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Functional foods in Europe: consumer research, market experiences and regulatory aspects
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The regulatory aspects, the results of consumer research and the marketing strategies regarding the use of health claims for functional foods in Europe, and the lack of correspondence between the new regulation and the Marketing experiences and research as regard consumer reactions to health claims are reviewed.Abstract:
The fact that the European markets for functional foods generally are less developed, compared to the US and the Japanese markets, has often been attributed to a restrictive and inconsistent health claim legislation in and between the European countries. With the European Parliament's second reading of the main principles of the harmonized regulation COM/2003/0424, this situation is about to change. This article reviews the regulatory aspects, the results of consumer research and the marketing strategies regarding the use of health claims for functional foods in Europe, and it comments on the lack of correspondence between the new regulation and the marketing experiences and research as regard consumer reactions to health claims.read more
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Market and marketing of functional food in Europe
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The perceived healthiness of functional foods. A conjoint study of Danish, Finnish and American consumers' perception of functional foods
TL;DR: In this paper, Danish, Finnish and American consumers' perceptions of the healthiness of functional foods are explained by cultural values pertaining to man's manipulation of nature, whereas the use of different health claims, processing methods, enrichments, product types, and especially the interactions between the two latter, are important determinants of consumers' perception of healthiness.
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Consumers’ changing attitudes towards functional foods
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TL;DR: The best predictors for willingness to use functional foods were the perceived reward and the necessity for such foods, however, the dimensions predict reported behaviour differently depending on the target product.
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Consumer responses to an off-flavor in juice in the presence of specific health claims
TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that the consumption of a functional food will be inversely related to the severity of off-flavor and to the required frequency and duration of consumption.