The study was aimed to conduct the hygienic assessment of nutrition lipid profile of schoolchildren: age and ethnical issues. There was stated that the examined diets correspond to the standard requirements, but 12% of children consume more fats than physiological optimum allows. The highest intake of essential PUFA was characteristic for children nourished by the Moldavian and Gagauzian national culinary traditions, whereas the children nourished by the Ukrainian culinary tradition had the relative deficiency of eicosopentaenoic, docosahexaenoic, arachidonic and γ-linolenic acids. There was characteristic for the daily diets of children from the all ethnic group that the ratio between ω-6 and ω-3 PUFA was increased up to 17:1 — 82:1.
