Dry-cured whole muscle
Culatello
The boned inner muscle of the hind leg, cased and aged. The protected specifications are among the most restrictive in the register on both area and ageing.
What this page is built from
- Protected names
- 1
- US standards of identity
- 0
- Composition rows
- 0
- Named by FSIS
- no
This page exists because these joins exist. A class name that joined to nothing would not have a page.
US standard of identity
No section of 9 CFR part 319 defines this product. That is worth knowing: it means the name carries no compositional guarantee in the United States, and two products sold under it may have been made quite differently.
Protected names in this class
Buying it
The inner muscle of the ham, boned and cased, and the most restricted product in the Italian register: Culatello di Zibello is a designation of origin confined to a handful of communes in the Po valley fog. The real thing is genuinely scarce, and the word appears on plenty of products that are not it.
What to read on the label. Zibello is the protected name. Culatello alone is a cut.
Worth repeating in a buying context: no section of 9 CFR part 319 defines this product, so in the United States the word on the front of the pack is a marketing term. The compositional statements that are regulated are the ones on the back, in the ingredient list and the nutrition panel.
This is not a protected designation. The listing below is a product of this type, not a registered name. The register entries for this class are listed above and none of them is what is linked here.
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Register data: eAmbrosia, the EU geographical indications register, retrieved 2026-09-04. Composition: USDA FoodData Central, retrieved 2026-09-04, All values are per 100 g of the food as described.