List of United Kingdom food and drink products with protected status

A number of United Kingdom food and drink products have been granted Protected Geographical Status under European Union law through the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) or Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG) regimes. The legislation is designed to protect regional foods and came into force in 1992.

The United Kingdom has a relatively short list of these, partly because of the industrialisation of agriculture.^[1]

This list is sourced from the official index published by the European Commission.^[2]

Contents 1 Food and drink products 1.1 Beer 1.2 Pastries 1.3 Cheese 1.4 Cider and Perry 1.5 Cream 1.6 Fish 1.7 Meat 1.8 Vegetables 2 Applications 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

Food and drink products

Beer

• Kentish ale Protected Geographical Indication (PGI)
• Kentish strong ale (PGI)
• Rutland bitter (PGI)
• Newcastle Brown Ale (former PGI)

Pastries

• Melton Mowbray pork pie (PGI)
• Cornish pasty (PGI)

Cheese

• Beacon Fell traditional Lancashire cheese (PDO)
• Bonchester cheese (PDO)
• Buxton blue (PDO)
• Dorset Blue cheese (PGI)
• Dovedale cheese (PDO)
• Exmoor Blue cheese (PGI)
• Single Gloucester (PDO)
• Staffordshire Cheese (PDO)
• Swaledale cheese (PDO)
• Swaledale ewes' cheese (PDO)
• Teviotdale cheese (PGI)
• Stilton - White cheese (PDO)
• Stilton - Blue cheese (PDO)
• West Country farmhouse Cheddar cheese (PDO)

Cider and Perry

• Gloucestershire cider (PGI)
• Gloucestershire perry (PGI)
• Herefordshire cider (PGI)
• Herefordshire perry (PGI)
• Worcestershire cider (PGI)
• Worcestershire perry (PGI)

Cream

• Cornish Clotted Cream (PDO)

Fish

• Arbroath Smokies (PGI)
• Cornish Sardines (PGI)
• Scottish Farmed Salmon
• Traditional Grimsby smoked fish (PGI)
• Whitstable Oysters (PGI)

Meat

• Orkney beef (PDO)
• Orkney lamb (PDO)
• Scotch beef (PGI)
• Scotch lamb (PGI)
• Shetland lamb (PDO)
• Traditional Cumberland Sausage (PGI)
• Traditionally Farmed Gloucestershire Old Spots Pork (TSG)
• Welsh Beef (PGI)
• Welsh lamb

Vegetables

• Jersey Royal potatoes (PDO)
• Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb (PDO)

Applications

• Armagh Bramley Apples (PGI)
• Isle of Man Queenies (PDO)
• Lincolnshire sausage (PGI)
• Newmarket sausages (PGI)
• New Season Comber Potatoes (PGI)
• Scottish Wild Salmon (PGI)
• South West of England Beef (PGI)
• South West of England Lamb (PGI)
• Traditional Bramley Apple Pie Filling (TSG)
• Traditional Grass fed Red Poll beef (TSG)
• Traditional Pasture Reared Beef (TSG)
• Watercress (TSG)
• Yorkshire Wensleydale cheese (PDO)

See also

• Agriculture in the United Kingdom
• English cuisine
• List of Republic of Ireland food and drink products with protected status

References

External links

• Official list of UK protected foods