scholarly journals Traffic lights and food choice: A choice experiment examining the relationship between nutritional food labels and price

Food Policy ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelvin Balcombe ◽  
Iain Fraser ◽  
Salvatore Di Falco
Keyword(s):  
Food Choice ◽  
Choice Experiment ◽  
Food Labels ◽  
Traffic Lights ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Food Neophobia among Adults: Differences in Dietary Patterns, Food Choice Motives, and Food Labels Reading in Poles

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 1590
Author(s):  
Marzena Jezewska-Zychowicz ◽  
Marta Plichta ◽  
Małgorzata Ewa Drywień ◽  
Jadwiga Hamulka
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Patterns ◽  
Food Choice ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Food Labels ◽  
Food Label ◽  
Dietary Recommendations ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Food Neophobia ◽  
Food Choice Motives ◽  
The Relationship

Food neophobia (FN) is associated with reduced quality of diet in adults; thus, the understanding of the relationship between FN and food consumption in more depth appears to be a key issue. The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between food neophobia, dietary patterns, food choice motives, and food label reading in the group of adults. Data were collected using the computer-assisted personal interviewing technique (CAPI). A cross-sectional quantitative survey was carried out in November–December 2017 in a sample of 1017 Polish adults. The questionnaire used in the study included the Food Neophobia Scale (FNS), the Beliefs and Eating Habits Questionnaire (KomPAN), and questions regarding food choice motives, reading food labels, and sociodemographic characteristics. The food neophobics were older, had a lower level of education, and had higher BMI compared to others. Compared to others, among the food neophobics, there were more people who often consumed vegetables, fruit, meat, and meat products and who rarely consumed functional and convenience food, sweets, and sweetened beverages. When choosing food, more food neophobics chose healthy and tasteless food products, while more food neophilics chose unhealthy and tasty products. More food neophobics declared not reading price and shelf-life information on food labels compared to the other two groups. Although food neophobia may make adaptation to dietary recommendations difficult, health-promoting features of the diet were observed within the food neophobics. Actions focusing on food choice motives may help even more to limit the effects of food neophobia in adults. Further research is recommended to confirm the observed relationships under different sociocultural conditions.

Trans Fat Information on Food Labels: Consumer Use and Interpretation

2010 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonya Ellis ◽  
N. Theresa Glanville
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Location ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Grocery Stores ◽  
Grocery Shopping ◽  
Fat Intake ◽  
Food Labels ◽  
Trans Fat ◽  
Food Label ◽  
Nutrition Facts Panel ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose: Consumers’ use and interpretation of trans fat information on food labels were explored. Methods: Consumers completed an interviewer-administered questionnaire in one of three grocery stores selected purposively to represent geographical location. Data analysis involved examining the relationship of age, gender, grocery shopping habits, household size, and source of nutrition information with awareness, use, and interpretation of trans fat information. Results: Ninety-eight percent (n=239) of participants were aware of trans fat, and most knew of the relationship between trans fat intake and cardiovascular disease. Although the majority of shoppers were aware of the “0 trans fat” nutrition claim on food packages (95%), they were more likely to use the Nutrition Facts panel (60%) to reduce trans fat intake. Men and consumers under age 40 were least likely to be aware of food label information. While most consumers (75%) correctly interpreted the “0 trans fat” nutrition claim and thought foods with this claim could be healthy choices (64%), only 51% purchased these foods to reduce trans fat intake. Conclusions: Nutrition professionals should target messages to reduce trans fat intake at men and consumers under age 40. While general knowledge was good, further education is required to help consumers interpret trans fat information.

Ethics of Food Production and Consumption

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michiel Korthals
Keyword(s):  
Food Choice ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Food Product ◽  
Food Ethics ◽  
Natural Food ◽  
Ethical Problems ◽  
Eating Meat ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Relationship

Food production and consumption involves ethics, as reflected in prohibitions, refutations, exhortations, recommendations, and even less explicit ethical notions such as whether a certain food product is natural. Food ethics has emerged as an important academic discipline and a branch of philosophy whose underlying goal is to define and elucidate food ethical problems. This article explores the ethics of food production and food consumption. It first presents a historical overview of food and the evolving gap between food production and consumption before discussing a number of quite pressing social concerns associated with the present-day food production system. It then considers concepts and approaches, including agrarianism and pluralism, in the context of two urgent food ethical problems: malnutrition and producing and eating meat. The article also examines food choice, the relationship between food ethics and politics, and the task of food ethics before concluding with a discussion of the future of food and food ethics.

