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[00:02:30] Hello everyone, I'm Artyom Shalimov, and this is our consumer oversight, a program about
[00:02:33] how to make life long, comfortable, safe, and most importantly, how not
[00:02:37] to overpay for all this, here's what we'll tell
[00:02:40] you today.
[00:02:43] Why is sugar getting more expensive? Are there real reasons for this,
[00:02:47] or is it the machinations of speculators?
[00:02:50] Milk from which factories is infected with E. coli?
[00:02:53] Is it true that chemicals are sprinkled into white wine to make
[00:02:57] it more transparent? How to choose
[00:03:00] quality. Candies from which factory should not be given
[00:03:03] to children, because mold has grown in the sweets?
[00:03:07] Swindlers are massively mixing cottage cheese into sausage, a forbidden
[00:03:10] additive - meat glue. Which brands
[00:03:13] endanger our health and a recipe
[00:03:17] for an oriental dish from Abraham
[00:03:18] Russo.
[00:03:22] Let's start with one of the main economic topics of the week - sugar
[00:03:25] prices, which, alas, are not sweet at all. Since
[00:03:28] the beginning of the year, they have risen
[00:03:30] by 26.5%.
[00:03:33] At the same time, the average price per kilogram is already over 85
[00:03:36] rubles. And it's clear that sugar is more
[00:03:40] popular than ever in autumn. It's the main ingredient for berry and
[00:03:44] fruit preserves. The Antimonopoly Service has already
[00:03:47] announced that it is checking supermarkets, whether their profit
[00:03:50] is too delicious and whether there is a conspiracy. And our
[00:03:54] reporter Ruslan Skripka decided to investigate what this
[00:03:57] sugar price anomaly is, because Russia is actually
[00:04:01] a world leader in sugar beet
[00:04:03] cultivation.
[00:04:13] Lipetsk region - fields the size of 1,200 football
[00:04:16] stadiums, and under the ground are hidden tons of future
[00:04:19] sugar. The harvesting campaign is starting right
[00:04:23] now. It seems the technology is simpler than steamed beets. Planted,
[00:04:26] dug up, count the profit, but in fact, the work here
[00:04:30] is endless, to collect so much harvest from
[00:04:33] these seemingly endless fields, you definitely can't do without
[00:04:37] this sixty-ton harvester
[00:04:39] combine. First of all, this
[00:04:42] machinery with a sharp, like a blade knife,
[00:04:45] cuts off the tops from the beets, then the
[00:04:48] root crops are sent to the root puller. And
[00:04:52] only after that the beets
[00:04:55] get into these metal stars, where
[00:04:58] they are spun several times, like on a carousel, cleaning
[00:05:02] off sand, residual tops and stones, and after
[00:05:06] that, along the conveyor, the clean
[00:05:09] and neat beets are loaded into the truck.
[00:05:16] The struggle for the harvest goes on around the clock, ahead are two, three, or even four
[00:05:19] months of exhausting survival races, where the main enemy is
[00:05:22] unpredictable autumn weather. What interferes, well, we have
[00:05:26] chernozem - it's like plasticine, that's
[00:05:29] one. Plus, the combine starts to clog,
[00:05:32] the harvesting speed drops, the quality of the
[00:05:36] product drops, the beets are dirtier,
[00:05:39] the harvested crop is piled into giant mounds on the edge. They
[00:05:43] are called kogaty.
[00:05:45] These beets, unlike those that usually grow in gardens or
[00:05:49] that are fed, for example, to animals,
[00:05:52] look, they are noticeably larger, they are
[00:05:55] elongated, but if you cut them, which can be
[00:05:59] done with great difficulty, you can see that
[00:06:02] inside they are also white, and most importantly,
[00:06:05] these beets are record holders in sugar content,
[00:06:09] it's almost 20% here.
[00:06:17] Growing the right mountains of such root crops turns out to be
[00:06:20] a separate type of agricultural art, explain the Ryazan
[00:06:24] agrarians, and it's not easy to sow it either, to get into
[00:06:27] moist soil, so that the shoots are even,
[00:06:31] well, and to treat it correctly, so that it is clean, when it's
[00:06:35] clean, it grows better, fertilizer must be applied
[00:06:39] accordingly, otherwise what will it grow from?
