Showing papers in "Food Quality and Preference in 2021"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the factors that facilitate or inhibit Japanese consumers' buying behavior toward organic food and found that health consciousness is a stimulus that has a positive impact on facilitators (natural content, nutritional content, and ecological welfare).

TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual model based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB) was developed to explore the factors that influence consumer purchase intention and behavior for organic vegetables in Brazil.

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey was conducted to evaluate the acceptability of 20 common yogurt ingredients within the categories of sugars, stabilizers/thickening agents, preservatives, and coloring agents.

TL;DR: Investigating whether individuals and families in the UK have changed their food choice motivations over lockdown and identifying sub-groups in particular need of support in the event of future lockdowns indicated that the sample placed more importance on health, weight control and mood when choosing their food after lockdown than they had before.

TL;DR: All constructs including attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control were found to have made a significant contribution to the prediction of intention to purchase Yak-sun food among Korean consumers.

TL;DR: Evaluating the changes in eating behaviours of the adult population across 16 European countries due to the COVID-19 confinement found a significantly higher adherence to the MedDiet during the confinement was observed across all countries.

TL;DR: Public willingness to reduce meat consumption in Denmark is examined, and the drivers and barriers involved include food neophobia, incongruence with meat identity, habitual behavior and practical difficulties are examined.

TL;DR: In this paper, a case study using Yelp restaurant review data on what affects restaurant customers' sentiment responses to dining out was presented, where a sentiment-analysis method was used to extract and generate sentiment indices from 175,879 text-based Yelp restaurant reviews.

TL;DR: In this article, an item-by-use appropriateness survey was conducted in the Netherlands to evaluate whether the use of meat substitutes fit in the same usage situations as meat products do.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated consumers' opinions of pea and algae burgers compared to the traditional beef burger in terms of taste, health, and environmental friendliness, and explored the influence of factors such as meat commitment, food neophobia, and the attitude towards vegetarians and vegans.

TL;DR: This review shows the complexity of the variables that determine the level of FN in humans and suggest that further research is still needed, as FN is a key variable in evaluating the potential success of food production strategies focused on the development of new foods or novel food production techniques.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Covid-19 pandemic was viewed as a potential catalytic disruption with the potential to induce positive behavior change and the contribution of psychographic variables in differentiating between groups of people who did / did not make positive changes once again show their importance in uncovering and explaining the complex factors that motivate food-related consumer behavior.

TL;DR: Compared to unrestricted omnivores and meat avoiders, meat reducers are unique with respect to their meat consumption behaviours; beliefs regarding the nutritional adequacy and food choice adequacy of meat-free diets; and the relative importance they place on egoistic food choice factors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study was carried out with more than 3600 consumers in 6 countries (Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Spain and USA). Participants were asked questions organized in two main topics: general sustainability and willingness to pay on different food categories.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between emotional, social, and cognitive factors and food waste reduction behavior, as conceptualized using the 3Rs (reuse, reduce, and recycle).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the significant factors that drive consumers' willingness to adopt a more plant-based diet, in both an Asian developing country (China) and a Western developed country (New Zealand), on the basis of three theories: meat attachment factors, the theory of planned behaviour and food choice motives.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive and validated scale to measure sustainability motives within the full range of food choice motives could contribute to this understanding, especially as sustainability is a multi-faceted concept in which the different aspects can sometimes be conflicting.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied consumers' preferences after a blind tasting, after a tasting in the presence of the packaging, and after the dissemination of two stages of information, and concluded that the impact of additional information depends on the information disseminated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the Food Related Lifestyle instrument that has been applied in the food arena for many years as a "stepping stone" to develop a contemporary, targeted and smaller version of the food related lifestyle instrument, still following the original theoretical framework.

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic literature review was conducted in online databases, using a fixed search term and 2004-2019 as timespan, to support the commercialization of optimal food by answering two questions: 1) which barriers prevent consumers from buying optimal food and 2) How retailers address these barriers?

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed a 2x2 experimental design with information treatments varying by valence and complexity to explore if information provision influenced purchasing evaluations by way of attitudes, finding that implicit and explicit attitudes serially mediated the relationship between information provision and purchasing evaluations, thereby affecting the overall effectiveness of information.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of hunger on consumers' visual attention during a food choice task, and the role of time orientation (i.e., present and future orientation) in this interplay was investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, two studies were conducted in three countries with a different degree of confinement: Mexico (flexible), Spain (strict), and Peru (hard) to test the hypothesis that this new dynamic of consumption could create a situation of fear that changes food choice.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed two additional constructs: warm glow and self-expressive benefits which could further drive consumer attitude and purchase intentions in the context of organic food consumption.

TL;DR: Results from the present work suggest the need to develop stricter labelling regulations for ultra-processed products with high content of nutrients associated with NCDs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined consumer acceptance of pesticide use in conventional and organic agriculture and agri-biotech applications as crop-protection measures and found that consumers were most willing to accept gene transfers as a protection measure, provided the gene came from a wild variety of the same species as the cultivated plant.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the influence of socio-environmental attributes on the purchase intention of and the willingness to pay for beef, based on data from Brazilian consumers, using a discrete choice analysis model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the factors shaping consumer attitude towards local food and brand love for local food, along with contextual variables with respect to local food consumption, and found that self-identity is associated with attitude toward local food.

TL;DR: The Eurobarometer (European Union, 2018a) surveyed 27,732 EU residents including a specific module to analyse the fishery and aquaculture EU market, and the dataset is used to estimate Ordered Probit models using effects coding and their marginal effects to identify the main determinants of the frequency of FAPs at-home consumption.