How important is it to throw away produce when you see mold? Can't you just cut off the bad and eat the good?

Question

It seems like it's really hard to get sick from produce that's like this. Meat is a different story, because I eat meat about 3 or 4 times a year. I would throw meat away right at the first sign of it going bad.

Answer 1

Just throw it all away or you will get ill. Smetimes the mold spores can grow on the inside of veggies or fruit. Be careful!

Answer 2

You are correct about meat and other animal protein food. Discard for the slightest suspicion. Technically, the kind of mold that generally grows like on the top of my Hershey's canned syrup in the fridge, is essentially harmless. If you can wash it off food, the food should be safe. Some people are allergic to mold, though. And, there are ghastly new molds emerging due to global warming. Some molds are extremely dangerous. Never sniff at anything moldy, such as on clothes from a closet. Mold isn't a plant or an animal, but, it grows sorta like a plant. The critter responsible for the recent spinach illnesses was a bacteria called e coli. Nasty bug. I don't like bugs. That's why we wash produce. RN

Answer 3

With dairy and meat, you're right, you've gotta get rid of it sharpish, because it can cause you a lot of trouble.

However, I find that with most vegan stuff you can just cut off the bad bit and eat it - I use soya margerine and it goes off *sooo* quickly! But you can just take the icky bit out and use the rest... ditto with fruits and veg, take away the yicky bit and eat the rest. However, stuff like cereal or flour, you need to chuck it all away, because you just can't tell how far down the mold or mold spores go.

Answer 4

For the most part, the very worst you will experience if you are reasonably healthy is a serious case of the trots till you have expelled the toxins from your system. For most produce with a rind its not a big deal, but produce without a rind you need to be generous in what you cut off & make sure the flesh is still in good shape (not soft & runny in a partially decomposed state).

Answer 5

U r O.K. n doing thright thing.

Meats....once they go bad....must be thrown away......as they pomote bacterial growth........become petrified & contaminated with bacterial toxins.

If you have vegetables that are going a little moldy.......sure......cut off the bad n eat the good.

Our health is not dependent on a perfectly clean environment.........as that would be the quickest way to get sick, diseased & short lived!

Molds are really not all bad........the Chinese discovered ........ long ago........that eating a slightly moldy soya cakes......cured some sickness.

In later years the west discovered penicillin........an anti-biotic......that became so indispensible to modern medicine.

And this was what the Chinese used to cure certain diseases.........without naming that mold that was to be called penicillin!

A little 'dirt' is always good for our body system..... stimulating the production of our antibopdies.......... that combat the bacteria n viruses that invade our system.

Go on.......eat well......sleep well.....n have your regular exercises......n you'll live a very healthy, fit n happy life!

Take care...

Answer 6

Okay, my boyfriend and I argue over this. I think once a veggie is moldy and wilty, it is probably past its prime and not even worth the effort to prepare because it will taste like crap. When he wins this argument (about 1/2 the time), we eat it anyway and we haven't died or gotten sick from it yet. I do know that with cheese, you can cut off the moldy part and eat the remainder and it's perfectly fine.

Answer 7

If you do it all the time it is OK if you don't have an immune system built up go slow. Same with people who go to mexico get sick eating the same stuff the locals eat and drink the same water. I cut the bad stuff off because it tastes bad.

Answer 8

It's okay to cut off green mold from cheese and eat the unaffected cheese. If vegetables, fruits, or cooked foods have visible mold, you should throw them out rather than risk being sickened through eating them.

Answer 9

sure go ahead and eat it...wash it real good and cut off the infected area....

what do you think they do when its at the grocery store before its shelved...

or when they get it to the shippers station after picking...

have you ever got a bad apple in a bag and had to toss 1 or 2 away...and still ate the others in the bag...its the same difference...

no big deal anyways...penicillin is made from mold...and so are mushrooms too...

just be sure to wash all produce its very important I would be more worried in the pesticides anyways...

enjoy your eating....

Answer 10

well i just read an article in Jane magazine either last month or the month before about people getting their food and produce from the dumpsters that grocery stores throw out. its called freeganism if i remember right.

there's tons of people who do it and cut the bad parts off the veggies and eat em. why waste good food. plus penicillin is made from mold dude.