[00:06:52] with weeds, and pests attack the root crop. The first disease is
[00:06:55] cercospora of beet, it's a leaf apparatus disease,
[00:06:59] beet rot, it's the root crop itself that gets sick. A crooked root crop
[00:07:02] will simply be spit out by the combine, and the factory will not pay a penny for low
[00:07:06] sugar content, so a large harvest begins with
[00:07:09] a microscopic seed. Today it's not just
[00:07:12] a simple seed, it's a real capsule of life, resembling not so much
[00:07:15] a candy in glaze as a bullet for airguns, each
[00:07:19] family is encased in powerful vitamin armor, which increases
[00:07:22] germination and protects from pests, the difference with
[00:07:26] technologies of the last century is enormous, if before we
[00:07:29] weeded, they were, well, solid,
[00:07:32] from one seed three
[00:07:35] shoots could grow, three together would not develop, there would be a struggle for nutrition,
[00:07:39] now they are all polished,
[00:07:42] separated, each seed
[00:07:45] is coated, there are micro-fertilizers, insecticidal
[00:07:49] treatment, everything in this
[00:07:50] seed.
[00:07:54] For many years, domestic agrarians were heavily reliant on
[00:07:58] imported seed. Germany, France, and the Netherlands
[00:08:01] dictated fashion, while our selection lagged behind global
[00:08:04] trends. Despite the fact that we have been doing this all our lives, the country has been
[00:08:08] engaged in sugar beet breeding for over 100 years, we were somewhere
[00:08:12] 30 years ago behind the global
[00:08:16] breeding trends, from new technologies
[00:08:19] for seed preparation, but after 15 years
[00:08:22] of painstaking breeding, every fourth grain in the ground already has
[00:08:26] Russian registration, the areas under domestic
[00:08:29] seeds, promise breeders, will only grow, and this is very
[00:08:33] timely, overseas hybrids hit the pocket too hard, if
[00:08:37] sugar costs 50 rubles, the wholesale price of sugar,
[00:08:40] wholesale is...
[00:10:56] Prices are also pulled up by a factor that economists call seasonality. This is
[00:10:59] when last year's sugar is already running out, and the new one has only just
[00:11:03] begun to be produced. In Russia, sugar is mainly
[00:11:06] produced from the second half of August to the first
[00:11:10] half of January, this is almost the entire volume, and what is produced in
[00:11:13] February-July is an insignificant volume,
[00:11:16] respectively, in the first half of
[00:11:20] 2026, and also in July, sugar stocks
[00:11:23] decreased and...
[00:11:33] by July they were almost completely exhausted and prices began to noticeably increase in the optical range, however, there is no need to fear empty shelves, explains the expert, the country provides itself
[00:11:37] with sand and refined sugar in abundance, 105%. The price in
[00:11:40] the optical range has already started to fall and will soon fall on store shelves.
[00:11:44] Wholesale prices began their
[00:11:47] decline a month ago, they have already
[00:11:50] dropped by more than 20%. Stabilization
[00:11:53] and subsequent decline.
[00:12:04] as in previous years, do not expect, factories and farmers have to include in the cost the increased
[00:12:07] diesel fuel, equipment and logistics, but there will certainly be a lot of sugar, promise
[00:12:11] farmers, enough for preserves and until the next harvest,
[00:12:14] certainly.
[00:12:18] Chicken, alas, is also not cheap, and it would be good if
[00:12:22] its quality was excellent, but the other day a
[00:12:25] check of one of the large poultry farms revealed
[00:12:29] simply a gigantic number of violations. Details in the summary of the most
[00:12:32] important consumer news. Inspectors
[00:12:35] came to the Tokaryovskaya poultry farm, where, among
[00:12:38] other things, chicken of the brands "Nasha Ptichka" (Our Bird) and "Udachnaya
[00:12:42] Tsena" (Lucky Price) is produced. They found as many as 400
[00:12:45] violations related to poultry keeping,
[00:12:48] the safety of ready meat and its examination. The
[00:12:52] factory was checked after it was found that
[00:13:02] This same bacteria, by the way, was found in chicken from another division of the same company, OOO
[00:13:04] Stavropol Broiler, which produces the brand
[00:13:07] Blagoyar.
