Mozzarella di Bufala Campana is Italian mozzarella cheese made from buffalo milk in the following regions of Italy: Caserta, Salerno and part of Benevento provinces, Naples, Frosinone, Latina and Rome. The Italian city of Aversa in the province of Caserta is recognized as the origin of this cheese.

The origin of this cattle-breeding of water buffalo was to find a use for the marshlands between Naples and Caserta. The plains were unused and inhospitable, and for this reason, the buffalo were bred in a wild state. More recently, with increasing consumption of the cheese, the cattle breeding can be more accurately described as semi-wild.

The cheese holds a "Protected Designation of Origin" from the government of the European Union, and has been assigned the registry number 1107/96.

External links

• Mozzarella di Bufala Campana (trade association)
• Photographs of Mozzarella di Bufala production in Campana Italy

Italian cheeses | Italian Protected designation of origin

Mozzarella di Bufala Campana | Mozzarella di Bufala Campana