Can you eat mozzarella while you are pregnant?

Answer 1

Mozzarella cheese should have no harmful affects on your baby during pregnancy.

-Traditional Mozzarella cheese, is made from un-pasteurised water buffalo milk - this should be avoided.

Most cheese available at the supermarket is made from Pasteurised cow milk and is safe.

Always read the label to confirm that Pasteurised milk is used, and ask at a restaurant.

The most common use of real traditional mozzarella is on cold anti pasta dishes, which should be avoided anyway as contains cold cuts of meat etc.

To summarise cheese eating rules while pregnant-

1. Cheese must contain only Pasteurised milk.

2. Cheese must not contain any mould, this rules out blue vein cheese, it also rules out cheese with a bloom exterior such as Brie or Camembert