[revlolz]

>If you can cut off or pull off the parts that are bad, but the rest is good

Isn't this untrue for spores and mold? I'm not making the claim, I'm genuinely unsure and remember stern warnings that unseen spores and mold are a threat with moldy bread and fruits.

[tech_ken]

Yeah sorry should have been clear that I was thinking about a case where like one or two blueberries in the corner of the package have just started to mold, or where it's a non-mold problem (like maybe an apple bruise has made 1/3 of it mushy, I'll probably still eat the other half). Generally stuff that has a nontrivial amount of mold I'm not trying to save.

[tharkun__]

Mushy apples are fine. I wouldn't buy them like that. But picking up the half mushy apples that fell from the tree is how we got all our apple sauce made when I was a kid. Dirt cheap. Come to think of it. My mom still does this.