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Cheeses grouped by how the curd is made and ripened, from fresh acid curds to cave-aged wheels.

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Ferment	Region	Main step	Temperature	Salt	pH
Formaggio Contrin	Italy, Veneto	20–30 days	10–16 °C
Formaggio d'Alpe grasso	Italy, Lombardia	at least 6 months
Formaggio d'Alpe misto	Italy, Lombardia	30 days – 3 months
Formaggio d'Alpe semigrasso	Italy, Lombardia	2–3 months
Formaggio d'alpe ticinese AOP	Switzerland, Ticino, summer alpine farms	at least 2 months	10–16 °C		up to 5.4
Formaggio del fieno	Italy, Piemonte	at least 2 months
Formaggio di capra	Italy, Lazio	20 days – 6 months	8–12 °C
Formaggio di capra "padduni"	Italy, Sicilia	45 min	37 °C
Formaggio di capra a pasta molle (Valle d'Aosta)	Italy, Valle d'Aosta	20–25 days	12–15 °C
Formaggio di capra siciliano	Italy, Sicilia	20 days	12–18 °C
Formaggio di colostro ovino	Italy, Sardegna	4–5 days
Formaggio di fossa (pit-ripened)	Italy, Romagna and Marche	2.6–3.3 months	10–15 °C		5.1
Formaggio di Fossa di Sogliano PDO	Italy, Emilia-Romagna and Marche	2–7.9 months	6–14 °C
Formaggio di pecora o capra a pasta pressata (Valle d'Aosta)	Italy, Valle d'Aosta	at least 3 months
Formaggio di Pietracatella	Italy, Molise	at least 2 months
Formaggio di Santo Stefano d'Aveto (San Stè)	Italy, Liguria	at least 2 months	15 °C
Formaggio di Santo Stefano di Quisquina	Italy, Sicilia	at least 6 months	12–18 °C
Formaggio di Sappada	Italy, Veneto	at least 2 months
Formaggio duro di latte di pecora, capra e vacca	Italy, Campania	2–12 months
Formaggio e caciotta di pecora sott'olio	Italy, Lazio	3–12 months
Formaggio Fagagna	Italy, Friuli Venezia Giulia	2–12 months	10 °C
Formaggio Fodom	Italy, Veneto	2–3 months
Formaggio in fossa (stagionato in fossa)	Italy, Marche	2.6–3.3 months
Formaggio inbriago	Italy, Veneto	2 months – 2 years
Formaggio malga bellunese	Italy, Veneto	30–35 days	10–13 °C	15 %
Formaggio misto (Valle d'Aosta)	Italy, Valle d'Aosta	2–3 months	12–15 °C
Formaggio misto pecora fresco dei Berici	Italy, Veneto	2 months	10–12 °C
Formaggio Moesin di Fregona	Italy, Veneto	20–25 days	9–12 °C
Formaggio Montemagro	Italy, Veneto	at least 3 months
Formaggio morbido del Matese	Italy, Campania	10 days – 3 months
Formaggio Morlacco	Italy, Veneto	6–15 days
Formaggio Nevegàl	Italy, Veneto	30 days
Formaggio nostrano veronese	Italy, Veneto	at least 3 months
Formaggio pecorino dei Berici	Italy, Veneto	2–3 months
Formaggio pecorino fresco di malga	Italy, Veneto	15 days
Formaggio Renàz	Italy, Veneto	3–12 months	13 °C
Formaggio salato (Formadi salât)	Italy, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Carnia	2–3.9 months	up to 14 °C		5.1–5.2
Formaggio Schiz	Italy, Veneto	1 h
Formaggio Tosella	Italy, Veneto	15–30 min	30 °C
Formaggio Val Seriana	Italy, Lombardia	4–12 months
Formaggio Valmorel	Italy, Veneto	2 months
Formaggio Zumelle	Italy, Veneto	40 days
Formai de Livign	Italy, Lombardia	at least 2 months
Formai de Mut dell'Alta Valle Brembana PDO	Italy, Lombardy, upper Brembana valley	at least 45 days
Formai del cìt	Italy, Friuli Venezia Giulia	6–7 h
Formatge serrat (queso serrat)	Spain, Catalonia	at least 30 days
Fourme d'Ambert PDO	France, Auvergne	at least 17 days	6–12 °C
Fourme de Montbrison PDO	France, monts du Forez	at least 32 days	6–12 °C		6.5–6.6
Frachet	Italy, Piemonte	15–30 days
Fresa	Italy, Sardegna	13–20 days	12–14 °C
Friese Nagelkaas (Kanternagelkaas PDO)	Netherlands, Friesland and the Westerkwartier	at least 28 days	at least 12 °C
