GIVE REASON : Sometimes we falls ill when we consume a food which is not fresh.
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What most people don't get when it comes to food safety: Spoiled food has a chance of making you sick.
When food is visibly spoiled, it has large bacterial colonies growing in it. This means that it has been exposed to conditions which were promoting bacterial growth. Anything which was present on your food will have grown, unless outcompeted by something else.
The bacteria which make food gross are rarely the ones which make you sick. But if they had the chance to grow, the real pathogens had a chance to grow too. If they were present, then they grew, and you will consume them, together with whatever waste products their colony produced.
Assuming that there were infectious bacteria on your food, you will ingest them. From there on, it depends on a ton of factors whether you will get sick or not - the amount you ate, the acidity of your stomach contents, the state of your immune system. The last does not mean "you'll only get sick if you're immunocompromised" - it is like being around a person with the flu, even if your immune system is intact, you can still catch it.
There are pathogens which cannot infect you, but simply produce toxins. Botulinum is the poster child for these, but I think B. cereus also works through a toxin. In this case, eating the food poisons you. Depending on the type and amount of toxin ingested, as well as the current state of your body again (mostly liver function), the symptoms can run the entire spectrum from "so weak you don't notice them" to "you die despite being correctly diagnosed and treated".
Then there are a few more exotic possibilities, for example Hep C cannot cause liver cancer alone, but it does so (sometimes) in the presence of a type of toxin produced by moulds. But this is not actually considered foodborne illness any more, even though it's possible that eating mouldy food was the trigger. It falls outside of the scope of food safety, as the fault cannot be pinned on a specific dish you ate. Nevertheless, it's one more reason to not eat spoiled food.
There is also the possibility that your spoiled food has no pathogens at all, and the spoilage microbes outcompeted all the bad guys, and then of course nothing happens.
So, to sum it up: if you eat spoiled food, there are four possible outcomes:
You get sick (right away or with an incubation period of 2-3 days) and notice it
You get sick (right away or with an incubation period of 2-3 days) but the symptoms are so weak you don't even notice it
You get a different health problem, soon after eating or even years later, without knowing that it was the spoiled food which caused it
Nothing happens.
There is no way to predict which one will occur. Actually, these outcomes are possible with any food you eat, meats. Some may advise that it is okay to eat partially rotten fruit simply because you can remove the part of the fruit from the top that exhibits mold/fungus. But that is a mistake. Because if the mold is dense enough then it has roots that go much deeper in the fruit than visible. Throw it away, unless your life depended on it. In which case, I highly suspect you would have access to quora. So just throw it away.
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Chris Whitehall
Answered Jan 20, 2018 · Author has 162 answers and 196k answer views
As fruit starts to go bad, mold is almost inevitable. But before you start throwing everything out at the first sign of a little mold, hold tight.
I found lots of tasty recipes here: More than 200 It is true that mold has branches and roots that will penetrate the food, so you have to use judgements on how soft it is. The softer the food, the easier it is for roots to penetrate, Gravely elaborated. Big strawberries, for example, you can cut off the moldy part a healthy margin. But if its all soft, dont eat it.
The best practice for eating fresh produce is to wash it with water first (stay tuned for a caveat!). This way youll get a good look at the fruit or vegetable youre about to eat and will be able to identify soft or moldy spots easily. If you are washing produce with a tougher skin on it, rub it with a brush.
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Atul Sehgal, former Advisor at Larsen &Toubro--Sargent &Lundy (2016)
Answered Nov 10, 2017 · Author has 1k answers and 221.8k answer views
Absolutely. Partially rotten fruits are not good for the body system. They harbour harmful germs that can create infection in the body. They vitiate vata—the prime functional humour of the body. These types of fruits are in the category of stale, distasteful and obnoxious smelling foods which have
When food is visibly spoiled, it has large bacterial colonies growing in it. This means that it has been exposed to conditions which were promoting bacterial growth. Anything which was present on your food will have grown, unless outcompeted by something else.
The bacteria which make food gross are rarely the ones which make you sick. But if they had the chance to grow, the real pathogens had a chance to grow too. If they were present, then they grew, and you will consume them, together with whatever waste products their colony produced.
Assuming that there were infectious bacteria on your food, you will ingest them. From there on, it depends on a ton of factors whether you will get sick or not - the amount you ate, the acidity of your stomach contents, the state of your immune system. The last does not mean "you'll only get sick if you're immunocompromised" - it is like being around a person with the flu, even if your immune system is intact, you can still catch it.
There are pathogens which cannot infect you, but simply produce toxins. Botulinum is the poster child for these, but I think B. cereus also works through a toxin. In this case, eating the food poisons you. Depending on the type and amount of toxin ingested, as well as the current state of your body again (mostly liver function), the symptoms can run the entire spectrum from "so weak you don't notice them" to "you die despite being correctly diagnosed and treated".
Then there are a few more exotic possibilities, for example Hep C cannot cause liver cancer alone, but it does so (sometimes) in the presence of a type of toxin produced by moulds. But this is not actually considered foodborne illness any more, even though it's possible that eating mouldy food was the trigger. It falls outside of the scope of food safety, as the fault cannot be pinned on a specific dish you ate. Nevertheless, it's one more reason to not eat spoiled food.
There is also the possibility that your spoiled food has no pathogens at all, and the spoilage microbes outcompeted all the bad guys, and then of course nothing happens.
So, to sum it up: if you eat spoiled food, there are four possible outcomes:
You get sick (right away or with an incubation period of 2-3 days) and notice it
You get sick (right away or with an incubation period of 2-3 days) but the symptoms are so weak you don't even notice it
You get a different health problem, soon after eating or even years later, without knowing that it was the spoiled food which caused it
Nothing happens.
There is no way to predict which one will occur. Actually, these outcomes are possible with any food you eat, meats. Some may advise that it is okay to eat partially rotten fruit simply because you can remove the part of the fruit from the top that exhibits mold/fungus. But that is a mistake. Because if the mold is dense enough then it has roots that go much deeper in the fruit than visible. Throw it away, unless your life depended on it. In which case, I highly suspect you would have access to quora. So just throw it away.
3.6k Views · View Upvoters

Chris Whitehall
Answered Jan 20, 2018 · Author has 162 answers and 196k answer views
As fruit starts to go bad, mold is almost inevitable. But before you start throwing everything out at the first sign of a little mold, hold tight.
I found lots of tasty recipes here: More than 200 It is true that mold has branches and roots that will penetrate the food, so you have to use judgements on how soft it is. The softer the food, the easier it is for roots to penetrate, Gravely elaborated. Big strawberries, for example, you can cut off the moldy part a healthy margin. But if its all soft, dont eat it.
The best practice for eating fresh produce is to wash it with water first (stay tuned for a caveat!). This way youll get a good look at the fruit or vegetable youre about to eat and will be able to identify soft or moldy spots easily. If you are washing produce with a tougher skin on it, rub it with a brush.
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Atul Sehgal, former Advisor at Larsen &Toubro--Sargent &Lundy (2016)
Answered Nov 10, 2017 · Author has 1k answers and 221.8k answer views
Absolutely. Partially rotten fruits are not good for the body system. They harbour harmful germs that can create infection in the body. They vitiate vata—the prime functional humour of the body. These types of fruits are in the category of stale, distasteful and obnoxious smelling foods which have
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