Some housewives, having found the moldy jam, try to digest it to correct a situation and not to throw out, it seems, still a suitable product. However it categorically isn't recommended to be done for certain reasons which will be coordinated with the recommendations of the qualified therapists-nutritionists.
What dangerously moldy jam
Jam on which the mold appeared is no good in food as together with it alien mushrooms and bacteria get into a human body. Their certain quantity is digested a stomach, however other microbes get into intestines and begin to develop there actively. It provokes development of dysbacteriosis, abdominal distension, diarrhea and serious food poisonings.
At single consumption of the moldy jam the strong immunity can cope with bacteria, however it shouldn't be abused.
The mold demonstrating that jam deteriorated, is very strong allergen therefore to asthmatics and allergic persons there are products spoiled by mold disputes and mushrooms, categorically contraindicated. They can't even open a jar with the moldy jam as it can lead even to attacks of suffocation or hypostases. Unlike a penicillinic mold, the grocery mold isn't useful at all and can't have any antibiotic properties.
Application of mouldy jam
In the people it is considered to be that if from a jam surface (cherry, strawberry, pear and any other) to remove a mold layer, the remained "clean" part can quite be eaten. This belief is very popular and dangerous as the top layer of a mold which is visible to a naked eye – only an iceberg top. In other jam there are mold fungi and disputes which it is possible to see only a baking plate a microscope or by means of special analyses.
The skilled hostess can sometimes guess a smell of an invisible mold sense of smell therefore if jam smells "incorrectly", it needs to be utilized.
Often economical women don't throw out jam with a mold, and again boil it at high temperature. At the same time a part of a mold fungi really perishes – however the survived disputes all the same remain in a product and anew breed, continuing to allocate poisonous substances. To avoid emergence of a mold on jam, it is necessary to sterilize qualitatively at its turning covers and the jars, to boil raw materials for jam throughout sufficient time and also to put in it the amount of sugar specified in the recipe. However, it is necessary not to go too far in sugar – otherwise delicacy will become candied. It is necessary to store jam in the dry and cool place with the minimum humidity which provokes emergence of a mold on products.