Category/Mozzarellas
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:
- Marinated mozzarellas
- Mozzarella sticks
- Mozzarellas with herbs
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.