Fromages du Jura / Jurabergkäse (Chaux-d'Abel, Grand Chaux-d'Abel, Moron, Fornet)	Switzerland, the Bernese Jura and canton of Jura	at least 2.5 months	13–14 °C
Frumagit di Curiglia	Italy, Lombardia	7–21 days			5.6–6.3
Furmai nustran	Italy, Veneto	30 days – 12 months
Furmaìn (Formaggetta fresca)	Italy, Emilia-Romagna	3 days – 12 months	up to 16 °C
Fynbo	Denmark, the island of Funen	at least 42 days	10–20 °C
Gailtaler Almkäse PDO	Austria, Carinthia, alpine pastures of the Upper Gail valley	at least 49 days	15–20 °C
Galotyri PDO	Greece, Epirus and Thessaly	at least 2 months	up to 8 °C	3–4 %	3.8–4
Gamalost	Vik, Sogn, Norway	14–21 days	10–13 °C
Gamonéu PDO	Spain, eastern Asturias	at least 2 months	up to 12 °C
Garda Tremosine	Italy, Lombardia	12 months – 2 years
Garrotxa	Spain, Catalonia	at least 21 days	10–12 °C	20 %
Gibna bayda (Sudanese white cheese)	Sudan	6 h		6–15 %	3.5–4.2
Gibna mudaffara (braided cheese)	Sudan	12 h	4 °C	3 %
Gioda	Italy, Piemonte	at least 2 months	6–8 °C
Giuncata vaccina abruzzese	Italy, Abruzzo	1 h
Glarner Alpkäse	Switzerland, canton of Glarus	at least 2 months	12–18 °C
Glarner Schabziger	Switzerland, canton of Glarus	3–8 months
Glundner Käse (Glundner Kas)	Austria, Carinthia	2–3 days		1 %
Golot (Kolot) peyniri	Turkey, eastern Black Sea	at least 3 months	up to 10 °C	1.5 %
Gomolya	Hungary	at least 7 days		1–2 %
Gorgonzola PDO dolce/piccante	Italy, Piedmont and Lombardy	50 days – 8.9 months	-1–7 °C		6.8
Gorwydd Caerphilly	Made on the family's farm in Wales, then moved to England	42 days – 2 months
Gouda Holland PGI / Noord-Hollandse Gouda PDO	Netherlands	at least 28 days	at least 12 °C
Gran cacio di Morolo	Italy, Lazio	5–18 months	7–12 °C
Grana Padano PDO	Italy, Po valley	at least 9 months	15–22 °C
Granone lodigiano	Italy, Lombardia	2–4 years
Graviera Agrafon	Greece, the Agrafa area of Karditsa prefecture	30 days	16–18 °C
Graviera Kritis PDO	Greece, Crete	at least 3 months	14–18 °C
Graviera Naxou PDO	Greece, Cyclades, the island of Naxos	2.3–2.6 months	15 °C
Greviera di Ozieri	Italy, Sardegna	at least 3 months
Großwalsertaler Bergkäse ('Walserstolz')	Austria, Vorarlberg	8–12 months	12–15 °C	20 %	5.3
Gruyère (French IGP)	France, Savoie, Haute-Savoie, Ain, Jura, Doubs, Haute-Saône, Côte-d'Or, Haute-Marne and nearby	at least 3.9 months	at least 4 °C
Gubbeen	Ireland, County Cork				5
Guda (Tushetian)	Georgia, Tusheti	at least 2 months	up to 22 °C
Győr-Moson-Sopron megyei Csemege sajt	Hungary, Győr-Moson-Sopron county	21 days	13–15 °C	20–22 %	5.2–5.4
Halitzia Tillirias	Cyprus, Tilliria region	at least 40 days
Halloum (Levant)	Lebanon	2 days		5–13 %
Halloumi / Hellim PDO	Cyprus	at least 40 days		12 %
Handkäse (mit Musik)	Germany, Hesse	7–14 days			up to 4.2
Hard chhurpi	Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet and the Indian Himalaya	30 days			5.7–6.3
Hartkäse Alta Badia (Formaggio duro Alta Badia)	Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Prov. Bolzano	3.3–12 months
Hartkäse Gran Spicchio & Gran Dolomiti (Formaggio duro)	Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Prov. Bolzano	6–15 months
Harzer Käse	Germany, Harz area	at least 5 days	15 °C
Havarti	Denmark	7–21 days	8–12 °C
Hellim (Turkey)	Türkiye
Herrgårdsost	Sweden	at least 3 months	10–18 °C
Herve PDO	Belgium	35 days – 2 months
Hochpustertaler fettreduziert (Alta Pusteria semigrasso)	Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Prov. Bolzano	at least 56 days
Hushållsost	Sweden	2 months
Ibores PDO	Spain, Extremadura	at least 2 months			5.2
