Lemon bun worries

[Alwaysworriedwoman]

Hi everyone.

I've just had half a lemon bun from a local cafe first half tasted fine it was only when I got half way through the whipped cream style filling started tasting cheesy? So I spat it out. I have major anxiety could I be looking at a potential E.coli issue here? I don't want to be ill for Xmas!

Isn't that cream cheese icing?

I'm not too sure what topping it is but it's filled with some sort of cream

It doesn't smell gone off all I can smell is lemon flavouring

You can't typically taste e-coli. Here are the common types of cream spoilage by bacteria.

Bitty cream, sweet curdling => Bacillus cereus

Bitterness, thinning in sterilized cream => Bacillus licheniformis, B. coagulans, Bacillus subtilis

Yeast or fruity flavors, gas formation => Candida lipolyticum, Geotrichum candidum.

Surface taints => Penicillium spp

Foamy => Candida, Torulopsis

The most "cheese" of these is "yeast of fruity flavours" and those are both candida yeasts. Eating those won't make you terribly ill; they already live in your mouth. They can be dangerous if they somehow get into your bloodstream and you are already in intensive care.

Thanks! @slo 😀

I think they sometimes put lemon in the cream to flavour it and that can curdle it a bit, won't do you any harm, people do that to make sour cream if they can't buy it ready done👍

Ps mmmm I want a lemon bun now😋

They ate awesome! 🍋