If there is mold on cream cheese, you should cut at least one inch around and below the moldy spot, making sure not to touch the mold with the knife. True False

True

Explanation:

If there is mold on cream cheese you should cut at least one inch around and below the moldy spot. Because of mold will not generally penetrate hard and semi-soft cheeses

Examples: Cheddar

Colby

Parmesan

Swiss

So we can cut the moldy part and eat the rest of the cheese. We should cut off one inch around and below the moldy spot. We should make sure that mold is not touching the knife. So the statement is true.

If there is mold on cream cheese, you should cut at least one inch around and below the moldy spot, making sure not to touch the mold with the knife is a false statement.

Explanation:

Soft cheese are those which can crumble, shred or be sliced into thin cheese threads.

Hard cheese are those which cannot be crumbled or shred easily and they are hard block like.

Molds spread on soft cheese like cream cheese, ricotta, cottage cheese etc can easily penetrate throughout the cheese.

Along with the mold, there are chances of other pathogenic bacteria like salmonella, brucella, E. coli etc to seep in and grow along with the mold and infect the whole cheese.

Hence consuming soft cheese infected with mold may lead to various infections and should be discarded completely.

However, penetration of mold into hard cheese is tough and only stays superficially.

By cutting the cheese to at least 1 inch below the mold spots, it can be assured that the rest of the cheese is without mold penetration.

Care should be taken not to expose the knife to mold infected part of the cheese to prevent any other cross-contamination through the knife.