how can food go mouldy? – Secondary 11

Question: how can food go mouldy?
- Keywords:
  food,
  mouldy,
  nutrition
Asked by cheese2000 to Faye, Martin, Mus, Pete on 26 Apr 2012.
- Pete Etchells answered on 26 Apr 2012:
  
  Hi cheese2000 – what an apt name for the question! Pretty much everything has bacteria on it, and food is no exception – and it’s the bacteria that causes it to go mouldy, because the food is useful for them too. In fact, the mould is a fungus, and when they settle on food they start to break it down and start multiplying. Pretty gross…

Question: how can food go mouldy?