scholarly journals Show Me More! The Influence of Visibility on Sustainable Food Choices

Foods ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicky Coucke ◽  
Iris Vermeir ◽  
Hendrik Slabbinck ◽  
Anneleen Van Kerckhove
Keyword(s):  
Visual Cues ◽  
Meat Products ◽  
Purchase Behavior ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Poultry Products ◽  
Display Area ◽  
Store Environment ◽  
Post Hoc

Visual cues are omnipresent in an in-store environment and can enhance the visibility of a product. By using these visual cues, policy makers can design a choice environment to nudge consumers towards more sustainable consumer behavior. In this study, we use a combined nudge of display area size and quantity of displayed products to nudge consumers towards more sustainable meat choices. We performed a field experiment of four weeks in a butchery, located in a supermarket. The size of the display area and quantity of displayed poultry products, serving as the nudging intervention, were increased, whereas these were decreased for less sustainable meat products. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of our nudging intervention, we also collected data from a control store and performed a pre-and post-intervention measurement. We kept records of the sales data of the sold meat (amount of weight & revenue). When conducting a three-way ANOVA and post hoc contrast tests, we found that the sales of poultry increased during the nudging intervention, but did not decrease for less sustainable meat products. When removing the nudge again, the sales of poultry decreased again significantly in the experimental store. Changing the size of display area and the amount of products displayed in this display area created a shift in the consumers’ purchase behavior of meat.

scholarly journals Exploring Sustainable Food Choices Factors and Purchasing Behavior in the Sustainable Development Goals Era in Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7397
Author(s):  
Isabel Blanco-Penedo ◽  
Javier García-Gudiño ◽  
Elena Angón ◽  
José Manuel Perea ◽  
Alfredo J. Escribano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Purchase Behavior ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Region Of Residence ◽  
And Gender

The aim of the present study was (1) to investigate what consumers include within the concept of food sustainability and its link with sustainable consumption, by identifying meaningful consumer typologies from the concept of food sustainability and food choice factors framed by SDG 12, and (2) to know how different farm systems attributes affecting purchase behavior are associated with such typologies. Consumers from two Spanish regions (n = 403) answered a paper questionnaire to know their degree of knowledge of sustainability, and beliefs, behavior, attitudes and preferences towards food sustainability, and the importance given to product characteristics and shopping practices. A principal component analysis was conducted to identify groups with similar answers, to average some of the questions before the final analysis of variance, which includes demographic classes as fixed effects. A cluster analysis using the most representative questions identified two clusters. cluster 1 (68.4%) responded to more sustainability-related attributes, and cluster 2 (31.5%) presented a less-expanded concept of sustainability. The origin of the product and quality certification (local, organic) was important for food purchase practices. The place of residence and gender differences of the consumers were the most influential factors. In the conjoint study, regarding the purchase of Iberian pork, cluster 1 remained unwilling to sacrifice outdoor systems and local breed at the expense of the price, in the case of the Iberian pig production. The most important demographic differentiator was the region of residence of the consumer. In conclusion, consumers are not aware of the wider aspects included in the sustainability concept. Moreover, the concept of sustainability elicits different meanings to the segments of the consumers identified.

scholarly journals Improving appropriateness of oxygen saturation monitoring in paediatric patients with acute respiratory illness: a QI initiative

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (suppl_1) ◽  
pp. e15-e15
Author(s):  
Brigitte Parisien ◽  
Daryl Cheng ◽  
Maria Marano ◽  
Julie Johnstone ◽  
Nicole Carmichael ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Saturation ◽  
Pulse Oximetry ◽  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Respiratory Illness ◽  
Appropriate Use ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Prolonged Length ◽  
Paediatric Patients

Abstract BACKGROUND Oxygen saturation monitoring (OSM) is a key aspect of clinical care in paediatric patients with acute respiratory disease. It is commonplace in the assessment of children with bronchiolitis, asthma and pneumonia and serves as a proxy for illness severity. However, there is a paucity of standardized guidelines around appropriate pulse oximetry and OSM use in these patients. Some preliminary evidence shows that intermittent pulse oximetry is as safe as continuous oximetry monitoring in children with bronchiolitis. Furthermore, inappropriate OSM may lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatment of mild hypoxia with no demonstrable clinical improvement and therefore contribute to prolonged length of stay. OBJECTIVES As part of The Choosing Wisely campaign, our aim is to increase the appropriate use of OSM in paediatric inpatients with asthma, bronchiolitis or pneumonia in our center to 90% by April 2018. DESIGN/METHODS Appropriate monitoring is defined as intermittent OSM when a patient is off oxygen for >2 hours and continuous OSM whilst the patient is receiving supplemental oxygen. A 4 week pre-intervention baseline chart review showed 62% (23/37) had appropriate OSM. Series of interventions along the hierarchy of effectiveness were then chosen to improve the main outcome measure: • Educational sessions oriented at medical and nursing staff were provided to guide evidence-based practice and to reinforce the use of specific orders around OSM; • Visual cues were used in strategic locations to remind medical staff of appropriate OSM and to prompt discussion during ward rounds; • Weekly reminders and performance updates were displayed and electronically circulated to medical and nursing staff. Post-intervention data collection occurred via convenience sampling by project leaders from December 2017 to April 2018. A PDSA cycle approach was used to modify interventions. RESULTS OSM appropriateness increased to 78% (56/72) in the first 4 weeks post-initial interventions. There were no negative impacts on balancing measures. We anticipate an ongoing graded increase in appropriateness across the study period triggered by collective staff awareness and synergistic interventions. CONCLUSION This QI initiative will improve the appropriate use of OSM in patients admitted for bronchiolitis, pneumonia or asthma at our paediatric tertiary hospital without increasing the number of patient safety events or admissions to the intensive care unit. Further interventions are planned to ensure greater uptake and sustainability.

