Don't Cut Mould off Your Bread and Eat It , Warns a Surgeon , Do You ?
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Have you ever spotted mould on the outside of a loaf of bread and just cut it away until you dont see any ?
A NHS surgeon is warning people not to do this
He says just because the rest looks fresh it is not safe to eat , even if you toast it
The mould is just the outer signs of decay, he says there are spores that will be deep inside the loaf and these are the danger
I am guilty of this , especially with sliced bread , where in the past i have thrown a mouldy piece away and another slice or two for good measure, thinking the rest is ok to eat
I won't be doing that anymore
If I saw mould on bread, it would go straight in the bin, the thought of putting that in my mouth 
martinlufc5637 I always thought you could get away with it concerning bread, my mum never wasted anything including bread, she couldn't afford to having a large family , but the bread you get now has no goodness and is full of chemicals so i suppose throwing it away isnt a great loss, besides you can freeze it now to preserve it , years ago that wasn't an option
I thought that penicilin did yer good but I just don't like the taste of stale bread so the birdies get it.Quite happy to whip the mould of the top of the jam though! Remember this?
I've cut away the mould and used the bread for toast before but don't think I've used it untoasted as its already hard normally at the point where there is mould. I find home made bread from a breadmaker gets mould faster because it doesn't have all the harmful additives or parbaked bread as it has all the extra yeast goes off quickly too. Normally store pre-packed bread doesn't last long enough to go off.
BonzoBanana That"s the problem with bread B, do you use shop bought that lasts longer but is full of preservatives or make homemade that is natural but doesn't last as long because it has none, a catch 22 situation, i think i would go homemade just for the freshness and nice baking smells
telmel The parbaked bread you get at places like Lidl, Aldi and convenience stores goes off rapidly. Despite containing all the typical preservatives because it also has high levels of yeast it seems to go off quite rapidly. You can freeze home made bread.
BonzoBanana I did read online a while back that the frozen dough they use in supermarkets where they make their own bread can be up to two years old
Heres another fact from an article from 2018
telmel In fairness that article states Tesco Express which is their convenience stores yet in other places just says Tesco's which makes it easy to confuse the larger Tesco supermarkets that have proper bakeries with those convenience stores which obviously haven't. As far as I know all Aldi and Lidls have low grade parbaked bread and you would be better off buying their pre-packed bread which has far less yeast. Aldi and Lidl are very cost focused and there is less waste and labour with parbaked but its a low grade product for less discerning customers. My local Tesco, Asda and Morrisons all have proper bakeries but this of course doesn't mean all their bread is baked from scratch more speciality breads maybe parbaked. However most of the bread I would buy is freshly baked and not the low grade parbaked type. Also when I was trying breadmaking myself I asked at the bakery counter if I could have some fresh baking yeast and they did me a little bag for a token amount of money or actually might have been free can't remember and that was in Tesco. So I know they make bread from scratch as somewhere like Lidl or Aldi wouldn't have fresh yeast you don't need it just to put a frozen chemical loaf in a oven.
I certainly didn't imagine the frozen parbaked loaves could be as old as two years old however in fairness freezing is a brilliant preservative however the chemicals in them and much higher levels of yeast is because some yeast are killed in the freezing process so they have to put in a lot more yeast and chemicals so the loaves still rise from frozen and they don't go off as quickly but parbaked still goes off very quickly I think because some of the yeast starts coming back to life slowly. You can get mould on parbaked loaves very quickly.
BonzoBanana I suppose they are deceiving people a little by saying freshly baked if the dough is 2 years old or so B , but i suppose they are referring to heating the bread and not making it from scratch with fresh dough
telmel Yeah its all marketing talk and you really have to read between the lines to get the full picture which I don't think most consumers do. I still think food quality and pricing in the UK is brilliant overall. I've seen how the US has much lower standards of food and higher costs too. I reckon if I had to I could live healthily for £5 a week. I wouldn't enjoy it as it would be mainly vegetable soups and a few short life reduced bargains but I reckon I could do it. Those £1.50 fruit and vegetable boxes as Lidls make a huge amount of soup for example which would likely last a month let alone a week. I'd probably have to rely more on beans and mushrooms for protein.
The way its going perhaps many people will be forced to budget for £5 food shopping per week.
first sign of mould and its in the bin but its annoying when that happens so soon. The cheaper bread does last longer but the nicer bread goes off so soon.
It's alright saying that. But some who can't afford to waste anything then they have no choice
HEDGEHOGS I can relate to that most of the time. I've just realised I throw out mouldy or hard bread (without visible mould) for birds perhaps I shouldn't be doing that. They are desperate for it in the winter though. I guess I should be properly checking it for mould before giving it to them.
That’s disgusting seeing mould on bread 
!! Definitely throwing it all away! Mould contains bacteria why risk your health on it! 
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