HUMAN NUTRITION

Detailed explanation-1: -Spoiled food tastes sour, bitter or fermented. Spit out the food that tastes foul and rinse your mouth with water to avoid ingesting any harmful microorganisms. Spoiled food not only tastes bad but it may also have a slimy, squishy or mushy texture when you cut into it.

Detailed explanation-2: -Foods that deteriorate and develop unpleasant odors, tastes, and textures are spoiled. Spoilage bacteria can cause fruits and vegetables to get mushy or slimy, or meat to develop a bad odor. Most people would not choose to eat spoiled food. However, if they did, they probably would not get sick.

Detailed explanation-3: -Some signs of meat, seafood and poultry spoilage include slime, discolouring and a bad smell. The most common signs of spoilage on dairy products include green or black mold, a strong smell or curdling. Signs of spoilage on fruits and vegetables are mould, a soft and mushy consistency and a bad smell.

Detailed explanation-4: -Other signs of food spoilage include rising air bubbles (gas), leaking, foam, foul odor, unnatural colors, sliminess, dried food on top of jars, and cotton mold growth (white, blue, black, green) at the top or under the lid (Blakeslee, 2021).

Detailed explanation-5: -1 Microbial spoilage. Microbial spoilage is caused by microorganisms like fungi (moulds, yeasts) and bacteria. 2 Physical spoilage. 3 Chemical spoilage. 4 Appearance of spoiled food.