| Provoletta di latte vaccino sardo | Italy, Sardegna | | 7 days | Clean, thin, smooth, pale straw |
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| Provolone del Monaco PDO | Italy, Campania | Raw cow milk, never heated above 40 °C; Agerolese breed milk gives the character | At least 180 days (six months) at 8–15 °C | |
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| Provolone invecchiato di bufala di Formello | Italy, Lazio | | 12 months – 5 years | Thin, slightly elastic to rigid, ochre-yellow |
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| Provolone vaccino (Lazio) | Italy, Lazio | Whole cow milk, raw (Latina) or pasteurised at 70–72 °C (Amatrice) | 30–60 days to 1 year; the ARSIAL description gives 60 days to 1 year | Hard, smooth, straw-yellow, deepening with age, with brownish mould spots |
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| Provolone Valpadana PDO | Italy, Po valley | Whole cow milk, kept at no more than 12 °C, used within 60 hours of milking; raw, thermised or pasteurised by type | Dolce at most 2–3 months; piccante over 3 months; P.V.S. (piccante, over 30 kg) more than 8 months | |
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| Queijo Cabacinha | Brazil, Minas Gerais | | 7 days | |
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| Quesillo (Honduras, Nicaragua) | Central America | Fresh cow milk, whole, part-skimmed or skimmed; raw in artisanal plants | None; eaten fresh | |
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| Queso asadero | Mexico, especially the north and the Huasteca of San Luis Potosí | Often raw in small dairies; the sources do not name the species | 30 min | |
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| Queso de capas (Mompox) | Colombia, Bolívar | Raw cow milk; a 2014 study also made it from buffalo milk from Carmen de Bolívar (abstract) | No ripening step in the described make; the artisanal cheese has a short shelf life | |
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| Queso de mano | Venezuela | Raw cow milk, whole or skimmed | 16–20 h | |
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| Queso doble crema | Colombia | | | |
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| Queso Palmito | Costa Rica | | 6 h | |
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| Queso telita | Venezuela, traditional in the south of Bolívar state | | 24 h – 2 days | |
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| Ragusano PDO | Italy, Sicily, the Hyblean plateau | | at least 3 months | |
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| Redykołka PDO | Poland, Podhale and nearby Carpathian districts | Unpasteurised sheep milk, with up to 40% cow milk | 3–7 days | |
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| Scamorza | Southern Italy in origin | Cow milk | Short, under 30 days; 10 days at 4 °C in the Lazio make | |
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| Scamorza abruzzese | Italy, Abruzzo | | 7–10 days | Fresh none, porcelain white; dried, a thin smooth straw-yellow skin |
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| Scamorza appassita (Cacetto di Supino) | Italy, Lazio | Raw whole cow milk from Ciociaria herds | Fresh within 48 hours, or withered about 10 days | Very thin, elastic, sometimes waxy skin; straw-yellow |
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| Scamorza di Montella | Italy, Campania | | 10 days – 2 months | Fresh, a thin white skin; aged, a pale to deep straw skin |
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| Scamorza di pecora | Italy, Puglia | | 15–20 days | Fresh: none, white; ripened: very thin, smooth, pale straw skin |
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| Scamorza molisana | Italy, Molise | | 2–3 days | Thin smooth skin, white to straw; brown if smoked |
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| Scamorza vaccina (semplice e ripiena) | Italy, Lazio | | 10 days | Thin, smooth skin, ivory to straw, sometimes waxy |
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| Scamorzini del Matese | Italy, Campania | | 10 days – 2 months | Fresh: very thin white skin; semi-aged: thin, smooth, glossy straw rind |
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| Sfoglia di mozzarella | Italy, Campania | | 30 min – 2 h | None; smooth, glossy, snow-white surface |
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| Slovenská parenica PGI | Slovakia, the mountain part of the country above 200 m | Raw sheep milk, or raw sheep and cow milk with at least 50% sheep milk | 24 h | |
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| Slovenský oštiepok PGI | Slovakia, the mountain part of the country | Sheep, cow or mixed milk; raw on the salaš, pasteurised (73 °C, 15 s) in dairies | 24 h – 3 days | |
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| Stracciata del Matese | Italy, Campania | | 2–4 h | Very thin white skin, glossy |
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| Strazzatella silana | Italy, Calabria | | 3 days | None; smooth shiny cream-white |
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| Sulguni | Georgia | Cow, buffalo or goat milk or a mix; raw or pasteurised | Fresh, sold from 24 hours after salting; may be dried for days or weeks | |
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| Svanuri sulguni | Georgia, Svaneti | | | |
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| Tenili | Georgia, the Samtskhe-Javakheti region and a municipality of Kvemo Kartli | | 2–3 days | |
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| Treccia di Massa di Maratea | Italy, Basilicata | | 3–4 h | |
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| Treccia di Montella | Italy, Campania | | 3–4 h | Almost none; thin, smooth, shiny skin, milk-white to ivory |
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| Treccia di Santa Croce di Magliano | Italy, Molise | | 3–4 h | |
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| Treccia dura | Italy, Basilicata | | 4–5 h | None; smooth white surface |
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| Vastedda della Valle del Belìce PDO | Italy, Sicily, Valle del Belìce | Raw whole milk of Valle del Belìce sheep | None; eaten fresh, 12–48 hours after salting, and packed in polyethylene | |
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| Vastedda palermitana | Italy, Sicilia | | 2 days | None; smooth white-ivory surface |
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| Zázrivské vojky | Slovakia, Zázrivá | | 2–10 min | |
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| Zázrivský korbáčik | Slovakia, the village of Zázrivá in Orava | Lump cheese from raw or pasteurised cow milk | The specification says springiness falls with ripening | |
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| Bebè di Sorrento | Italy, Campania | | | Thin, soft, smooth, white to pale straw |
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| Burrini e burrata di bufala | Italy, Campania | | | Skin; smooth, glossy to matt, white to straw as it ages |
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| Dil peyniri | Türkiye | cow milk | | |
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| Gołka (ser gazdowski) | Poland, Podhale and the Silesian Beskids | Cow milk only | | |
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| Mshallaleh / Syrian string cheese | Syria | Traditionally cow milk; sheep and goat versions exist | 45 min – 1 h | |
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| Queso crineja | Venezuela | | | |
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| Queso de hoja (Puerto Rico) | Puerto Rico | Fresh cow milk | None described; a fresh cheese | |
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| Queso pera | Colombia, Boyacá | Fresh cow milk | | |
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| Riavulillo | Italy, Campania | | 3–20 days | Thin, fairly soft skin, yellow-ochre from the smoke |
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| Scamorza di bufala | Italy, Campania | | 24 h | Thin elastic skin, waxy after maturing; pearly white, light ochre if smoked |
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| Scamosciata | Italy, Campania | | | Very thin skin, porcelain white |
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| Türkmen saçak peyniri (saçaklı peynir) | Turkey, Kars and Ardahan | | | |
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