<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nMicroscopic bacteria cause food spoilage. These minuscule creatures, known as spoilage bacteria, eat unprotected food and create waste. Bacteria will continue to grow as long as food and water are available, sometimes quite quickly. Food that has gone bad has a bad odor and looks rotten because of bacterial waste.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/span>What happens to food when it goes bad?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nFoods that rot and acquire undesirable flavors, aromas, or textures are considered spoilt. Fruits and vegetables might become slimy or mushy from bacterial spoilage, and meat can acquire a foul odor. Generally speaking, nobody would prefer to consume rotten food. But even if they did, they most likely wouldn’t become ill.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/span>What are the 5 signs of food spoilage?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nA change in look from the meal’s raw state, such as an alteration in color or texture, an unpleasant odor, or an unpleasant flavor, are all indications that the food has spoiled. The object can get softer than usual. If mold develops, it frequently shows up on the items outside.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How Does Food Go Bad Various factors can make food go bad. Factors that can cause food to spoil include microbial, chemical, and physical reactions …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable-in-feed":false,"article-schema-type":"","disable-critical-css":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17323"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79966,"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17323\/revisions\/79966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powerupcook.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}