How likely is one to get sick from eating moldy food?
Depends on the mold and what you did with it. Some molds produce so-called mycotoxins which can make you ill. Many of those are killed via heat, so if you cooked a moldy food it'd likely taste like crap but won't kill you or make you very sick.The dose, as Paracelsus said, makes the poison. If the mold is new (~5h), the amount of mycotoxin on a small patch isn't dangerous. Large patches of mold, however, can make you vomit or have diarrhea.Cut it off and you're fine, mold is topical so if you remove the patch you're fine to eat the food (within reason, there's a cause for mold, did you leave to food out too long?).Lastly, some food require mold (not every mold is bad, penicillin is derived from mold, blue cheese is moldy by design, and many dry cured meats develop surface molds), so you'd have to be a little bit more specific :)
Can moldy mozzarella cause food poisoning?
I made an omelette with cheese I had in my fridge. The cheese was a leftover block of mozzarella that had been poorly wrapped, so there was a good amount of greenish mold growing on the sides. I cut off all the mold and washed the cheese, before grating it and sprinkling it onto the omelette. This was about 6 hours ago, and now I feel slightly nauseated. Am I getting food poisoning from the cheese? And if theres a good chance I am, is there any way I can prevent my self from vomiting (I have a severe phobia of vomit)? I would rather have diarrhea. :/
Moldy mozzarella cheese?
This happened to me once. I was eating shredded mozarella out of the bag for a while, until I looked in my hand and noticed parts were blue. Then i looked in the bag and gagged. I stopped eating it immediately, but did nothing else. I was fine. Don't eat any more of it, and you will be fine. Don't worry too much-a little mold usually isn't too bad. A ton of mold could cause food poisoning and hallucinations. Likely, it wasn't enough to make you sick and your body will take care of those intruding mold spores.
What happens if u eat mozzarella cheese that expired 4 months ago and u didnt know?
I was making a cassarol..and The cheese was kind of hard, but I figured it was cause I had frozened it before..but after I ate my cassarol, I looked at the date in the cheese when I should of done it before I opened it, but my baby was crying so I just hurried and cooked it..And Im scared cause I bearly ate it like 5 min. ago so I'm going to be in lots of pain or what do u think?