Mozzarella
The Italian Essential for Kitchens Everywhere
Mozzarella is a semi-soft, unripened pasta filata cheese, celebrated as one of the most well-known cheeses and enjoyed all around the world. While traditionally made from buffalo milk, most mozzarella today is crafted from cow’s milk and is recognised for its exceptional stretchiness.
As your trusted fresh mozzarella wholesale supplier, Futura Foods offer an extensive range of traditional mozzarella, from the classic mozzarella balls to whole professional kitchen mozzarella blocks.
Plus, as your go-to foodservice mozzarella cheese supplier, our range of frozen and Individually Quick Frozen (IQF) mozzarella comes in a range of convenient and easy-to-use formats including pearls, medallions, and grated.
Whatever the format, mozzarella is the must-have Italian ingredient that melts like a dream and features across countless menus – perfect for pizza, pasta, paninis, salads, and so much more. It’s the family favourite!
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Taste & Texture
Creamy, stretchy, adaptable
Fresh mozzarella has a soft and springy texture with a creamy, mild milky flavour that has a slight sweetness.
Our lower moisture mozzarella varieties are firmer, also offering a mild milky taste, but are easier to grate or shred, and they still melt fantastically well. For a richer taste, Buffalo mozzarella, made from the milk of water buffalo, is typically creamier, richer, and tangier in flavour.
This Italian favourite is fantastic used in hot dishes like pizza, pasta, and lasagna, as well as in hot and cold sandwiches and refreshing salads.
How it’s made
Stretched and then stretched some more
Mozzarella’s distinctive characteristics are achieved through a traditional method known as “pasta filata”. This involves heating the milk, adding rennet to coagulate it, and then stretching and kneading the curds until they become smooth.
The cheese is then cut, shaped, brined, and carefully packed, always best eaten as fresh as possible. However, for convenience and to lock in that fresh goodness for longer, many formats are also available frozen and IQF.
Mozzarella is almost always made with pasteurised milk and vegetarian rennet, most commonly with cow’s milk. Buffalo milk mozzarella, notably the PDO version Mozzarella di Bufala Campana, proudly hails from specific regions where the product originates. We work closely with a range of partner dairies across Italy, enabling Futura Foods to offer an extensive array of formats and pack sizes perfectly suited to your specific needs.
Nutritional Values
Suitable for Vegetarians.
Ingredients
Mozzarella (Milk, Salt, Microbial Rennet, Starter Culture), Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid)
Allergens
Milk
Storage
Keep Refrigerated. Once opened use within 3 days and by date shown.
Nutritional values shown are for a typical Mozzarella, please contact us for full product specifications.
Typical Values
per 100g (as sold)
Did you know…?
The Italian word mozzarella comes from the Neapolitan dialect verb mozzare, which means “to cut off.” The name refers to how the mozzarella is made, because it’s cut up twice when it cures.
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