scholarly journals Validating an Academic Group Tutorial Discussion Speaking Test

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Crosthwaite ◽  
Simon Boynton ◽  
Sam Cole
Keyword(s):  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Intraclass Correlation ◽  
Active Listening ◽  
Speaking Test ◽  
Group Settings ◽  
Threats To Validity ◽  
Freshmen Students ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
Academic Group

<p>This study attempts to validate an academic group tutorial discussion speaking test for undergraduate freshmen students taking initial EAP training at a university in Hong Kong in terms of task, rater and criterion validity. Three quantitative measures (Cronbach’s Alpha, Intraclass Correlation Coefficient, and Exploratory Factor Analysis) are used to assess validity of rater scores for the test using a rubric with considerations for assessment of academic stance presentation, inter-candidate interaction, and individual language proficiency. These results are triangulated with post-hoc interview data from the raters regarding the difficulties they face assessing individual proficiency and group interaction over time. The results suggest that current provisions of the rubric in dealing with the assessment of interaction in group settings (namely visual cues such as “active listening” as well as provisions for interruptions in the form of “domination”) are problematic, and that raters are unable to separate the grading of academic stance from the grading of language concerns. We also note affective and cognitive difficulties involved with assessing extended periods of interactional discourse including student talking time (or lack of it), the group dynamic, and raters” personal beliefs and practice as threats to validity that the statistical measurements were unable to capture. A new sample rubric and further suggestions for improving the validity of group tutorial assessments are provided.</p>

scholarly journals CRICKET POWDER (ACHETA DOMESTICA) AS FOOD ADDITIVE FOR PROCESSING OF DRY-FERMENTED POLTURY BARS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Desislava Borislavova Vlahova-Vangelova ◽  
Desislav Balev ◽  
Nikolay Delchev Kolev ◽  
Dilyana Gradinarska ◽  
Stefan Dragoev
Keyword(s):  
Meat Products ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Sensory Properties ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Poultry Products ◽  
A Value ◽  
Plastic Strength ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Acheta Domestica ◽  
The Impact

In the recent years crickets, as well as cricket powder (CP) are interesting food ingredients in the European market. Some benefits of CP are high content of quality proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals and little environmental footprint. The aim of this work is to explore the impact of CP additive (2% and 4%) on the color characteristics, technological and sensory properties of dry-fermented poultry bars. The use of CP as meat additive significantly decrease L* and a* value of the product. Structural strength, plastic strength and pH were significantly increased (p˂0.05) in CP enriched raw and dry-fermented poultry bars. aW and moisture content in the final CP supplemented poultry products increased (p˂0.05). The incorporation of 2% CP had slight impact on sensory properties of final product and can be successfully used for processing of value added meat products. CP addition up to 4% had negative effect on the color, sensory properties, structural and plastic strength on the filling mass and dry-fermented meat bars.

scholarly journals Consumer preferences for meat products blended with plant-based 1 proteins in Germany

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriano Profeta ◽  
Marie Baune
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Meat Product ◽  
Meat Products ◽  
Meat Consumption ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Consumption Behaviour ◽  
Meat Substitute ◽  
Daily Diet ◽  
Social Environmental

High levels of meat consumption are increasingly being criticised for ethical, environmental, andsocial reasons. Plant-based meat substitutes have been identified as healthy sources of proteinin comparison to meat. This alternative o?ers several social, environmental and health benefitsand may play a role in reducing meat consumption. However, there has been a lack of researchon how specific meat substitute attributes can influence consumers to replace or partially replacemeat in their diets.Research demonstrates that in many countries consumers are highly attached to meat.They considerit as an essential and integral element of their daily diet. For these consumers which arenot interested in vegan or vegetarian alternatives to meat, so-called meathybrids could be a lowthresholdoption for a more sustainable food consumption behaviour. In meathybrids only afraction of the meat product (e.g. 20% to 50%) is replaced with plant-based proteins.In this paper, the results of an online survey with 500 German consumers are presented with focuson preferences and attitudes relating to meathyrids. The results show that more than fifty percentof consumers substitute meat at least occasionally. Thus, about half of the respondents reveal aneligible consumption behaviour in respect to sustainability and healthiness to a certain degree.Concerning the determinants of choosing either meathybrid or meat it becomes evident that thehighest e?ect is exerted by the health perception. The healthier meathybrids are perceived, thehigher is the choice probability. Thus, this egoistic motive seems to outperform altruistic motiveslike animal welfare or environmental concerns when it comes to choice for this new productcategory

Child Well-being Across the Life Course: What Do We Know, What Should We Know?

