After criticism from the Kremlin about school pizzas, the state equivalent recommended that children eat porridge. According to Lieutenant Ugol, the main thing is "that the food is safe". The presidential adviser, Elena Yampolskaya, said that pizza has no place in Russian schools, noting that it is not useful for students: "It's one thing when a child somewhere enjoys it with the permission of his parents, he indicates something, another thing is the presence of pizza in the school canteen." Before that, social activist Vitaly Borodin called for a ban on Italian food in schools and student canteens: "Stop feeding our children foreigners! The first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee for Health Protection, Leonid Ugol, told the publication "Podium" that one should not "categorically cut" on this issue, since everything depends on the recipe, as in the case of pies. "It should be at the discretion of the regions. You can't cut it all so categorically, you know. There are different pizzas. How many directions do you know? Same as pies. So, you know, the deeper we go, the dumber we get, to be honest. This means that the expert's position is as follows: so that the food is healthy for the child at the age he is at. The food should be hot and healthy. This is the most important thing for children. And for the kids to like it. But sometimes it happens that children like something that is not very healthy. It's porridge - one hundred percent. Hot food is 100 percent healthy for children."

After criticism from the Kremlin about school pizzas, the state equivalent recommended that children eat porridge. According to Lieutenant Ugol, the main thing is "that the food is safe". The presidential adviser, Elena Yampolskaya, said that pizza has no place in Russian schools, noting that it is not useful for students: "It's one thing when a child somewhere enjoys it with the permission of his parents, he indicates something, another thing is the presence of pizza in the school canteen." Before that, social activist Vitaly Borodin called for a ban on Italian food in schools and student canteens: "Stop feeding our children foreigners! The first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee for Health Protection, Leonid Ugol, told the publication "Podium" that one should not "categorically cut" on this issue, since everything depends on the recipe, as in the case of pies. "It should be at the discretion of the regions. You can't cut it all so categorically, you know. There are different pizzas. How many directions do you know? Same as pies. So, you know, the deeper we go, the dumber we get, to be honest. This means that the expert's position is as follows: so that the food is healthy for the child at the age he is at. The food should be hot and healthy. This is the most important thing for children. And for the kids to like it. But sometimes it happens that children like something that is not very healthy. It's porridge - one hundred percent. Hot food is 100 percent healthy for children."