Once the mold began to grow, how did the appearance of the mold change over time?
The mold didn’t change because there isn’t mold on the bread yet.
Hopefully, when we buy foods at a grocery store they are not moldy. What do you think food manufacturers do to foods to prevent the growth of mold?
(Hint! Using your Alan November research skills, try googling this answer. Be sure to include your source when you answer this on your blog.)
What I think: I’ve heard that at McDonalds they put lemon juice on the apple slices so that they don’t turn brown. Maybe food manufacturers use some chemical or juice to prevent the growth of mold on the food.
What I researched: They can clean the fridge that they keep some food in. Use plastic wrap to wrap open foods.
Many fungi are decomposers. What does this mean? (Hint! Think back to our discussions and research before break)
It means that fungi breaks down dead animals and old food using bacteria.
Make a list of useful things fungi can do. (Hint! Think back to our discussions and research before break)
- Mold is fungi and mold is in penicillin
- Yeast is fungi and yeast rises bread
- Fungi breaks down old food and dead animals
- Mushrooms are a type of fungi and we eat mushrooms (the safe ones)
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Link I used to google question 2: LINK
You were really specific! Way To Go! I wonder if the reason why we maybe both have no mold on our bread is because….Maybe the amount of water we used for our jar with the bread inside was way too much or not enough water?! What brand of bread did you use for this project? It’s because if we ever do this project again maybe there would be even just a little mold on our bread because of the certain type of bread that we would use that could be a better brand?! Another idea is that maybe instead of putting the bread in a glass container covered in plastic maybe there is a better material so that the bread can get moldy and also maybe some types of bread needs some light or air to get the bread moldy. The thing that is the same about both of our pieces of bread is that it took a really long time to get moldy.(Well at least tried to get moldy)
Skrivitzky brought the bread, so maybe ask her. The bread kind of looked like a whole wheat bread or something like that. I remember both times that me and skrivitzky put water in the jar, we didn’t put in that much, so if you didn’t put in that much and don’t have mold, maybe our breads have a connection with the chemicals that are in the bread.
Is there any mold on your bread yet? Are you thinking of ways to keep things from getting moldy in your fridge at home?
No, there is no mold on our bread yet, but when we were researching about mold, I found out some ways to stop things from getting moldy in the fridge: You can wrap your food in plastic wrap and make sure the (if there are containers in your fridge) containers in your fridge are sealed.