I don't know - but what I do know is, I wouldn't really want to try a sandwich made from that bread! Neil Mmm, it might be a bit mouldy. Rob Yes! Anyway, I'm going to have a guess and say c) 5,500...
(Anyone who has experienced a neighbour’s trampoline blowing into their garden in a storm should be grateful that it was just this and not a mouldy criminal in a cage!). The Juvenile Tourist corroborates this, and adds some extra colour. From his description, for example, it is not ...
In Ancient Egypt, Greece and China for example, mouldy bread was pressed against wounds to prevent infections, the curative effect coming from antibiotics produced by the mould.8 Similarly, a substance that was identified in the 1970s as a potent anti-malarial drug, qinghaosu (artemisinin), was...
Somemouldsmake and release poisons, called mycotoxins, into the food that could, over time, make you very sick. Why they do it is not especially well understood but that doesn't make it any safer. Some mouldy foods should simply be discarded (ideally, to compost). For others, though, yo...