Are you getting something moldy to eat?

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: what happens if you eat mold.

Gorgonzola, truffle over the pasta, fried mushrooms: some molds are just irresistible. But bread with blue spots or strawberries with fuzzy patches, yuck! What is mold anyway? And should you worry about your health if you accidentally took a bite of it?

Molds are therefore relatives of mushrooms, they can grow on anything that is even slightly moist. Cookies, or pre-baked bread or fruit, almost everything in your pantry can develop a layer of mold. Molds reproduce through mold spores, which grow at the end of mold threads. When they are ripe, they detach and blow through the fridge, the fruit bowl, or the pantry. This way, one moldy mandarin can infect the entire bag and then the rest of the fruit bowl.

Get rid of that bread
Bread with blue or black mold can no longer be eaten. Not even if just one slice is moldy, or if there is only a spot of mold on the crust. The spores of the mold are actually throughout the entire bread. Fruit with mold should also go straight into the bin. Jam with mold? Or a jar of applesauce? Throw it away, you can't just scrape off the mold. Exception: hard cheeses. You can cut off the moldy piece and just eat the rest if you still feel like it.

And now? Sick?
Suppose you take a bite of your sandwich, taste something weird, and then look closely: mold. Is that going to be a night on the toilet? No, moldy bread won't make you sick. The mold spores are not toxic, so you won't get food poisoning or something like that. Even if you are pregnant, or you have a fragile health, you don't have to worry. Just throw away the bread, nothing to worry about.