History Main / MutagenicFood

* The titular creatures from ''VideoGame/{{Bugsnax}}'' combine this with AnthropomorphicFood, as they're described as "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin half bug, half snak]]", and anyone who eats them has a random body part resemble a part of the Bugsnak they ate. The effects are temporary [[spoiler:unless you eat too many. At that point, they [[TheAssimilator assimilate]] your mind and body into their collectiveness to turn you into more Bugsnax.]]

* The titular creatures from ''VideoGame/{{Bugsnax}}'' combine this with AnthropomorphicFood, as they're described as "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin half bug, half snak]]", and anyone who eats them has a random body part resemble a part of the Bugsnak they ate.

* The titular creatures from ''VideoGame/{{Bugsnax}}'' combine this with AnthropomorphicFood, as they're described as "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin half bug, half snak]]", and anyone who eats them has a random body part turn resemble a part of the Bugsnak they ate.

* When Silkie, the WesternAnimation/TeenTitans' TeamPet was introduced, he ate some of Starfire's alien zorkaberries, which promptly turned him into an unstoppable (though still cuddly) behemoth.

* ''Corruption of Champions'' has this as a major game mechanic. Various items and potions can bestow transformations on you, slowly turning you into animal or monstrous forms representative of their origin. "Canine Peppers", for example, subtly alter your physiology into a more... canine form, while "Whisker Fruit" makes you more catlike. Items of opposed species will soon cancel out each other's transformations- and overdosing on certain transformation items will [[BalefulPolymorph turn you permanently]] into that animal, resulting in a bad ending for you.

* Another episode revolves around a [[GiantFood giant carrot]] engineered by the military to make whoever eats it [[MiracleGroMonster grow]] before exploding.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' pilot "The Chicken From Outer Space", eating alien eggs causes Eustace to [[BodyHorror transform into a monstrous chicken man]].

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* Tamaki Amajiki[=/=]Suneater from ''Anime/MyHeroAcademia'' has a Quirk known as "Reappearance", which allows him to change parts of his body into the body parts of things that he eats (if he eats takoyaki, he gains CombatTentacles, he gain wings and talons from fried chicken, and clam allows him to turn his hands into clam shells). His power also works as a form of PowerCopying: if he eat part of his opponent's body, he will gain their powers.
* Wapol from ''Franchise/OnePiece'' can do this thanks to eating the Munch-Munch Fruit (''Baku Baku no Mi'').
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->''"You are what you eat" said a wise old man,''
->''Lord, if that's true I'm a garbage can.''

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* Tamaki Amajiki[=/=]Suneater from ''Anime/MyHeroAcademia'' has Quirk known as "Reappearance", which allows him to change parts of his body into the body parts of things that he eats (if he eats takoyaki, he gains CombatTentacles, he gain wings and talons from fried chicken, and clam allows him to turn his hands into clam shells). His power also works as a form of PowerCopying: if he eat part of his oponent's body, he will gain their powers.

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** In the serial "[[CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase Delta and the Bannermen]]" a character called Billy [[TooDumbToLive intentionally]] eats some "[[MutagenicGoo royal jelly]]" so he can [[BeingHumanSucks turn into an alien]] to be with the CuteAlienGirl he has [[LoveAtFirstSight fallen in love with]] and [[AdamAndEvePlot repopulate her race]] with her. And they lived HappilyEverAfter.
** In "Planet of the Ood", Ood Sigma slowly turns Halpen into an Ood by spiking his hair tonic.
* In ''Series/{{Thats So Raven}}'' Chelsea accidentally ate a hamburger on Halloween. It starts a chain of events that results in her and Raven turning themselves into cows.

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* Some opposers of GMO food fear this is true whenever food includes "mutations" ([[YouFailBiologyForever or even "DNA"]]). Mutations happen spontaneously in all living organisms, allowing for such things as natural evolution. There could be a infinitisimally small chance that not all the vectors used for transgenic modification were integrated into the nuclei of the GMO, but the stomach produces enzymes that break down DNA.

* Tamaki Amajiki[=/=]Suneater from ''Anime/MyHeroAcademia'' has a superpower kwnow as "Reappearance", which allows him to change parts of his body into the body parts of things that he eats. His power also works as a form of PowerCopying: if he eat part of his oponent's body, he will gain their superpowers.

* The ''[[Franchise/SaGaRPG SaGa]]'' series has edible monster meat. In some games it can turn any character into a monster (opposed by cybernetics/robotic upgrades), and in all titles it allows monsters to grow more powerful and/or become a different type of monster.

* The ''VideoGame/{{SaGa}}'' series has edible monster meat. In some games it can turn any character into a monster (opposed by cybernetics/robotic upgrades), and in all titles it allows monsters to grow more powerful and/or become a different type of monster.

* Wapol from ''OnePiece'' can do this thanks to eating the Munch-Munch Fruit (''Baku Baku no Mi'').

* In a HalloweenEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', Cornchip Girl eats some untested corn chips imported from Britain, which turn her into an evil little [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]].

* In ''[[AlienatorsEvolutionContinues Evolution:]] TheAnimatedSeries'', Wayne ended up spending the series mutating into a new form OncePerEpisode after accidentally eating one of the alien cells in the first episode.

* TheMagicSchoolBus showed a RealLife example with carrots. Arnold ate nothing but carrot-based snacks for days and turned orange.

* In ''Series/{{Thats So Raven}}'' Chelsea accidentally ate a hamburger on Halloween. It starts a chain of events that results in her and Raven turning themselves into cows.

* In an episode of ''ThePowerpuffGirls'', a boy transforms into a giant glue moster after eating radioactive glue.

* In ''Royal Jelly'', a short story by Creator/RoaldDahl, the eponymous substance [[spoiler:slowly transforms a baby into a ''Queen bee'' larva]].
* In Creator/StephenKing's short story ''Grey Matter'', [[spoiler:a can of contaminated beer turns a man into a shambling fungoid horror]].

* Eating too many carrots, or anything else with beta-carotene, can cause your skin cells to absorb the pigment, causing you to turn carrot-coloured. [[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/too-much-sunny-delight-turns-girls-skin-yellow-1134703.html Drinkers of Sunny Delight have also suffered this]].