diff --git a/js/src/object/get.js b/js/src/object/get.js
index 8a960aaa..c5f4e227 100644
--- a/js/src/object/get.js
+++ b/js/src/object/get.js
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ const bs58 = require('bs58')
 const series = require('async/series')
 const hat = require('hat')
 const { getDescribe, getIt, expect } = require('../utils/mocha')
+const UnixFs = require('ipfs-unixfs')
+const crypto = require('crypto')
+const CID = require('cids')
 
 module.exports = (createCommon, options) => {
   const describe = getDescribe(options)
@@ -285,5 +288,23 @@ module.exports = (createCommon, options) => {
         }
       ], done)
     })
+
+    it('supplies unadulterated data', () => {
+      // has to be big enough to span several DAGNodes
+      const data = crypto.randomBytes(1024 * 300)
+
+      return ipfs.files.add({
+        path: '',
+        content: data
+      })
+        .then((result) => {
+          return ipfs.object.get(result[0].hash)
+        })
+        .then((node) => {
+          const meta = UnixFs.unmarshal(node.data)
+
+          expect(meta.fileSize()).to.equal(data.length)
+        })
+      })
   })
 }
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 34ba8ce6..333125c8 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
     "dirty-chai": "^2.0.1",
     "hat": "0.0.3",
     "ipfs-block": "~0.7.1",
+    "ipfs-unixfs": "~0.1.15",
     "ipld-dag-cbor": "~0.12.1",
     "ipld-dag-pb": "~0.14.5",
     "is-ipfs": "~0.3.2",