[00:13:09] And in canned olives, another bacteria was found -
[00:13:13] Listeria. The product is massively recalled from shelves.
[00:13:17] A snack of what brand turned out to be deadly
[00:13:20] dangerous, we will tell you right after a very short commercial
[00:13:23] break. And here's what else. You'll find
[00:13:25] out everything.
[00:13:28] Milk from which factories is infected with E. coli?
[00:13:31] Is it true that chemicals are sprinkled into white wine to make
[00:13:35] it more transparent? How to choose quality?
[00:13:39] Candies from which factory should not be given to children, because
[00:13:42] mold has grown in the sweets. Swindlers
[00:13:46] are massively mixing cottage cheese into sausage, a forbidden additive
[00:13:49] - meat glue. Which brands endanger our
[00:13:53] health and...
[00:19:18] I insist. Why can't the school administration deal with
[00:19:22] young hooligans who regularly disrupt classes?
[00:19:25] How did I threaten him? What did I tell him? It's scary
[00:19:29] to send a child to school. The whole class
[00:19:32] studied in the teacher's room to protect our children. Why
[00:19:35] does a mother of many children encourage?
[00:20:07] in Andrey Kunitzin's author's program "Chelovek v Prave" (Man in Law).
[00:20:10] Today at 16:20 on
[00:20:13] NTV.
[00:20:16] We are back on air, this is our consumer supervision.
[00:20:19] Canned olives from Spain were found to be infected
[00:20:23] with a dangerous bacterium, Listeria.
[00:20:26] Pitted olives of the brand Waitrose are being recalled from
[00:20:29] European shelves. Manufacturers found that a
[00:20:33] pathogenic Listeria had multiplied in the product, which is unaffected
[00:20:36] by even high concentrations of salt and
[00:20:39] acids, and which can lead to meningitis
[00:20:42] and sepsis. Fortunately, there have been no victims. Olives
[00:20:46] of this brand are not exported to Russia. For
[00:20:50] that, sweets of the brand Baby Fox are popular in our country,
[00:20:53] however, they are now being urgently removed from stores.
[00:20:56] It turned out that mold had grown in children's
[00:20:59] sweets. A batch of waffle candies. Baby
[00:21:03] Fox Kremichok with a volume of more than 8 tons is being removed
[00:21:07] from sale throughout Russia. Controllers found an almost
[00:21:10] threefold excess of mold in the dessert. And during
[00:21:14] court proceedings, it turned out that the factory
[00:21:17] had already been fined for unsanitary conditions. Raw materials
[00:21:20] in production crossed paths with finished products, and wooden
[00:21:24] pallets were covered with mold.
[00:21:27] The danger lies in how long the child consumed this
[00:21:31] product, and from this there will already be consequences, such as an impact
[00:21:35] on the immune system, for example, on the liver
[00:21:38] or on the urinary
[00:21:39] system.
[00:21:42] But where you're unlikely to find mold is in the refrigerator
[00:21:45] of the famous singer Avraam Russo, who can
[00:21:48] light up not only on the stage, but also in the kitchen. He has proven
[00:21:52] many times, including, for example, in the culinary show "Culinary Duel" on
[00:21:56] NTV, that he cooks as wonderfully as he
[00:21:59] sings, and at the same time he has long been leading a healthy
[00:22:02] lifestyle. That's why we went to visit the
[00:22:05] artist, and the refrigerator inspection was just an excuse,
[00:22:09] and the main goal, of course, was a recipe for a real
[00:22:13] oriental
[00:22:25] Abraham, hello, hello, hello, good afternoon, glad to see you, have
[00:22:29] you had this experience before, checking what I eat, what I don't eat, no,
[00:22:32] I haven't, then let's see what
[00:22:35] products, not all of them are mine, let's start with this, because friends were here
[00:22:39] the day before yesterday, they dragged some things
[00:22:41] here, but I drink and burgers
[00:22:45] why deprive myself of the pleasures of life, here
[00:22:48] I recommended not keeping industrial minced meat, because
[00:22:51] these blood clots, they all
[00:22:54] serve as a breeding ground for pathogenic bacteria, so
[00:22:58] it's better to transfer it to some airtight container, don't buy
[00:23:01] this brand. What are your most important
[00:23:04] products that are always present in your diet? I
[00:23:08] am in love with hummus, you understand, I'm a hummus
[00:23:10] lover.
