diff --git a/from.js b/from.js
index 546edfa..bdca282 100644
--- a/from.js
+++ b/from.js
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ class BlobDataItem {
 	constructor(options) {
 		this.size = options.size;
 		this.path = options.path;
-		this.start = options.start;
+		this.start = options.start || 0;
 		this.mtime = options.mtime;
 	}
 
diff --git a/test.js b/test.js
index b6cf1a8..a38c8fe 100644
--- a/test.js
+++ b/test.js
@@ -163,6 +163,15 @@ test('Reading after modified should fail', async t => {
 	t.is(error.name, 'NotReadableError');
 });
 
+test('Reading from the stream created by blobFrom', async t => {
+	const blob = blobFrom('./LICENSE');
+	const expected = await fs.promises.readFile('./LICENSE', 'utf-8');
+
+	const actual = await getStream(blob.stream());
+
+	t.is(actual, expected);
+});
+
 test('Blob-ish class is an instance of Blob', t => {
 	class File {
 		stream() {}