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    Mold and fungus are commonly found in foods. While some molds are visible, most are microscopic and hidden inside foods. Even if only a small section of mold is visible, the roots have likely spread throughout the food. Consuming moldy foods risks ingesting toxic waste and poisons produced by molds that can cause serious illness. Simply cutting off moldy sections does not ensure safety, as the entire contaminated food should be discarded. Mold spreads easily through microscopic spores carried by air. Both mold and its poisons can survive cooking temperatures, so heating contaminated foods is not a reliable way to eliminate the health risks. While some molds like penicillin have useful medical applications, others like those found in peanuts

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    Mold and fungus are commonly found in foods. While some molds are visible, most are microscopic and hidden inside foods. Even if only a small section of mold is visible, the roots have likely spread throughout the food. Consuming moldy foods risks ingesting toxic waste and poisons produced by molds that can cause serious illness. Simply cutting off moldy sections does not ensure safety, as the entire contaminated food should be discarded. Mold spreads easily through microscopic spores carried by air. Both mold and its poisons can survive cooking temperatures, so heating contaminated foods is not a reliable way to eliminate the health risks. While some molds like penicillin have useful medical applications, others like those found in peanuts

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    Mold and fungus are commonly found in foods. While some molds are visible, most are microscopic and hidden inside foods. Even if only a small section of mold is visible, the roots have likely spread throughout the food. Consuming moldy foods risks ingesting toxic waste and poisons produced by molds that can cause serious illness. Simply cutting off moldy sections does not ensure safety, as the entire contaminated food should be discarded. Mold spreads easily through microscopic spores carried by air. Both mold and its poisons can survive cooking temperatures, so heating contaminated foods is not a reliable way to eliminate the health risks. While some molds like penicillin have useful medical applications, others like those found in peanuts

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    inside the food products.

    If there is any mold or fungus on


    the food product, that means that it is only a small part of
    the mold. Most of it is not visible with the human eye. They
    can be of different colors; blue, green, white, pink or even
    black. Most of the mold and fungus are hidden in the food,
    and are not visible, but they can be tasted. It is therefore
    useless to cut of the part where the mold or fungus is, as the
    “roots” are already in the food product. Best thing is to spoil
    the entire food product to make sure nothing stays behind to
    “infect” other products. Mold and fungus multiply
    themselves with very small cells, that can easily be picked
    up by the wind and go to other places in the food preparation
    areas. These tiny little cells or trails also called, are not
    visible and extremely easy to be spread out around a very
    wide range.

    A not so pleasant part of fungus and mold is the forming of a


    very poison waste, which can cause severe illness for
    humans and animals. This is not known by most people.
    This poison can be (but not always) in the food products that
    contains mold or fungus. This is one more reason to spoil
    products that contains mold or fungus, rather than cutting of
    the piece that is infected.

    Mold and fungus dies at a temperature of 100 gr. C, but their


    poison not!!! So, there is no solution to “kill” this poison.
    Once the poison gets into the body, it can cause serious
    illness and hospitalization is necessary.

    Useful mold and fungus

    The most famous one is the penicillum glaucum (Latin). This


    one produces as a waste the Penicillin which is used as
    treatment for many bacteria caused diseases.
    With the preparation of cheese like brie, camembert and
    blue cheese the mold is a key player. It gives a very pleasant
    flavor to those cheeses.
    A very well-known fungus is the mushroom, which is in the
    nature a very good utility to breakdown “wastes”. Most
    mushrooms are edible, but there are certain types which are
    very poison and some even deadly. Make sure when buying
    mushrooms, the supplier has proper knowledge and that you
    can trust that supplier. It is not recommended to buy
    mushrooms from people that gather the mushrooms
    themselves from the forest.

    Harmful mold and fungus

    Harmful mold is the ones that comes on bread. These ones


    contains the previous described poison. Also there is a mold
    that comes in peanuts (non-visible) and is deadly to humans
    and animals. This mold is called “aflatoxine” The problem
    with these molds and fungus is so big, that it killed the entire

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