Would you eat this? Bread edition

It's hard to tell by the photo, but if you're concerned you could just cut off the crust part. 

However, personally I don't think that bread will make very good French toast because it's too soft. 

I’ve pulled off mould spot many times without ill effects. He’ll be fine 🙂 I think it’s one of those that’s generally agreed to be not risky.

We buy that exact bread once in awhile and it's flour on top. I think it has a fair amount of preservatives, too, so I wouldn't have any problem eating it now or for another couple days. That's the one we buy for our campfire pie makers because of the oversized slices and the crust is num with it!

When you think bread might be too soft for French bread, “stale” it by either letting it dry out by laying the slices flat on a pa and turning after an hour or two to dry out the other side. You can also do a light toasting in the oven or toaster.

Image search shows that on all their bread.

No idea but I’m surprised at how many “just cut the mold off” comments. I always thought that was fine for cheese (though I personally find it gross and don’t do it, dh will) but not bread due to the type of mold and the way it spreads.

Eww to cutting it off and still eating it.

www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/04/21/523647669/is-it-safe-to-eat-moldy-bread

Absolutely not 🤢🤮

That bread is fine. That is how it looks when it comes out of the bakery.

Does anyone notice that most bread doesn't hardly mold anymore.

I have bread and buns that get pretty ancient, and I very seldom see mold anymore!

Fresh baked bread gets it fast though.

because it's full of added sugar, which acts as a preservative....plus other added preservatives.


and the ingredient list from the specific loaf in the OP:

Ingredients:
Enriched Unbleached Flour (Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate. Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Potato Flakes, Contains Less Than 2% Of Each Of The Following: Yeast, Soybean Oil, Salt, Wheat Gluten, Dough Conditioners (Monoglycerides, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Ascorbic Acid, Calcium Sulfate, Enzymes), Vinegar, Monocalcium Phosphate, Calcium Propionate (Preservative).
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My bread (In Australia) definitely gets moldy after a few days...lasts a bit longer in the fridge. I doubt most of our bread has HFCS in it...I just checked the one I buy occasionally and it definitely doesn't.

This isn't the bread that I buy, but it's a similar "cottage loaf" to the one in the OP, & this is the ingredient list:
Wheat Flour, Water, Rye Meal (4%), Yeast, Vinegar, Canola Oil, Iodised Salt, Fermented Wheat Flour, Wheat Gluten, Rye Flour, Soy Flour, Vegetable Emulsifiers (471, 481, 472e), Vitamins (Thiamin, Folate)

If you spot mold on the outside of something, it's already infiltrated the entire product. I trash the entire package if I spot mold.

That said, it looks like flour to me in the picture. Mold has a very distinctive smell. I'm sure it's fine based on your description.

Right?!? When I bake bread from scratch, that will get moldy pretty quick if we leave it on the counter. Thankfully it gets gobbled up within a couple days. Storebought bread kept in the fridge will get hard and stale but it almost never gets moldy.

DH went to a chiropractor once who had a display in her office with a fossilized Happy Meal. It was sitting out in the open, 5+ years old, hard as a rock but frighteningly no mold whatsoever. Makes you wonder what food is made of these days that it can sit out until it’s a fossil and never get moldy.

Or after sitting in the floorboard of my car under the front seat for a millennia. Probably because fries are salty as hell and salt is a preservative too.

My Dave’s Killer good seed bread definitely gets moldy after a week or so. It doesn’t have a lot of sugar, no HFCS, etc. No idea about their other varieties. I don’t care for sweet bread for sandwiches and stuff so I avoid those brands.

I’ve noticed since we started using a dehumidifier in the house that our bread lasts much longer. Before, it would mold literally in a couple of days.