If you have ever stared at a moldy piece of bread and a fuzziness is viewed you are looking at colonies of spores. Spores ...

“Fungi are essential recyclers in our environment ... Fruit, vegetables and salad leaves have a high water content, and bread has moisture and plenty of carbohydrates for mould to feed ...

Sourdough bread uses wild yeast and lactic acid bacteria for leavening, offering nutritional benefits and easier digestion. Mold, a fungus, thrives in moist, warm environments and breaks down ...

Often "stigmatised" as smelly mould or "poisonous mushrooms", these organisms are "essential to life on Earth", said Forbes. The human race ignored the green mould on bread for thousands of years ...