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Default White mold on blueberries - salvageable?

On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 07:17:45 -0700 (PDT), ImStillMags
> wrote:

> On Sep 9, 5:23*am, Steve Freides > wrote:
> > Hi - posting from google groups 'cause I'm on the road and w/ a
> > different computer.
> >
> > I brought a container of fresh blueberries with me - they haven't been
> > refrigerated for the last two days and they'd already been in my
> > refrigerator for about a week before I left. *Now they are starting to
> > show some white "stuff," which I assume is mold, in a spot or two.
> >
> > Are they still safe to eat in any form and, if so, should I wash the
> > white stuff off, should I just try to avoid the ones that have the
> > mold already on them, etc.? *I imagine there is a scientific answer
> > here but I'd appreciate a practical one. *Obviously I don't want to
> > give myself food poisoning but I'm hoping this white stuff isn't so
> > terrible - you tell me, please. *Today is Friday - I'd love to find a
> > way to get another day or two, and another handful or two, out of
> > them, not so much for frugality's sake as because I'm busy and getting
> > to a grocery store will be tough.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > -S-

>
> dump them. I wouldn't eat them.


Pick out the moldy blueberries, use the rest.

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