Yogurt going mouldy

[PrinzessinCressida]

My big pot of Aldi soy vanilla yogurt keeps developing mould on the sides and inside lid after a couple of days of being open. I will wipe it and there will be some more the next day, although there's never any mould on the yogurt itself. It is initially of the green/black variety and if I persist in wiping it and carrying on using it, after one or two days it goes white furry. At that point i can't stomach it anymore and have to bin it.

My pot of plain Alpro soy yogurt doesn't do this. Is there anything I'm doing to cause it? I know yogurt is "sensitive" to contamination so I always use a clean spoon to serve it. Could I prevent it in some way?

Thanks.

I'm struggling to get past the fact you're wiping mould off yet still eating the yogurt you must have a cast iron stomach

Anyway - make sure you're keeping it well inside the fridge and not in the door

Same as @RolyPolyBatFace , why are you still eating it?? I think if there's visible mould then there is usually invisible spores in the rest too.
Is your fridge cold enough?

@MrsVeryTired

Same as *@RolyPolyBatFace* , why are you still eating it?? I think if there's visible mould then there is usually invisible spores in the rest too. Is your fridge cold enough?

Pfft - most mould like that won't harm you - long before you can see it, there's "spores in the rest" as you put it - you'll have consumed billions of the buggers without even knowing it.

Dairy products tend to taste foul long before they are actually harmful with the exception being the unpasteurised (raw) stuff that a few nutters advocate these days.

OP - it'll be a difference in the contents of the yoghurts.

Take a spoonful of each (use clean spoon for each), opened at the same time and place side by side a couple of inches apart in a cling film covered container in the fridge and observe what happens over the course of a few days.

If the vanilla one gets mouldy before the other, you'll know that it's just the way it is - nothing you can do about it except maybe stick to the plain one

I mean, I know that mould is unlikely to have you keeling over or anything and we've all been half way through a crumpet only to discover it's green underneath but I couldn't scrape off mould from food and then enjoy the eating experience of the rest

I salute those who do!

Thank you for the advice. I wonder if it's the fruit sugars. My fridge is really cold so I don't think it's that. I think if the mould was ON the yogurt itself I'd find it harder to ignore, but because it's on the walls of the pot I can wipe it.