Why is it ok to eat blue cheese which has mold, but you can get sick if you eat anything else with mold?

Question

My friend asked me this and I have no idea how to answer her. It doesn't really make any sense to me why you can eat molding cheese but you can't eat molding bread or something else.

Answer 1

ew is all i have to say

Answer 2

Mold does NOT count as a serving of vegetables. Either throw out the cheese, or if its only a little bit, just cut it off and eat the rest, but make sure there's no more mold on the rest of the cheese.

Answer 3

Bleu (not blue) cheese is actually molded cheese. It was tested to be edible. Molded bread or other moldy food is known to be toxic and unpalatable.

Another example ; Mushrooms, certain ones like shiitake mushrooms are edible eating fungus (a type of mold). Some mushrooms that grow in grass in some other places such as the forest are highly toxic, creating hallucinations and later killing you.

Answer 4

Theres no such thing as blue cheese, theres bleu cheese though.

And there are other molds you can eat.

Cultured molds are used in the production of foods including cheese (Penicillium spp), tempeh (Rhizopus oligosporus), quorn (Fusarium venenatum), the black tea pu-erh and some sausages.

The koji molds are a group of Aspergillus species, notably Aspergillus oryzae, that have been cultured in eastern Asia for many centuries. They are used to ferment a soybean and wheat mixture to make soybean paste and soy sauce. They are also used to break down the starch in rice (saccharification) in the production of sake and other distilled spirits.

Other molds are cultivated for their ability to produce useful substances. Aspergillus niger is used in the production of citric acid, gluconic acid and many other compounds and enzymes. Alexander Fleming's famous discovery of the antibiotic penicillin involved the mold Penicillium notatum.

The molds Neurospora crassa and Aspergillus nidulans are commonly used model organisms.

Answer 5

Mold is good...mmmm! Roquefort Bleu cheese is a little too salty for me but if you ever have the chance to try Rogue Smokey Blue (yes, there is blue cheeses) you'll think you've died and went to heaven and will never question molds in your BLUE/BLEU cheeses. Throw it on a water cracker with some chives, mmmm!!!

Answer 6

Molds in general are not bad. There are specific molds that have parasitic tendencies that harms humans and other organisms. Other molds add flavor to foods, like bleu cheese.

Answer 7

There are harmful molds, and beneficial ones. Penicillin is made from beneficial mold for example. The mold in bleu cheese is beneficial, while TOXIC molds like black mold that grows in some old, damp houses...is very dangerous.

Answer 8

I've heard that some medicines today has some kind of mold in them, but only very little bit such as 5 grams per liter or so of liquid in the antibiotics.

Answer 9

When I was a kid my mom would pack my lunch for school and the bread sometimes had mold on it. I ate it anyway or I would have nothing to eat.

Answer 10

Because the strains of mold they use in cheese is not deadly to humans.

Answer 11

just cut the part of the cheese that has mold off, i did that with a piece of cheddar and nothing happened to me!