Buffalo mozzarella

Buffalo mozzarella (Italian: mozzarella di bufala; Neapolitan: muzzarella 'e vufera) is a mozzarella made from the milk of the Italian Mediterranean buffalo. A fresh, soft pasta filata cheese, it is traditionally produced in Campania, particularly in the provinces of Caserta and Salerno. Since 1996, mozzarella di bufala campana is also registered as an EU and UK protected designation of origin (PDO) product. The protected designation requires that it be produced according to a traditional recipe in selected areas of Campania, southern Lazio, northern Apulia, and the Molise town of Venafro. In 2024 the producers' consortium certified an output of 55,718 tonnes of mozzarella di bufala campana PDO, roughly 40% of which was exported, with France as the leading foreign market. With a turnover of more than half a billion euros, it is the fourth Italian PDO product by production value, after Grana Padano, Parmigiano Reggiano, and prosciutto di Parma.