Eli5 how is it that you can get sick eating a tiny bit of moldy bread? How does your stomach acid not annihilate the mold

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Eli5 how is it that you can get sick eating a tiny bit of moldy bread? How does your stomach acid not annihilate the mold

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Unless you have an extremely weak immune system, a tiny bit of moldy bread won’t do anything to you. As the amount of mold increases, the chance of sickness increases, for reasons others have already described.