Why does fungus on expired goods make us sick, but not the other edible mushrooms?

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Why does fungus on expired goods make us sick, but not the other edible mushrooms?

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Control, control, control. There are mushrooms that you can eat just fine. There are mushrooms that will kill you. There are mushrooms that will make you see things that aren’t there. There’s thousands of species of mushrooms and if you get the wrong one it can be capital B Bad.

So mushroom growers are very careful about the kind of mushroom the grow. The fungi that grows on your bread? Honestly, we have no idea what it could be and don’t want you to find out the hard way it was the Bad kind.