Exclusively severe social conditions determine poor-quality diet and nourishment: David Pipoyan

Exclusively severe social conditions determine poor-quality diet and nourishment in Armenia. “For good purchases, you need to have a good budget. High-quality sausage does not cost 1000 drams,” adds food expert David Pipoyan.

He also underlines that we are so detached from the Armenian cuisine that today's restaurants do not even offer Armenian dishes. “Meanwhile, the ingredients of the Armenian dishes are cheaper and healthier," he notes.

There are two most vulnerable topics for Pipoyan: nutrition of kindergarten children and soldiers. “I can not imagine an Armenian who processes the spoiled chicken with manganese solution and take it to the kindergarten. All of the officials who are involved in this should be filmed and shown on television so that they become 'persona non grata', so that the society could split on them and the next ones could not commit such misdemeanor,” he says.

The details concerning the peculiarities of the national diet, the Armenian cuisine, and food in general in the program “Hard Talk”.