No matter how you store food (unless it’s in the freezer), it always get moldy eventually. How does this happen? Mold is a fungus, and fungi spread through spores, right? So are these mold spores just everywhere all the time, looking for food? If so, then does that mean that mold is on everything we eat, but it’s just not toxic until you can see it? And why does refrigeration slow down this process?
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Mold spores are all over everything. Even your skin. They are also everywhere in the air.
Warm temperatures help them rapidly grow and colonize and they go through their life cycle of replicating. Cold temperatures slow them down or stop them completely from replicating.
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