PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide, by targeting a soft cheese surface-ripened by fungi (e.g., film yeast-based cheese, etc.), a soft cheese surface-ripened by fungi and capable of sustaining, even in a case where a sweet foodstuff has been added thereto before or during ripening, a sufficient flavor of the foodstuff after ripening and a method for manufacturing the same.SOLUTION: The provided soft cheese product surface-ripened by foodstuff-added fungi is a soft cheese surface-ripened by foodstuff-added fungi and capable of sustaining the flavor of the foodstuff even after ripening by coating at least a portion of the foodstuff with an edible film or coating agent. It is desirable for the edible film or coating agent to have an attribute of not transmitting or hardly transmitting microorganisms and/or enzymes produced by microorganisms or an attribute of being scarcely utilized by microorganisms. The foodstuff is at least one selected from among honey, jam, fruit, fruit preparation, maple sugar, and products prepared from these entities.