2021 ◽  
pp. 165-192
Author(s):  
Gary Pollock ◽  
Haridhan Goswami ◽  
Aleksandra Szymczyk
Keyword(s):  
Birth Cohort ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Evidence For Policy ◽  
Post Hoc

Child well-being has an explicit connection with UN Sustainable Development Goals. Progress in tackling these goals require robust evidence, such as can be provided by high quality survey data. Birth cohort surveys are an important source of evidence for policy makers seeking to protect and enhance the lives of children as they grow up. Until now such surveys have been developed independently and in order to compare data in different countries there are many challenges in post-hoc data harmonisation. The merits of collecting national longitudinal data are widely recognised, and yet the current studies are not easily comparable as they contain different questions and are conducted at different times and on different age groups. It is, therefore, time for an input harmonised comparative birth cohort survey. The European Cohort Development Project has been developing the design and business case for such a survey since 2018. This survey will allow a direct comparison of the well-being of children as they grow up across Europe in different national contexts. In the future, researchers the world over will be able to learn from the lived experiences of children and young people as they grow up in a diverse range of European countries.

Future plant solutions by interfering RNA and key messages for communication and dissemination.

2021 ◽  
pp. 167-173
Author(s):  
Hilde-Gunn Opsahl-Sorteberg
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Plant Breeding ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Crop Varieties ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Many ◽  
Interfering Rna

Abstract Communication is an increasing prerequisite to justify academic existence and value, and for project funding of all kinds to show relevance and value, including the future of European networks like COST Actions. Academia is slowly adapting to this expectation and learning the profession of communication. Language and vocabulary are key issues in communication, and particularly to reach the many important non-scientific audiences. Therefore, this chapter starts with a description of some new plant breeding technologies relevant for communicating, in general terms, the science behind plant improvement. This is followed by selected examples of the application of these techniques to improve current and future crop varieties. Finally, key messages gathered from the European iPLANTA project for policy makers, non-specialists and specially interested citizens are communicated. This is to show a wider audience how RNAi can contribute to sustainable food solutions and food security with minimal environmental impacts.

scholarly journals Towards More Sustainable Meat Products: Extenders as a Way of Reducing Meat Content

Foods ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1044 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Pintado ◽  
Gonzalo Delgado-Pando
Keyword(s):  
Food Industry ◽  
Meat Products ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
General Point ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Meat Content ◽  
High Quality Protein ◽  
Interesting Approach ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
By Products

The low efficiency of animal protein (meat products) production is one of the main concerns for sustainable food production. However, meat provides high-quality protein among other compounds such as minerals or vitamins. The use of meat extenders, non-meat substances with high protein content, to partially replace meat, offers interesting opportunities towards the reformulation of healthier and more sustainable meat products. The objective of this review is to give a general point of view on what type of compounds are used as meat extenders and how they affect the physicochemical and sensory properties of reformulated products. Plant-based ingredients (pulses, cereals, tubers and fruits) have been widely used to replace up to 50% of meat. Mushrooms allow for higher proportions of meat substitution, with adequate results in reduced-sodium reformulated products. Insects and by-products from the food industry are novel approaches that present an opportunity to develop more sustainable meat products. In general, the use of meat extenders improves the yield of the products, with slight sensory modifications. These multiple possibilities make meat extenders’ use the most viable and interesting approach towards the production of healthier meat products with less environmental impact.

Development of a Monoclonal Antibody Specific to Cooked Mammalian Meats

1998 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 476-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUN-HWA P. HSIEH ◽  
SHYANG-CHWEN SHEU ◽  
ROGER C. BRIDGMAN
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Indirect Elisa ◽  
Mammalian Species ◽  
Meat Products ◽  
Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay ◽  
Muscle Proteins ◽  
Ground Meat ◽  
Initial Screening ◽  
Poultry Products ◽  
Cooked Meat

Detection of species adulteration in ground meat products is important for consumer protection and food-labeling law enforcement. This study was conducted to develop monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) that can be used in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for rapid detection of any cooked mammalian meats in cooked poultry products. Soluble muscle proteins extracted from cooked pork (heated at 100°C for 15 min) were used as the antigen to immunize mice for developing the MAb. One that was developed, MAb 2F8 (IgG2b class), strongly reacted with cooked meat of five mammalian species (beef cattle, hogs, sheep, horse, and deer) but did not react with any cooked poultry (chicken, turkey, and duck) or raw meats. At least 0.5% by weight of pork, beef, lamb, and horse meats in a chicken-based mixture could be detected using an indirect ELISA with MAb 2F8. The MAb 2F8 is useful in a single initial screening test to detect the presence of five nonpoultry meat adulterants in cooked poultry products.

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