Fontina DOP Cheese

Fontina DOP Cheese
This delicious cheese, made from pasteurized cow's milk, is recognizable by its soft, nutty flavour and characteristic smell. With a light yellow colour and small round holes, it is a firm and full cheese, which melts wonderfully on your tongue.
Description Fontina DOP Cheese
Italy is known for good food and it’s quality products. This certainly applies to the cheeses from Italy and Fontina is one of the jewels that originated in the Northwest of the country. In Aosta, located at the border where Italy meets with France and Switzerland, it is produced between the highest mountains of Europe. This delicious cheese, made from pasteurized cow's milk, is recognizable by its soft, nutty flavour and characteristic smell. With a light yellow colour and small round holes, it is a firm and full cheese, which melts wonderfully on your tongue.
An excellent table cheese
Originally, Fontina is served with grapes or celery, combined with white bread toast. Nowadays this cheese is used in many other ways, including the enrichment of sauces and fillings for different dishes. Due to its smooth texture the cheese melts well, making it an excellent cheese to create a delicious cheese fondue.
Ingredients:
Fat 50+ , pasteurised cow's milk, rennet, salt
Quality
Your cheese is freshly cut and vacuum-packaged!
The hard structure of Fontina Cheese makes it perfectly suitable for sending by post. This is an orginal Fontina Cheese
More information
Dimension whole cheese | 24 x 12 cm |
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Brand | Fontina DOP |
Flavor strength | Pithy |
Country origin | Italy
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Nutritional information | per 100 grams |
fat (gr) | 28.6 |
Saturated fat (gr) | 20 |
Calcium (mg) | 717 |
Calories (kcal) | 345 |
Kilojoules (KJ) | 1431 |
Carbohydrates (gr) | 0 |
Protein (gr) | 21.9 |
Sodium (mg) | 0.592 |
Type of milk | Cow
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Type of rennet | Rennet |
Lactose-free | No |
Pasteurized Yes/No | Pasteurized |
Limited shelf life | No |