[On classification of medicinal diets]

The article touches upon the questions of classification of medicinal diets. The major attention is given the system of diets, made on the basis of "numer" diets first proposed by M. Pevzner. The system is based on the daily food sets for patients, who are grouped into profile units of hospitals on nosologic principle. In the author's opinion, this system allows to use in diets more widely and differently of foods, from the sets, which envisages big effectiviness of dietary nutrition at its high organoliptic quality.