What is the characteristics of spoilt food?

Answer 1

Generally, spoiled food will have a noticable (bad) odor, or have some miscoloring from mold or other bacterial growth. Spoiled meat, for example, often turns greyish in color. Spoiled or stale bread and other grain products will grow mold, as will many dairy products like cheese. If you have doubts, don't eat it. Spoiled food can cause some real problems in human digestive systems.

Answer 2

Spoiled food is food that has begun to change or deteriorate, which increases the possibility that bacteria have begun to grow. Bacteria-infected foods can cause severe gastrointestinal upsets, or food poisoning. Since we cannot always see that food has spoiled, nature has made our noses sensitive to the beginning changes when food or milk is going "bad". Just recall a time you smelled spoiled milk-- it has a pungent unmistakable odor that makes a person gag. Nature also provided that we can taste the telltale signs of spoilage, just in case our noses miss the warning.

However, sometimes foods can spoil and humans can't always know. For example, mayonnaise can begin to breed bacteria quickly when foods are not kept cold. But, the taste of mayonnaise can mask that the food has indeed spoiled. Another frequently missed type of food spoilage is sandwich meats--especially if not refrigerated and kept at a low temperature, such as at a picnic.

Answer 3

lose of food quality and it's edibility or nutritional value.

Answer 4

whenever you experience foul smells, oozing liquids out of it and change in colour, do underastand that the food item is spoilt.

Answer 5

food spoilage is the contamination of food by micro organism thereby rendering the food useless and unconsumable,at times causing disease to the people dat consume them..

Answer 6

-bad smell,-discoloration,-growth of mold,-wrong texture (to soft,to hard),-bad taste, and wrong consistency (too mushy)