Art Beyond Art’s Sake: The Influence of Artistic Cues on Prosocial Choice

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-40
Author(s):  
Dooiee Kim ◽  
Sang-Hoon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Choice Experiment ◽  
Psychological Distance ◽  
Construal Level Theory ◽  
Construal Level ◽  
The Relationship

In this study, we examined whether exposure to art can promote an abstract mindset. Specifically, based on construal level theory, we tested the relationship between artistic cues and an abstract mindset, and how this mindset could in turn impact prosocial choice. Experiment 1 ( N = 54) revealed that artistic cues lead participants to consider more abstract features than concrete features. In Experiment 2 ( N = 83), it was shown that the effect of artistic cues on an abstract mindset is mediated by psychological distance. In addition, this abstract mindset was shown to mediate the link between artistic cues and prosocial choice. The findings of this study highlight the mechanisms that extend the effects of art beyond preference to choice and thought.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Bodyweight Status and Weight Perception Explains Differences in Calories Ordered in a Food Choice Exercise

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1794
Author(s):  
Jean-Claude Mbarushimana ◽  
Christopher R. Gustafson ◽  
Henriette Gitungwa ◽  
Eliana Zeballos
Keyword(s):  
Food Choice ◽  
Weight Status ◽  
Weight Perception ◽  
Relative Weight ◽  
Choice Task ◽  
Dieting Behavior ◽  
Measured Weight ◽  
Perceived Weight ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Understanding food choice is critical to be able to address the rise in obesity rates around the globe. In this paper, we examine the relationship between measured (BMI, using self-reported height and weight) and perceived weight status with the number of calories ordered in a controlled online food choice exercise. A total of 1044 participants completed an online food choice exercise in which they selected ingredients for a sandwich from five categories: meat/protein, cheese, spread/dressing, bread, and vegetables. We examine the number of calories ordered by participants and use linear regression to study the relationship of BMI category relative to self-reported perceived weight status with calories ordered. As a comparison to previous literature, we also examine the relationship between relative weight status and self-reported dieting behavior using logistic regression. We find that participants perceiving themselves to have a higher BMI than their BMI calculated using height and weight ordered significantly fewer calories and were more likely to report dieting than participants who perceived themselves to have a lower BMI than their calculated BMI. The relationship between perceived weight status and measured weight status explains behavior in a food choice task. Understanding how people perceive their weight may help design effective health messages.

Driving Characteristics of Older Drivers and Their Relationship to the Useful Field of View Test

Gerontology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tania Dukic Willstrand ◽  
Thomas Broberg ◽  
Helena Selander
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Older Drivers ◽  
Field Of View ◽  
Fitness To Drive ◽  
Manual Gearbox ◽  
Traffic Lights ◽  
Useful Field Of View ◽  
Valuable Complement ◽  
The Relationship

Background: To maintain the mobility of older people in later life, it is essential to sustain their autonomy; however, driving is a complex task, requiring a large range of visual, psychomotor and cognitive abilities. Subsequently, a key issue is to measure and evaluate the fitness to drive of older drivers. Several methods have been proposed, among them the useful field of view (UFOV) test. Objective: The present study aimed to identify driving characteristics in older drivers and the relationship between the UFOV test and the on-road driving results. Method: A total of 80 drivers aged 70 years or older performed both the UFOV test and the on-road driving assessment. The ‘B On-Road' (Behaviour On-Road) protocol was used for the fitness-to-drive assessment. Results: ‘Driving too fast' was the item reported most often during the on-road assessment, followed by problems with the manual gearbox and ‘attention to signs, road lines and traffic lights'. Overall, the results showed that the older the driver, the more errors were reported during the on-road driving assessment, as well as the slower the performance on the UFOV test. A significant relationship between the total number of on-road errors, as measured by the B On-Road protocol, and the UFOV 3, which stresses the capacity of selective attention, was found. Conclusion: The recommendation is still to use on-road driving assessment to fully assess fitness to drive for older drivers whose ability to drive requires assessment. However, to supplement this, the UFOV test, in particular the UFOV 3, is a valuable complement in selecting those drivers requiring to be assessed.

scholarly journals Decomposing the Value of Food Labels on Chicken

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Zachary T. Neuhofer ◽  
Jayson L. Lusk
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Choice Experiment ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Health Perceptions ◽  
Food Labels ◽  
Best Worst Scaling ◽  
Consumer Choices ◽  
Information Treatment ◽  
Positive Effect

Abstract This study explores the effects of consumers’ beliefs about labels on chicken. We elicit beliefs associated with seven different labels. By varying the presence/absence of labels in a choice experiment, we are able to determine the effects of labels on consumer choices and decompose the value of labels into beliefs and base utility. Health perceptions have the largest positive effect, and impacts of animal welfare vary by information treatment. We explore the convergent validity of our approach by comparing individual’s beliefs to responses to a best-worst scaling question, which were weakly correlated, suggesting the two approaches are measuring different constructs.

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