You ever eat any moldy food after removing the mold?

[Dave9]

^ False, pickles are not rotten cucumbers. Salt and vinegar (or other acids) stop mold and harmful bacteria (up to a point), although if you cold pack rather than blanching, that point comes much sooner.

I urge you to research blanching and pH levels for food preservation.

Mold... Yes I'll eat the food. I do trim a fair bit off past the mold, and am not particularly concerned about ingesting a minor amount that remains, nor should any sane person because that mold was in the air you're breathing anyway, is how it got there more often than not.

I don't mean no matter what I'm eating it, there are limits to how badly something is molded. Use common sense.

 

[MoneyJohn]

Nope, NEVER.

The reason, if you are seeing the mold, hyphae are already all under/over the material. If you remove the part that you see mold, you are still eating the mold with invisible/microscopic hyphae. The human body is not designed to digest mycotoxins (toxins out of the mold), so if you eat a few times, you may not notice much but if your health is not well and your body is already taxed (with or without symptoms), it is going to catch up with you over the period of time.
And there is no medication that will help you digest these mycotoxins.

Getting rid of mold is one of the toughest jobs (whether it is inside the body or outside) and diagnosing mold toxicity is even more difficult. Been there, done that.

Edible mold (in cheese and stuff) is different than the mold that grows on bread or walls.

 

[Olas]

Eating a little bit of mould is good for you - it develops the immune system. As kids we used to play in the mud, eat worms, roll around in the woods playing soldiers, dig holes and climb trees and we were exposed to all kinds of bacteria and spores and etc etc etc - it didn't do us ay harm, it made us stronger!

So eat mouldy food and dont worry! If you have an immune system it won't hurt you..

 

[SwampSurvivor]

My grandmother used to. Her friend Mildred Blue told her they made the penicillin from mold so it must be good to eat.

 

[quint]

I used to work in a members only wholesale club back in the early 90's (they were worldwide at the time but I think they are mostly defunct now) and occasionally I got stuck working the cold storage food area. The guys in the dairy department would routinely bring in these shrink wrapped blocks of cheese that we sold in 5-10 lb blocks. After sitting on display too long they would mold, and some of them got pretty green and gross looking. They would take them off display, bring them in the back, unwrap them and put them on a stainless steel cutting table. He would take out this Chinese samurai looking knife and wah-CHUNK all six sides off the block to remove all the exposed mold until it looked good as new, pick it up, flick off any remaining pieces of mold he would see, then took it over to the shrink wrap machine, re-wrapped it and put it on the scale and slapped a new pricing label on it. Out through the swinging doors back out into the display for sale. The first time I saw this he came back and I said "Did you really just do that? That thing was full of mold" and he just gave me that you-must-be-new-around-here kind of look and said yea we do that all the time, those blocks of cheese were expensive and they didn't want to take a loss. I never bought cheese there.

When I go to make a sandwich if I see any mold on any of the slices I toss the whole loaf out, but there have been times when I ate a sandwich, only to get towards the end before noticing the whole bottom crust was coated green with mold. It grosses me out and I'll stop eating it right then and there but I cant honestly say I have ever gotten sick from it.

 

[supton]

Nope. I've removed mold and eaten the rest, and it's tasted off IIRC (been years since I've done it, like college days when I was poor). I figure, it's gone to mold for a reason, it's time to let it out to pasture.

 

[Kira]

Yes
There was a store with a grand cheese section. I'd pick out any packages with mold and put them on the cheese warden's table.
They were all grateful.

 

[RISUPERCREWMAN]

🤮🤢🥴

 

[Alfred_B]

Originally Posted by Miller88
My grandmother used to. Her friend Mildred Blue told her they made the penicillin from mold so it must be good to eat.

SMH in the penicillin comment.

But there is usually nothing harmful about this. Some molds may create toxins but most are harmful.

Does anyone think that the prepackaged food we consume doesn't have stuff in it we would rather not know?

 

[2004tdigls]

Originally Posted by atikovi
And I don't mean cheese. Like a ciabatta roll I ate with dinner which had two small bits of mold I tore off first.


really bad idea, the mold emits toxins into the food as it grows

the toxins can cause diarrhea disease and nausea

No, you only see part of the mold on the surface of food — gray fur on forgotten bologna, fuzzy green dots on bread, white dust on Cheddar, coin-size velvety circles on fruits, and furry growth on the surface of jellies. When a food shows heavy mold growth, "root" threads have invaded it deeply. In dangerous molds, poisonous substances are often contained in and around these threads. In some cases, toxins may have spread throughout the food.


BTW I know what I am talking about, I have been employed as a Health Inspector for the last 3 decades

 

[WyrTwister]

I have read some , maybe all , cheeses are washed in vinegar to remove mold ?

 

[Quattro Pete]

Originally Posted by Alfred_B
Does anyone think that the prepackaged food we consume doesn't have stuff in it we would rather not know?

But that doesn't mean you should make matters worse by knowingly stuffing yourself with mold.

 

[Bud]

Nope, goes right into the trash.

 

[PandaBear]

Originally Posted by tundraotto
If there is mold on there - there are spores all over the whole bread. Not that you will die....but you will eat mold.


Correct.

Human can tolerate a small amount, so you will be safe for a short term, but if you do it every day it is not good for you.

 

[GZRider]

Loaf of bread $2
Cost of hospital stay for ergot or botulism poisoning $1500-$250,000+
There are some things money cannot buy, common sense is evidently one of them.
Spoiled food is not fit for consumption.

 

[atikovi]

Never said to eat spoiled food, just remove the bad parts.

 

[gman2304]

What's that thing in the fridge? / What color is it? / Green! / It's either old meat or new cheese!

 

[DBMaster]

 

[Al]

Heck yea.on bread and cheese. Just scrape it off

 

[SwampSurvivor]

Originally Posted by quint
I used to work in a members only wholesale club back in the early 90's (they were worldwide at the time but I think they are mostly defunct now) and occasionally I got stuck working the cold storage food area. The guys in the dairy department would routinely bring in these shrink wrapped blocks of cheese that we sold in 5-10 lb blocks. After sitting on display too long they would mold, and some of them got pretty green and gross looking. They would take them off display, bring them in the back, unwrap them and put them on a stainless steel cutting table. He would take out this Chinese samurai looking knife and wah-CHUNK all six sides off the block to remove all the exposed mold until it looked good as new, pick it up, flick off any remaining pieces of mold he would see, then took it over to the shrink wrap machine, re-wrapped it and put it on the scale and slapped a new pricing label on it. Out through the swinging doors back out into the display for sale. The first time I saw this he came back and I said "Did you really just do that? That thing was full of mold" and he just gave me that you-must-be-new-around-here kind of look and said yea we do that all the time, those blocks of cheese were expensive and they didn't want to take a loss. I never bought cheese there.

When I go to make a sandwich if I see any mold on any of the slices I toss the whole loaf out, but there have been times when I ate a sandwich, only to get towards the end before noticing the whole bottom crust was coated green with mold. It grosses me out and I'll stop eating it right then and there but I cant honestly say I have ever gotten sick from it.


My grandparents (mother's side) both worked in a cheese plant. This was normal for the cheese plant with the more expensive cheeses. Even before going to the store.