List of cheeses from Switzerland

Market stall in Lucerne (2007)

The list of cheeses from Switzerland represents a selection. There is talk of a total of 450 types of cheese from Switzerland . In 2014 185,331 tons of cheese were produced.

species

A distinction is made between:

• Cream cheese: cottage cheese, quark, mozzarella, formaggini, mascarpone, feta, cream cheese specialties.
• Soft cheese with mold maturation: Camembert Suisse, Brie Suisse; without mold ripening: Münster, Vacherin Mont d´Or.
• Semi-hard cheese: Appenzeller, Tilsiter, raclette.
• Hard cheese: Emmentaler, Gruyère.
• Extra hard cheese: Sbrinz, Parmino.

The fat content is divided into:

• Skimmed cheese: less than 15% fat i. Tr.
• Quarter fat cheese: at least 15% fat i. Tr.
• Semi-fat cheese: at least 25% fat i. Tr.
• Full fat cheese: at least 45% fat i. Tr.
• Cream cheese: at least 55% fat i. Tr.
• Double cream cheese: at least 65% fat i. Tr.

list

Denomination of Origin	region	Milk from:	protection	Type	Illustration
Appenzeller	Cantons of Appenzell Innerrhoden and Ausserrhoden			Raw milk semi-hard cheese
Berner Alpkäse or Berner sliced ​​cheese	Bernese Oberland / Canton of Bern	cow	AOP	Raw milk cheese
Bloderkäse , sour cheese (preliminary stage)	Canton of St. Gallen and Principality of Liechtenstein	cow	AOP	Sour cheese
Bratchäs				Semi-hard cheese
Capreggio				Goat's raw milk cheese
Chevré
Couronne (Central Switzerland)
Emmentaler	Cantons of Aargau , Bern , Glarus , Lucerne , Schwyz , Solothurn , St. Gallen , Thurgau , Zug , Zurich and Freiburg	cow	AOP	Raw milk hard cheese
L'Etivaz	Municipalities of Château-d'Oex , Rougemont , Rossinière , Ollon , Villeneuve , Ormont-Dessus , Ormont-Dessous , Corbeyrier , Leysin and Bex	cow	AOP	Raw milk hard cheese
Formaggio d'Alpe Ticinese	Canton of Ticino	goat	AOP	Semi-hard cheese
Glarus alpine cheese	Canton of Glarus	cow	AOP	Raw milk semi-hard cheese
Glarus Schabziger	Canton Glarus , oldest branded product in Switzerland	cow
Girenbader Chöpfli (Zurich Oberland)				Raw milk semi-hard cheese
Grottino
Le Gruyère or Gruyere	Cantons of Bern , Friborg , Vaud , Neuchâtel and Jura as well as parts of German-speaking Switzerland	cow	AOP	Raw milk hard cheese
Mühlibach
Rasskäse
Schabziger / Sap Sago
Sbrinz	Cantons of Lucerne , Schwyz , Obwalden and Nidwalden , Zug and Bern		AOP	Raw milk hard cheese
Serac
Tete de Moine	Freiberg , Pruntrut , Moutier and Courtelary , Saulcy and the parcel of the Courgenay cheese dairy	cow	AOP	Raw milk semi-hard cheese
Tilsiter # Swiss Tilsiter
Tomme Vaudoise
Trifolaite	Canton of Valais	Cow, sheep and goat		Semi-hard cheese
Vacherin Fribourgeois	Canton of Friborg and the Bernese communities of Clavaleyres and Münchenwiler	cow	AOP	Semi-hard cheese
Vacherin Mont-d'Or Suisse	Vallée de Joux and the foot of the Vaud Jura	cow	AOP	Soft cheese
Valdor (Wallis)
Valais raclette	Canton of Valais	cow	AOP	Raw milk semi-hard cheese
Valais raclette sliced ​​cheese	Canton of Valais	cow	AOP	Raw milk, extra hard full-fat cheese
Valais raclette sliced ​​cheese	Canton of Valais	cow	AOP	Raw milk, semi-hard full-fat cheese
Ziger	especially known in the special form Schabziger from the canton of Glarus	cow
Lucerne cream cheese	Canton lucerne	cow		Semi-hard cheese made from pasteurized milk and cream	Lucerne cream cheese

See also

• Swiss food with a protected origin - cheese
• List of cheeses by country of origin - Switzerland

literature

• Brigitte Engelmann, Peter Holler: The gourmet manual cheese. Ullmann, Königswinter 2008, ISBN 978-3-8331-5023-4 .
• Anne Iburg: Dumont's little cheese dictionary. Dörfler Verlag, Königsheim 2004, ISBN 978-3-89555-204-5 .

Web links

Commons : Cheese from Switzerland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Cheese and dairy products in the database of Culinary Heritage of Switzerland
• Switzerland Cheese Marketing AG: Cheese dictionary

Individual evidence

1. ↑ schweizerkaese.ch
2. ↑ Landwirtschaft.ch
3. ↑ srf.ch
4. ↑ schweizerkaese.ch