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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If meat is showing mold, it actually went bad a while ago. Bread isn’t dangerous but it’s also going to be easily penetrated by mold.

Cheese is prone to getting surface mold when it’s still perfectly fine to eat.