diff --git a/src/fondant/components/write_to_file/src/main.py b/src/fondant/components/write_to_file/src/main.py
index 3bdb7117..b18cb6ee 100644
--- a/src/fondant/components/write_to_file/src/main.py
+++ b/src/fondant/components/write_to_file/src/main.py
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ def write(self, dataframe: dd.DataFrame) -> None:
             self.path = self.path + "/export-*.csv"
             dataframe.to_csv(self.path)
         elif self.format.lower() == "parquet":
-            dataframe.to_parquet(self.path)
+            schema = {field.name: field.type.value for field in self.consumes.values()}
+            dataframe.to_parquet(self.path, schema=schema, write_metadata_file=True)
         else:
             msg = (
                 f"Not supported file format {self.format}. Writing to file is only "