12 Foods You Didn't Know Could Kill You

But death by candy is actually pretty hard to pull off. In order to give yourself a 50-50 chance of consuming a lethal amount, you'd need to ingest 13.5 grams of sugar for each pound of your body weight — and you'd have to do it all in one sitting, according to the American Chemical Society.The fatal dose of sucrose is 5 oz per pound of your body weight. This means that a man would need to eat 55 lb of sugar in one go, which equals approximately 500 teaspoons.