmart AT gmail DOT com

Joe Hanson - Creator/Host/Writer
Joe Nicolosi - Director
Amanda Fox - Producer, Spotzen IncKate Eads - Producer
Andrew Matthews - Editing/Motion Graphics/Animation
Katie Graham - Camera
John Knudsen - Gaffer

Theme music: "Ouroboros" by Kevin MacLeod

Other music via APM
Stock images from Shutterstock, stock footage from Videoblocks

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[theImprobableSteve]

So, in summary, vegetables are in fact trying to kill me, they're just very bad at it.

[iceypumpkinhead]

"Dramatization"
So butterflies don't shoot Lasers and Plants don't shoot nukes? :(

[dan-gheorghe]

My salad tried to stab me with a knife.

[rod]

The title was clever it is not a clickbait after all

[ellieadorabizzle]

Joe: humans love mustards! But insects hate it
Me: wait... ARE YOU CALLING ME A INSECT???

[austinmctier]

4:53 That was the moment that Mr.Nuts knew he fucked up.

[themarsquatch]

That butterfly exploding made my night xD.

[koibubbles]

“On Monday, it ate a whole apple, but it was still hungry.”
“On Tuesday, it ate some broccoli.”



“And died.”

My favorite part of the video
I couldn’t stop laughing

[maxmccormick]

My salad tryed to choke me when I was eating it.

[JamesTheFoxeArt]

3:21 I love this animation style and his death reaction

[besmart]

I'm sincerely sorry for the error!

[bassisku]

Great use of effects/pictures. One of my favorite episodes!

[amcghie]

Those dramatizations were hilarious, I'm going to be cutting about looking for exploding squirrels from now on

[itwhoitisme]

" your salad is trying to kill you"
I knew it

[danielturunen]

I really love the combination of science and humor in the videos! Keep up the good work! :)

[mancheaseskrelpher]

Those dramatizations made my day. I want to see butterflies shooting down nuclear weapons with lasers now.

[luciferbroke]

Here we see a doctor thinking that chewing a jalapeno for an outro was a good idea. It made me feel good about all of my wrong decisions in my life.

[kennovamc]

Reads title.
Immediate responds: Checkmate Vegans.

[spociteold]

Mom: eat your vegetables!

Me: But it’s trying to kill me

Mom: you liar

Mom: give me proof

*Shows video*

[queenofbel]

I think we should just rename birds "Flynosaurs" already.