Blue cheese is one of those foods that you either love or hate. Enthusiasts of this funky-smelling cheese can't get enough of finding creative ways to use it -- whether that be as a salad dressing, in ...

Blue mold, caused by the fungus Penicillium expansum, is the scourge of apple breeders and producers throughout the world, causing extensive losses to stored apples. As the familiar saying goes, one ...

You're at a dinner party and have just locked eyes with the cheese board. As the first tantalizing bite of Gorgonzola passes your lips, a question might cross your mind: Why is it okay to eat this ...

Bleu Cheese is delicious. We'd smother everything in it if we could. You know what's kind of troubling though—the mold in Bleu Cheese. Why is that okay to eat? Our moms told us when we were younger ...

Generally speaking, the aversion from mold in foods comes from the cognition that mold on fresh foods clearly indicates that they are no longer fresh. We also assume that food would not taste the same ...

Blue cheese is known for its characteristic veins of blue (or sometimes shades of green, gray, or even black) mold running ...

Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co.'s "Beni-koji choleste-help" supplement is seen in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward in this April 8, 2024, file photo. (Mainichi/Ririko Maeda) TOKYO -- Blue mold connected to kidney ...