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The countries of the Eastern Europe Region (EER), including Belarus, Russia, North Caucasus Region, Tatarstan, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, have common nutrition and health issues shaped by the long “common living” history under the Soviet Union umbrella and unique shaped by their national way of developments.

Today, food is studied as more than a just simple consumer item, but rather to approach more significant issues such as the interaction between globalization and national cuisines (Wilk, 2002). Food is not only the source for life but also has a much deeper meaning, especially in regard to the ethnic aspect of food processing and cooking styles. By studying different ethnical groups' cuisines, we can follow traditions and other aspects of national development. We may also con

Dendritic cells are considered as the main coordinators of both mucosal and systemic immune responses, thus playing a determining role in shaping the outcome of effector cell responses.

The aim of our study was to investigate the gut microbiota in patients with noncommunicable dis- eases associated with chronic inflammation, namely obesity, type 2 diabetes, atherosclerosis, and cardio- vascular disease as well as to find out potential ability of edible plants fruits extracts to inhibit the growth of selected conditionally pathogenic microorganisms.