Much milder "moldy" foods can help you warm up to the concept. To make blue cheese, mold strains like Penicillium roqueforti ...

This doesn’t just apply to the obvious options, like blue cheese. For example, the signature bloomy rind of Brie or Camembert ...

Penicillium notatum, for example, gave rise to the drug penicillin. Which, by some estimates, has saved at least 200 million human lives. While other molds, like Aspergillus flavus, produce toxins ...