When food gets too old, it can begin to mold. Mold consists of molds that can form mold toxins. This process cannot be seen with the naked eye and this means that the mold toxins can spread in large parts of the food, even if it does not appear to be particularly moldy.
The Swedish Food Agency therefore advises against eating food that has gone mouldy, but there are some exceptions, they write on their website.
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Food that can be eaten even though it has gone moldy
It is possible to eat certain foods even though they have gone mouldy, and this is because the mold toxins have difficulty spreading in them. Here are some of them:
But of course you shouldn’t eat the mold itself. To avoid accidentally eating mold, the Swedish Food Agency recommends that you cut off at least two centimeters from the mold, and you can eat the rest.
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Marie-Louise Danielsson Thamprofessor of food hygiene, tells i News morning about which foods you should be extra careful with if they show signs of mold. This is based on the fact that mold toxins spread very easily in these products. Some foods that you should not eat if there are signs of mold are:
– Jam and juice contain a lot of water, and it’s not the fluff on the mold itself that is dangerous, but what is dangerous are the toxins that the mold has formed in the food. This poison is water-soluble and then you realize that yes, the more water there is in the food, the more the mold toxins spread, she says in the program.
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