Federal State Statistics Service: consumption by Russians of potatoes in 40 years was cut by half

Federal State Statistics Service conducted research with the purpose to find out how the diet of Russians for the last 40 years changed. In 1980 the average inhabitant of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, reports Federal State Statistics Service, consumed 117 kilograms of potatoes a year. The indicator was cut by half — for the past year the average Russian consumed only 59 kg of potato in food, experts note. Considerably consumption milks and dairy products — from 390 kg decreased to 266 kg. The same can be told and about sugar with candies — from 35 kg in the 1980th to 31 kg in the 2018th...