• Question: why does bread go mouldy?

    Asked by lafonda to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 27 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Philippa Bird

      Philippa Bird answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      I think bread (like cheese) already has types of mould in it as part of the process of making it and it therefore rapidly takes over when the bread gets old…

    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      I thin the fungi in bread are killed off when it is cooked, but bread is a great source of food for all other other fungal spores floating around in the air which grow and grow as soon as they land on the bread.

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      Yeah. Bread is a nice moist home for mould. When the spores that are floating around in the air land on it, they stick and grow into mould.

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