Legazpi Hope Christian

School
Science Investigatory Project

SY: 2018-2019

When do the molds

appear after its
expiration date in
different brands of
bread?
 Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

EXPERIMENT

RESULT

REFERENCE

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INTRODUCTION
Bread is one of the oldest prepared really more of a “best by date”, which bread. We knew that we only have our
foods. Bread is a staple food prepared doesn’t say the food is spoiled, just that it limitations in this kind of project. We
from a dough of flour and water, usually by won’t taste as good. observed that some people keeps on
baking. Throughout recorded history it has trashing breads after its expiration without
been popular around the world and is one This investigatory project made by our knowing it that bread may be edible or
of the oldest artificial foods, having been group tells or shows you on when do not.
of importance since the dawn of
agriculture. Proportions of types of flour
and other ingredients vary widely, as do
modes of preparation.

Breads are healthy and delicious. But

once its expiration date comes, some may
say its not edible anymore. People are
scared when they ate a expired bread.
Though it doesn’t even have its molds yet.
Is it maybe because it isn’t technically
expired yet or maybe there are a few days
extension before the actual expiration
date.

An expiration date or expiry date is a

previously determined date after which
something should no longer be used,
either by operation of law or by exceeding
the anticipated shelf life for perishable
goods. Expiration dates are applied to
selected food products. molds appear in different brands of bread.
Also to know if the bread is not allow to Some people are starving, working
Expiration date on things like bread, eat anymore after its expiration date. hard and begging for foods to others just
that are not full of liquid where microbes for them to be able to eat. So we did this
can grow is kind of a misnomer - a wrong The brand that we are going to use is investigatory project for our safety and for
or inaccurate use of a name or term. It is the Gardenia loaf bread and Breadtalk loaf us to tell you if when do molds appear in

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 • Materials
• Slice bread of Bakers Plaza & Gardenia

• Plastic tupperware for each bread

(total Tupperware -2)

• A well ventilated room ( no air

condition)

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Procedures
• Prepare the materials

• Place 1 sliced bread (bakers plaza bread)on the plastic

Tupperware.
• Place 1 sliced bread(gardenia bread)on the plastic
Tupperware.
• Wait for the expiration date to come up.

• Record (take a pic ) every day

• Record it for its appearance until the molds appear .

• Take time and always remind to record to know exactly

when did the molds appeared.

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 GARDENIA BREAD
FEBRUARY 26 27 28 MARCH 1 2 3 March 4
25

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 BAKER’S PLAZA BREAD

FEBRUARY 24-MARCH 4
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GARDENIA BREAD BAKER’S PLAZA BREAD

VS

During our experiment we observe that the first bread to have a

mold is the Gardenia bread. Gardenia Bread’s expiration is
February 25 and after 1 week a fungi appeared white fungi or
spores. On the other hand the Baker’s Plaza bread. Bakers’s Plaza
bread is so sweet that during our experiment it is eaten by the
ants. All we knew that the bread is well sealed but then again it is
eaten the by the ants. Baker’s Plaza bread’s expiration is February
24 but after 1 week there is no molds yet.

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 Therefore we had observed that molds appeared first in
Gardenia Bread because of its containing ingredients. There are
some ingredients that the Baker’s Plaza doesn’t have. Is it still
edible?, no because molds are fungi, molds are harmless but some
are dangerous. When you eat is it may produce allergic reactions
and respiratory problems, or produce poisonous substances called
mycotoxins.

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 Science said that molds appears in moist areas. So before we
started a experiment, one of our group-mate tried to
experiment a Gardenia Bread, she placed it inside the
refrigerator, its expiration is February 9 2019 after 2 weeks it
became a moldy bread. The whole bread became decayed and
only molds appeared inside the tupperware.

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 Therefore we conclude that molds
appears in the bread after its
expiration, depends in the
ingredients of the bread and the
temperature where the bread is
located.

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 REFERENCES
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/
archive/2015/01/10/moldy-bread-cheese.aspx

Pictures at printerest.com (except the pictures

during experiment)

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 GROUP MEMBERS:
Abba Jesusa Nopre

Kristel Linsey Po

Candace Rapay

Amanda Perez

Daniel Gian Nacuspag

Alfonso Jaime Bercilla

Cid Chusuey

Jomari Macam

Kirby Jao
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