Dairy cuisine - what is it?

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Our society is rather ambivalent about such a phenomenon as dairy kitchens. Some mothers are indignant why they are not given prescriptions for dairy products, others themselves refuse them, believing that everything free is of poor quality and harmful. Let's look at this phenomenon objectively, weighing all the pros and cons.

Children's dairy cuisine appeared in the USSR - a state that, as far as possible, took care of the younger generation. State control gave a guarantee of the quality of products intended for children. The society of socialism, which proclaimed equality for all, did not graduate the population, and each child received access to dairy kitchens. Their main goal was to provide babies with high-quality fermented milk products necessary for normal development and growth, moreover, suitable in composition for the child's body.

The state and society have changed, the era of capitalism has come. Dairy kitchens have also changed their purpose, and the attitude of the state towards them has also changed. From time to time you can read information in the mediaon new laws adopted by the constituent entities of the Russian Federation in the field of social support for the population. It is positioned something like this: “Achieved! Children from low-income families will receive "milk" in specialized points! No one says that these points are located in such a way that it is impossible to get there, especially with a child. In order to get the right to free dairy products, you need to collect documents and “walk” through the authorities. There is no particular guarantee that the products will be of the highest quality - poisoning of small consumers occurs from time to time.

Thus, in modern society, dairy cuisines have a pronounced social orientation. They are designed primarily to support low-income families. There is no unequivocal answer to the question of who is supposed to have a dairy kitchen, due to the fact that it is decided on the ground in different ways. The following categories are more or less common for all of Russia:

• children under 2-3 years old (depending on the region) from families whose per capita income is below the subsistence level;
• children with chronic diseases under 15;
• disabled children under 18.

In connection with the above, children from middle-income families are in a cramped position. Their parents buy fermented milk products in the store and also have no confidence in the quality and acceptability of these products for children. Moms who have time make their own kefirs and curds for their kids. In this case, they can really be sure of the freshness and quality of the product. But not everyone has such an opportunity. Often, young mothers “negotiate” with a pediatrician and become consumers of dairy cuisines.

So, on the one hand, dairy kitchens are necessary, especially for the category of citizens who raise children in poverty, on the other hand, there is a need for dairy products adapted for children in families of medium and high incomes. A good option could be a paid children's dairy kitchen on a par with a free one (for socially vulnerable families). The state must change its attitude to product quality control and proper provision of a unified legislative framework for the whole of Russia, so that a child whose parents are registered in another city or region is not deprived.