Anonymous wrote:I ate moldy maple syrup and it turned my derrière into a waffle.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I ate moldy maple syrup and it turned my derrière into a waffle.
lol. That has happened to me just with eating non-moldy syrup.
I hope OP called her doctor. You never know who is really posting on DCUM. the first reply was from someone from a "maple syrup family". Ok, yeah right.
Anonymous wrote:Mouldy grains and bread are carcinogenic and have been linked to stomach cancer.
Through out the whole loaf if you see any mould.
Most mould ( fungi ) bacteria and fermented foods are harmless or good for you.
Anonymous wrote:I ate moldy maple syrup and it turned my derrière into a waffle.
Anonymous wrote:Could the misconceptions in this thread be cleaned up? It's easily searchable on google. I recently had some moldy real maple syrup I kept in the fridge that was probably 8 months old? It caused me to double over in pain, have a slight fever, and throw up.
My issue now is that I have been coughing up some of the mold as phlegm. I don't believe it is systemic, but I will be trying to find a iodine or otherwise toxic cleanse. It growing well in poor growing environments is what concerns me.
I doubt boiling and scooping the mold out would have had any different result, as the toxins (even enzyme toxins) in mold do not go away from boiling! Now if you can determine the type of mold, as there are many which are not toxic (similar to penicillin), but there are some that are. I'm sure a doctor could send the tests off as a lab sample. And it would be much less expensive than a trip to the hospital.
If you were curious what it looked like, it was gray and fleck-like. I couldn't see it, so I shook the bottle and used it. The next morning it clumped together. It was much easier to see after shaking.
Just my two cents.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I wish I had known this before I kept tossing expensive bottles and jugs of maple syrup. I only buy the tiny souvenir sizes now (my kids hate the real stuff).
That's why you keep it in the fridge.
There are some indicators that maple syrup might have gone bad. Probably the most common one is mold. The product can get moldy even if it’s stored in the fridge (of course if an opened one is stored at room temperature the process of growing mold is much faster). In contrast to most foods that, when any signs of mold appear, are to be discarded, maple syrup doesn’t have to be thrown out. MMPA[1] states that the mold is harmless and you can just “brign the syrup to a slight boil, skim the surface, and pour into a clean container and refrigerate”. Of course you can choose to discard the syrup when you discover any signs of mold and that’s fine.
Besides mold, maple syrup can ferment or have a yeasty (or any other kind of spoiled) smell. It happens very rarely, but it definitely can happen. All in all, if maple syrup doesn’t look, smell or taste right, you probably should discard it.