• Question: If you were eating a sandwich and there was mold on the bread and you ate it what would happen?

    Asked by Farah to Chloe on 11 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Chloe Huseyin

      Chloe Huseyin answered on 11 Nov 2015:


      If there was only a little bit and you are healthy, probably nothing apart from it wouldn’t taste very nice!

      We eat mould and bacteria all the time as they are on everything we eat, on our cutlery and everything we touch, that is where our stomach acid comes in. The acid in your stomach kills a lot of the micro-organisms and the ones that do get through into your intestines have to battle with the good bacteria that live in there. The good bacteria protects us from anything nasty trying to colonise us and our own immune system helps too, for example diarrhoea is our bodies way of getting rid of anything nasty in a hurry.

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