What you see: Mold inside your cream cheese tub. What it is: Old, moldy cream cheese. Eat or toss: Toss! In a soft food like cream cheese, the mold could be
What are those white fluffy things around some apple stems?
What you see: A white wispy thing around your apple stem. What it is: Insect webbing. Eat or toss: Wipe it off and get on with your apple-eating
Fuzzy cauliflower?
What you see: Your cauliflower looks...fuzzy? Not like a patch of mold, but something else…What it is: The cauliflower is over mature or experienced challenging
What’s the white stuff in some apple cores?
What you see: Tight bundles of white fuzz around the seed cavities in your apple core; you may be worried your apple is moldy.What it is: If the apple otherwise
Moldy eggs
What you see: Your eggs have something unexpected, likely black, growing on the surface or possibly inside the shells. They look like the eggs in the images in
Wispy white spots on blueberries
What you see: Cottony white spots on your blueberries; probably where the stem attached or where there might have been a wound in the blueberry’s skin. What it
What if blue cheese gets fuzzy?
What you see: Your blue cheese seems to have developed fuzzy mold, beyond the blue areas you expected. What it is: More mold!Eat or toss: We’re calling this a
Can you eat moldy yogurt?
What you see: A green substance on the surface of the yogurt. What it is: Mold. Eat or toss: The mold could have penetrated deeper than you could see, making
How to tell if white stuff on cheese is mold
What you see: White stuff on your cheese. You’re worried about uninvited mold. What it is: If it’s soft and you can spot “filaments,” it’s mold. (If it’s
The white fuzz inside your clementine is supposed to be there
What you see: A delicate white fluff in the center of your clementine (or tangerine, or other type of mandarin). What it is: Basically just an airier version of
