Boiled sausage is more popular with Russians than smoked sausage

In the first ten months of the year, the country produced about 2.1 million tons of meat and poultry sausages, which is 2.1 percent more than in the same period in 2023. About one million tons (48 percent) were produced in the Central Federal District, a fifth in the Volga Region, and nine percent in the Northwestern regions. Most of all, Russians love cooked sausages, frankfurters, small sausages, and shpikachki. Such products were produced in the amount of about 1.4 million tons (two percent more than a year earlier). Half of this was provided by meat-packing plants in Central Russia. The leader, the Vladimir Region, accounted for 18 percent of the cooked sausage market. In second place in popularity is smoked sausage. In 10 months, Russia produced just under 600 thousand tons of this type of product. The Central Federal District is also ahead of everyone else, with Moscow holding the absolute lead. Fried sausage rounds out the top 3. In absolute terms, its production is still ...