So some cheeses seem to be toxic for you if you eat them when they have mold on them, while others are mainly being consumed when they get moldy. Why is it so that some types of cheese will make you sick, while you can eat others without a problem?
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The same reason that you can eat mushrooms but no death caps. Both are fungus. The mold on cheese is also a fungus. Some of them are delicious some are deadly. Many centuries ago people found out which molds are mit Dangerous and they saw, that If theese molds grow on their food it prevented other molds from growing. So the food was longer edible by adding the right Kind of mold.
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