How safe is mouldy food to eat?

How safe is mouldy food to eat?(bbc.co.uk)

40 points by ianox 11 years ago | 10 comments

I'd say that eating moldy foods is substantially similar to eating wild mushrooms.

If you can't identify the mold species with certainty, don't.

mod 11 years ago |

This article didn't do much to answer the question, quite frankly.

jamesbrownuhh 11 years ago | |

"News" articles like these are really just pretty thin publicity for TV shows. The intent is to fill some space but mainly to get you interested enough that when you get to the end of the article and realise that it was all an advert, you're invested enough to make plans to watch the programme.

rasur 11 years ago |

Some quite delicious Cheeses contain mould :)

(although once, many years ago, I did do a blue cheese sauce to a meal, and gave myself and my wife a spectacular night and next day of... ejecta. Never going to forget that experience :( )

wmil 11 years ago |

If you're travelling and eating in a lot of questionable restaurants, grilled cheese is supposed to be one of the safest things to order. This article seems to agree.

alex_doom 11 years ago |

I wonder if rice is fine when it's been fried? Many times I've left out fried rice from a delivery for hours and eaten it later. Hmm.

shalmanese 11 years ago | |

Rice is one of the few foods that's particularly bad to leave out at room temperature due to B. Cereus causing Fried Rice Syndrome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_cereus

im3w1l 11 years ago |

I think this was a pretty good article. It walked through a list of common food items and told how safe they were to eat when old.

scottlocklin 11 years ago |

Seems to me most people are waaay too paranoid about this kind of thing. Refrigerators are a recent innovation.

joshdance 11 years ago |

This is a bad article. I gives very few rules, and even less resources to find out more.