Idiazabal PDO	Basque Country and northern Navarre, Spain	at least 2 months	8–14 °C		4.9–5.5
Il Fossa del Greppo	Italy, Toscana	at least 3 months
Il grande vecchio di Montefollonico	Italy, Toscana	at least 9.9 months
Imeruli	Georgia, Imereti	3–4 h
Incanestrato di Castel del Monte	Italy, Abruzzo	4–10 months	10–14 °C
Innichner (San Candido)	Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Prov. Bolzano	42 days
Innichner Bergkäse (Montagna San Candido)	Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Prov. Bolzano	at least 2 months
Innichner Butterkäse (Caciottina Montanara / Formaggio al burro di San Candido)	Italy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Prov. Bolzano	21 days
Iqt / Oggt (Arabia)	Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Peninsula				4.3 → 4
Ircano	Italy, Sardegna	15–30 days	6–8 °C
Istarski ovčji sir / Istrski ovčji sir	Croatia and Slovenia, Istria	2–12 months	up to 19 °C
Italico	Italy, Lombardia	20–40 days	4–6 °C
İzmir tulum	Türkiye, Aegean region	at least 4 months	2–4 °C		5–5.2
Jameed	Jordan, where FAO finds it all over the country, in rural areas and the desert	16 days	35–40 °C
Jāņu siers TSG	Latvia	at least 1 h
Jarlsberg	Norway	at least 3 months
Jben	Morocco	24 h – 10 days			4–4.2
Jibne baladi	Lebanon	30 min	63 °C
Kalari	Jammu	3–4 days			5–5.4
Kalathaki Limnou PDO	Greece, island of Lemnos	21 days	14–18 °C	6–8 %
Kanterkaas PDO	Netherlands, Friesland and the Westerkwartier	at least 28 days	at least 12 °C
Karaman Divle Obruğu Tulum Peyniri	Türkiye, Karaman province, Ayrancı district	at least 3 months	3–5 °C	2.7–3 %	4.5–5.1
Kariki (Tinos)	Greece, island of Tinos	40 days – 7 months			5.6
Karish / Areesh	Egypt, village households	24 h – 3 days		2.5 %
Kars Gravyer Peyniri	Türkiye, Kars province	3.5–6 months	7–12 °C		5.1–5.2
Kars Kaşarı	Türkiye, Kars and Ardahan provinces	3–6 months	2–8 °C		5–5.2
Kashkaval / Kaşar	Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula	55 days – 6 months	8–12 °C		5.2–5.4
Kasseri PDO	Greece	at least 3 months	18 °C		5.2
Kefalograviera PDO	Greece, Western Macedonia, Epirus and the prefectures of Aitoloakarnania and Evrytania	at least 3 months	up to 6 °C	18–20 %	5.1 → 5.12
Kefalotyri	Greece and Cyprus	3 months		4.1 %
Kesong puti	Philippines	1–1.5 h		2–2.2 %	6.2–6.3
Khuruud (hurood)	Inner Mongolia, China	16 h – 2 days			5.6
Klenovecký syrec	Slovakia, Gemer-Malohont	at least 20 days	14–16 °C	14 %	5.2
Klila	Algeria	24 h – 3 days
Kobi	Georgia, Mtskheta-Mtianeti	at least 2 months		16–18 %
Kochkäse	Santa Catarina, Brazil	2–7 days	15 °C
Kolbasny syr (smoked sausage cheese)	Russia	3–4 h	45–55 °C
Kopanisti PDO	Greece, the Cyclades	30–40 days	18 °C	4–5 %
Kope cheese (Kurdish jar cheese)	Kurdish regions of Iran, Iraq, Türkiye and Syria	37 days – 6.1 months	5–12 °C
Kradi / Maish krej (Kashmiri kalari)	India, Jammu and Kashmir				5–5.4
Krasotyri of Kos (tyri tis possias)	Greece, South Aegean Region	at least 30 days
Krčki sir	Croatia, island of Krk	2–4 months	10–18 °C
Kurut (Kyrgyz)	Kyrgyzstan	4–5 h	38–42 °C	2–3 %	4.2–4.6
L'Etivaz	Switzerland, Vaud Alps	at least 2.5 years
Labneh balls in oil (labneh makbouseh, labneh anbaris balls)	Lebanon	7–15 days	30 °C		3.5
Ladotyri Mytilinis PDO	Greece, island of Lesvos	at least 3 months	12–16 °C
Laguiole PDO	France, Aubrac plateau	at least 4 months	6–12 °C
Lancashire (Beacon Fell PDO)	Lancashire, England	at least 21 days	16 °C	2.5 %
Langres PDO	France, the Langres plateau and the Bassigny pastures	at least 15 days			5–5.2

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