[00:23:13] I see you have some, and I buy this
[00:23:16] dry chickpea, it's a whole story, I recommend you try
[00:23:20] this hummus made with your own hands, quickly, like
[00:23:23] this, oh, how beautiful, smell it, and I tell
[00:23:26] you, I'll bet with anyone from restaurants that prepare it, if they
[00:23:29] can make such hummus, well, I suggest
[00:23:33] we check then, do you have some secret ingredient? What are you talking about, now
[00:23:37] they'll try it and tell you, please, clean hands, don't worry, it smells good.
[00:23:41] Yes. Fresh hummus. I have plans
[00:23:45] to produce my own truffle hummus, there is no such thing in the world, it's a wonderful
[00:23:49] source of plant protein, excellent, and for
[00:23:52] intestinal motility, it's maximally useful, so much
[00:23:55] fiber there. Suddenly, friends,
[00:23:58] friends, friends, this is also what was bought by your friends,
[00:24:02] but, well, these are sweets, if you saw
[00:24:05] these friends, you would understand what I mean,
[00:24:08] everyone has the right to choose, right, here we
[00:24:12] have no choice but to throw away the orange thigh, because the shelf
[00:24:15] life of this has expired, we need to
[00:24:18] watch out. Pay attention to expiration dates
[00:24:22] 100%. I didn't find myself in a dumpster, and my
[00:24:25] stomach is not an urn to throw everything into. This is very
[00:24:29] carefully. Here's some beet, often used in
[00:24:32] the diet, very, very useful, this is very do you make beet hummus?
[00:24:36] I do, how do you know?
[00:24:39] Do you use cottage cheese in syrniki or raw? I make
[00:24:43] a mix, one banana, cottage cheese, cocoa and
[00:24:46] I add protein to it, this is on days when I go to the gym, for example.
[00:24:50] This is an investment in the body,
[00:29:34] departments, however, Russians, according to statistics, suddenly
[00:29:37] fell in love with white, which almost caught up with red in sales,
[00:29:41] and no, not because they started eating less meat, it's just that wine
[00:29:45] is losing its status as an accompaniment to a hearty dinner,
[00:29:49] today it's more often a light drink for an evening with snacks
[00:29:53] or a picnic, and for such events, white is
[00:29:56] just perfect, but it's just that some gourmets still
[00:30:00] believe that Russian white...
[00:30:02] is something like second-rate alcohol, to
[00:30:06] find out if there's any evidence for this theory or if it's
[00:30:09] a silly, cork-like myth, our reporter Katya Tikhaya
[00:30:13] went to a Russian wine production and
[00:30:15] found out how it's
[00:30:17] made.
[00:30:22] This is the most wine-producing region of the country, it is in Kuban that
[00:30:26] almost half of all Russian grapes are grown,
[00:30:28] ideal climate for grapes -
[00:30:32] cool summer, warm winter, and a light sea breeze wouldn't hurt,
[00:30:35] but most importantly, the
[00:30:39] soil must be sufficiently
[00:30:41] dry.
[00:30:46] While other plants wither in rocky soil without rain,
[00:30:50] grapes grow lushly and spread. Grape growers are not
[00:30:53] happy about a rainy summer, because firstly, the harvest can be
[00:30:57] excessive due to excessive moisture, and secondly, it.