wholemeal mouldy brown sliced bread covered in pin mould spores looking unsightly and reminiscent of blue Gorgonzola cheese
Mouldy bread with colored blue and white areas that are fungal mycelia masses of thread like structures hyphae that release enzymes and absorb nutrients. The bright blue green areas are the fungal spores. This is most likely Penicillium a common fungus to infect bread and baked products and Alexander Fleming was first to suggest it secreted an antibacterial substance. British households throw away tonnes of edible food a year, estimates suggest - and bread is the most wasted provision of all, 32% of bread purchased by UK households is dumped when it could be eaten, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
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