Eli5 your food has mold so you throw it out. Except for cheese, you just cut off that bit and keep going. Why is molded cheese still safe to eat, unlike bread or chicken?

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Eli5 your food has mold so you throw it out. Except for cheese, you just cut off that bit and keep going. Why is molded cheese still safe to eat, unlike bread or chicken?

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There are lots of good answers here, but it’s worth rememebering, “mold” is like the flowering part of a weed. Cutting off the blue bits, doesn’t necessarily cut out the “roots”.