British Food Journal: Volume 123 Issue 8

Socioeconomic assessment of diet on health and quality of life

Mariantonietta Fiore, Roberto Leonardo Rana, Alessia Spada, Nina Drejerska

Does organic means health for consumers? Selected issues of organic food market

Nina Drejerska, Wioleta Sobczak, Jarosław Gołębiewski, Weronika Aniela Gierula

The purpose of this paper is to describe organic food supply and demand from the perspective of evolutionary economics. Furthermore, identification of motives of organic food…

Impact of organic and “protected designation of origin” labels in the perception of olive oil sensory quality

Sara Spognardi, Domenico Vistocco, Lucio Cappelli, Patrizia Papetti

Investigate the behaviour and the habits of the consumers from central-southern Italy in relation to extra olive oil consumption, focussing on the impact of protected designation…

Socio-demographic influences on various consumer food safety indices: an empirical study of ethnic Goan pork sausage consumers

Solomon Rajkumar, Renuka Nayar, Kavitha Rajagopal, Eaknath B. Chakurkar, Vismitha Shree Venkatesh, Prejit Nambiar, Venkatesh Paramesh

The purpose of this paper is to assess food safety knowledge, choice behavior and health hazard concerns of ethnic Goan pork sausage consumers through various consumer food safety…

Young consumers' perception of food safety and their trust in official food control agencies

Justyna Franc-Dąbrowska, Irena Ozimek, Iwona Pomianek, Joanna Rakowska

The purpose of the research was to investigate how young consumers perceive food safety and if they trust that official food control agencies or other actors of food supply chains…

Clustering Generation Z university students based on daily fruit and vegetable consumption: empirical research in an emerging market

Cristina Bianca Pocol, Valentina Marinescu, Dan-Cristian Dabija, Antonio Amuza

The present paper explores Generation Z university students' clusters based on the consumption of daily fruits and vegetables in an emerging market economy, indicating young…

Local food communities: exploring health-related adaptivity and self-management practices

Ilona Liliána Birtalan, Ágnes Neulinger, György Bárdos, Adrien Rigó, József Rácz, Szilvia Boros

While many characteristics of food consumption have been examined, little attention has been given to the health potential of consuming from local food communities. Local food…

Dynamic conceptual framework to investigate adoption of healthy diet through agent-based modelling

Jamal Rahmani, Jalaledin Mirzay Razaz, Naser Kalantari, Leandro M.T. Garcia, Seyed Peyman Shariatpanahi, Hiba Bawadi, Jacqueline Y. Thompson, Paul M. Ryan, Heitor O. Santos, Arezoo Haghighian Roudsari

The purpose of this research is to develop a dynamic conceptual framework depicting factors related to the adoption of a healthy diet, which will underpin the development of an…

The effect of education on fruit and vegetable purchase disparities in Chile

Andres Silva, David Magana-Lemus, Daniela Godoy

The objective of this article is to analyze fruit and vegetable (FV) purchasing decisions between 2011–12 and 2016–17 in Chile, and FV purchases by level of education in this…

A vegetarian educator in a meat obsessed country

Cassandra Sturgeon Delia

Food consumption is a result of a choice that is influenced by economic status, society, culture, psychosomatic elements (Bisogni et al., 2002) and religious factors (Dewan, 2017…

The effects of advertisements on consumer choices and health: a content analysis of health claims in Italian magazines

Angela Tarabella, Andrea Apicella, Sara Tessitore, Maria Francesca Romano

The purpose of this research is to trace the evolution of the claims used for advertising food products in Italian magazines, by analysing the content and structure of the claims…

Consumer awareness and willingness to purchase probiotic food and beverage products: a study of Sonipat district, Haryana

Sapna Arora, Krishna Prabha, Vijay Singh Sharanagat, Vijendra Mishra

In a developing country like India, consumers are shifting from high-energy diet to balanced nutritional diet, which enhances the metabolic, physiological, functional and health…

Differences in game consumption patterns between North and South China

Lei Wei, Yiting (Demi) Hao, Hong Zhu, Jun (Justin) Li

The 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has affected many countries around the world. Due to the debate on the source of the outbreak, wildlife meat consumption has gained…

Grape residue flour as an antioxidant and fiber source in beef meatballs

Larissa Christine Tuffi, Daniel Angelo Longhi, Jéssica Carvalho Hernandes, Paulo Cézar Gregório, Carlos Eduardo Rocha Garcia

This study aimed at the addition of grape residue flours in beef meatballs to evaluate their behavior on physic-chemical and sensory properties. Furthermore, it is intended to…

Derivatized volatile organic compound characterization of Friulano wine from Collio (Italy–Slovenia) by HS-SPME-GC-MS and discrimination from other varieties by chemometrics

Sabina Licen, Elija Muzic, Sara Briguglio, Arianna Tolloi, Pierluigi Barbieri, Pasquale Giungato

Methods to assess the authenticity and traceability of wines have been extensively studied as enhancers of food quality, allowing producers to obtain market recognition and…

Preliminary survey of 226Ra, 232Th and 40K activity level and their cancer risk in some foodstuff, Sudan

Hajo Idriss, Haitham M Elhassan

The purpose of this paper is to buildup baseline data for ²²⁶Ra, ²³²Th and ⁴⁰K levels in different food samples and computes their cancer risk (CR).

The longitudinal association between soybean and non-soybean legumes intakes and risk of cardiovascular disease: Isfahan cohort study

Fatemeh Nouri, Fahimeh Haghighatdoost, Noushin Mohammadifard, Marjan Mansourian, Masoumeh Sadeghi, Hamidreza Roohafza, Azam Khani, Nizal Sarrafzadegan

The associations between legume consumption and cardiovascular events (CVEs) have extensively been studied. However, there are few studies that considered longitudinal association…

Functional food consumption among older consumers in Malaysia: a Health Belief Model perspective

Flaviana Ivy Febian, Sharifah Nurafizah Syed Annuar, Mumtaz Ali Memon

Functional foods and their association with health benefits and disease risk reduction open a promising possibility for consumers to pursue a healthier lifestyle and extend their…

Modified atmosphere packaging for milk cake: assessment of ideal gas composition for extending shelf life

Rekha Chawla, S. Sivakumar, Santosh Kumar Mishra, Harsimran Kaur, Rahul Kumar Anurag

Milk cake is a well-renowned khoa-based dairy product in India, produced either from the buffalo milk or using a specific danedar variety of khoa. Under ambient conditions…

Food waste measurement toward a fair, healthy and environmental-friendly food system: a critical review

Vera Amicarelli, Christian Bux

Given the importance of food waste in the economic, social, health and environmental dimensions, the purpose of this work is to detect, through a systematic and configurative…

Public food procurement for Italian schools: results from analytical and content analyses

Fiorella Pia Salvatore, Simone Fanelli, Gianluca Lanza, Michele Milone

The study objective was to understand if uniformity of approach exists in evaluation methods of public food tender for schools at national and local level. This purpose was…