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This BBC article on the history of the pizza mentioned that there are 3 basic types of Neapolitan pizza (the "authentic pizza"): http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200415...tan-master
- The Margherita, topped with tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese and fresh basil
- The Marinara, which skips the cheese and uses oregano and garlic instead of basil
- The “DOC”, made with mozzarella di bufala (buffalo mozzarella) instead of the usual fior di latte made from cow’s milk

And they mentioned that only 2 types of mozzarella are used for Neapolitan pizza:
- Fior di latte, made from cow’s milk
- Mozzarella di bufala, made from the milk of the water buffalo that live in the country’s Campania and Lazio regions.

Mozzarella di bufala (buffalo mozzarella), credit: Barmalini, Getty Images

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Here is apparently one of those Italian water buffaloes that is used to produce that kind of mozzarella for the authentic Italian pizza, by Yashima:

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