Do Mycotoxins Survive Cooking? What You Need to Know

Mycotoxins & Cooking

Mycotoxins Don't All Disappear When You Cook Your Food We often assume that if a food is cooked, whatever was in it beforehand is basically taken care of.

With mycotoxins, it isn't that simple.

Different mycotoxins have different levels of chemical stability, meaning heat can affect them very differently. Some may be reduced by certain processing methods, while others can remain relatively stable.

So cooking, baking, roasting, or processing a contaminated food doesn't automatically mean the mycotoxin is gone.

This is why I personally like to add a binder to my food when I can, for example, in the water when I'm cooking rice.

And this is one reason why mycotoxin contamination isn't always as straightforward as:

“Just cook it.”