Category/Mozzarellas

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These products contain only the basic ingredients to make cheese.

The category Mozzarella contains 3097 products on 29 january 2024.

Categories

Parent categories

Belongs to Stretched Curd Cheeses

Subcategories

There exists a division based on the type of milk used:

These categories have subcategories for some specific origin Mozzarella's:

Related categories

The processed versions of Mozzarella have been set apart, due to the required extra ingredients, which change the sugar and carbohydrate levels. These also seem to be more industrial products.

There are various categories where Mozzarella is the main ingredient:

Ingredients

Required ingredients

Optional ingredients (more than 1%)

Disallowed ingredients

Production process/labels

The most important labels:

Nutritional information

Nutritional information

10% 90% #products
Energy (kJ/100ml) 74 162 201 306 97%
Fat (%) 0 0 0.5 1.01 96%
Saturated fat (%) 0 0 0.1 1.01 95%
Carbohydrates (%) 3.5 8.6 11 15.6 96%
Sugars (%) 3.5 8.2 10 15.3 96%
Fiber (%) 0 0 0.7 2.71 45%
Proteins (%) 0 0.4 0.8 1.91 98%
Salt (%) 0 0 0.03 0.51 87%
Vitamin C (mg) 0.7 20 40 81 30%
Potassuim (mg) 56 169 200 243 6%
Fruit (%) 99 100 100 100 5%
Nutrition score -3 18

Buffalo Mozzarella

10% mean 90% #products
Energy (kJ/100ml) 838 1030 1190 1350 97%
Proteins (%) 9.9 13 14.4 17 27 98%
Salt (%) 0.08 0.39 0.62 0.8 1.82 92%
Calcium (mg) 210 220 302 403 510 3%
Nutrition score 3 16
NOVA 3 4

Nutriscore

Nutriscore B-C with nutritional values between -1 and 6.

Errors

There are some common errors when assigning a product to Mozzarellas:

  • Cheese Subsititues - non dairy products that replace Mozzarella;
  • Mozzarella sticks - mozzarella covered with bread crumbs, to be fried or baked;
  • Products where the main ingredient is Mozzarella;

Monitoring

There are several ways to check the correctness of the data.

Number of ingredients

This link shows a plot of the number of ingredients versus the energy. The number of ingredients should be between 3 and 6.

Disallowed/Strange ingredients

Sometimes the list of ingredients does not correspond to what is expected for the category. This can be detected by going through the ingredients for the category.

References