This year, the festive week of Maslenitsa begins on March 4 and lasts until March 10. We are all used to that these days, the main element of the diet are pancakes with a variety of fillings, mostly fatty and high-calorie. Favorite Russians - pancakes with caviar, minced meat, apples, jam and cottage cheese.

Domestic nutritionists, having carefully examined the pancake week's menu, came to the conclusion that it is best for Russians to opt for curd filling, since against the background of the rest it is it that is the most easily digestible and not burdensome for the human body.

But that's not all. Nutritionists of the Federal Research Center for Nutrition and Biotechnology strongly recommend that Russian consumers approach Maslenitsa responsibly, but with fiction, and replace the usual pancakes with ... cheesecakes. Cottage cheese - the main component of cheesecakes - is more useful than fatty and high-calorie pancakes. With magnesium, calcium, potassium, phosphorus and iron in it, rich in vitamins A, D and B, it is suitable as a healthy diet for children, nursing mothers, pregnant women and the elderly. At the same time, nutritionists advise not to fry cheese cakes, but bake them in the oven without adding vegetable oil. It is better to flavor a treat not with fat sour cream, but with low-calorie yogurt. But in the formulation of the test for cheese cakes, you can diversify by adding dried fruits without harm to the figure and health.