Eli5: Why do you not eat moldy food, but eat moldy cheese

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Eli5: Why do you not eat moldy food, but eat moldy cheese

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You should not eat *any* moldy cheese. Only the cheeses that were intentionally made to be moldy. Those strains of mold were intentionally put in the cheese and are safe to eat. If your cheese wasn’t moldy when you bought it but has mold now, throw it out!

We don’t tend to do the same thing for breads (they’d go stale in the time it’d take to grow a worthwhile mold), so all mold on bread is wild mold and may be bad for you.