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List of French cheeses
The following is a list of cheeses from France. France is home to a very large number of cheese types. An estimate of this number is between 350 and 400.
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Protected Designation of Origin
Under the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union, certain well-established cheeses, including many French cheeses, are covered by a Protected Designation of Origin and other, less stringent designations of geographical origin for traditional specialties.
A complete list of agricultural products with an EU Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), Protected Geographical Indication (PGI), or Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG), listed alphabetically by nation, is at the Europa Agriculture site.
List of Protected Designation of Origin French cheeses
Many familiar generic types, like Boursin, are not covered. It may come as a surprise to see varieties of Emmental cheese protected as a French cheese:
- Abondance
- Beaufort
- Bleu d'Auvergne (AOC, Auvergne)
- Bleu des Causses
- Bleu du Haut-Jura , de Gex , de Septmoncel
- Bleu du Vercors
- Brie de Meaux
- Brie de Melun
- Brocciu Corse or Brocciu
- Cantal or Fourme de Cantal or Cantalet (AOC, Auvergne)
- Camembert de Normandie
- Chabichou du Poitou
- Chaource
- Comté
- Crottin de Chavignol ou Chavignol
- Emmental de Savoie
- Emmental français est-central
- Epoisses de Bourgogne
- Fourme d'Ambert or Fourme de Montbrison (AOC, Auvergne)
- Laguiole
- Langres
- Livarot
- Maroilles or Marolles
- Mont d'or or Vacherin du Haut-Doubs
- Morbier
- Munster or Munster-Géromé
- Neufchâtel
- Ossau-lraty
- Pélardon
- Picodon de l'Ardèche or Picodon de la Drôme
- Pont-l'Evêque
- Pouligny-Saint-Pierre
- Reblochon or Reblochon de Savoie
- Rocamadour
- Roquefort
- Saint-Nectaire (AOC, Auvergne)
- Sainte-Maure de Touraine
- Salers (AOC, Auvergne)
- Selles-sur-Cher
- Tomme de Savoie
- Tomme des Pyrénées
Other French cheeses include
- Abbaye de Citeaux
- Babybel
- Banon
- Belle des champs
- Bleu de Bresse
- Boursin
- Brousse
- Brie
- Brillat-Savarin
- Camembert
- Cancoillotte
- Carré de l'Est
- Chabichou
- Chaumes
- Chèvre
- Couloumiers
- Fromage Blanc
- Pont-l'Evêque
- Port-Salut
- Port-du-Salut (or "Entrammes")
- Saint-Agur
- Saint-André
- Tomme Boudane
- Tomme au Fenouil
- Tomme du Revard
- Vacherin
- Vieux Lille