Moldy Bread: To Eat Or Not To Eat

You know those times when you have a large loaf of bread at home that you didn't finish the day you bought it, and then you leave it out on the table or you put it in the fridge and the next time you take it out to eat it, you notice those dubious green and grey spots and flecks on it. You debate within yourself, "should I just peel off the mold and eat it? I could toast it and it would still be nicely edible, or should I just toss the whole thing in the bin?"

The first thing to note about bread molds is they go deeper into the loaf than you think, so while you think it will make sense to simple cut off or peel off the green patch, there is still more of the mold inside the rest of it. Just thinking about that makes me go ewww.

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So this is not a good idea:

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Actually, ingesting some fungus (mold is fungus) probably won't kill you and might not even make you sick, but there is always a high chance that where there is mold, some bacteria is growing along with it, so the best thing to do when your bread gets moldy is to throw it away. To preserve bread for longer, you should freeze it and thaw it when you want to eat it.

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