The doctor advised eating pancakes with stewed vegetables and spinach on Shrovetide.

Stewed vegetables, lean meat or fish, as well as cottage cheese and spinach should be chosen as a filling for pancakes during Shrovetide week. The press service of the Ministry of Health of the Moscow Region reported this on Tuesday, February 17, with reference to Elena Pekhotina, a gastroenterologist at Krasnogorsk Hospital.

According to the expert, an ideal pancake should contain enough protein and fiber to avoid sudden spikes in blood sugar and ensure long-term satiety.

"The most balanced options are cottage cheese with 2-5% fat content combined with yogurt, boiled poultry meat, low—fat fish, stewed vegetables — zucchini, pumpkin, and applesauce without sugar," the Moscow City News agency quoted Pekhotin as saying.

Greens and spinach will help enrich the filling with vitamins. 360.ru . The specialist warned that combinations of fats with fast carbohydrates are difficult for digestion, for example, condensed milk, fatty creams, fried bacon, sausages and mayonnaise dressings, writes RIAMO. She also recommended avoiding pancakes with salted fish and lots of cheese.

She added that people with chronic diseases should approach the choice of fillings carefully. So, with diabetes, it is better to give preference to protein-vegetable combinations with a low glycemic index.

"With hypertension, it is important to minimize the amount of salt and eliminate smoked products, and with high cholesterol, caviar, fatty sour cream and cream are not recommended. For the elderly and children, fillings with a soft consistency that are easily digested are optimal: baked apple, banana, cottage cheese or turkey meat," concluded Pekhotina.

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Earlier, on February 15, nutritionist Elena Solomatina advised those who are losing weight to choose light toppings for pancakes, according to the website. kp.ru . Vegetables, berries, low-fat dairy products and low-fat wild fish are ideal.

State Duma deputies have sent an appeal to the head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), Maxim Shaskolsky, asking him to check the prices of products for pancakes.

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