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In modern societies consumers often face a trade-off between health and taste, the latter which encourages consumption … of the health value of a given nutrient in different foods combined with decreasing marginal utilities of taste could … of fatty, salty and sweet foods, whereas health awareness discourages consumption of the same food. The resulting diet …
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The reduction of pesticides use is becoming a priority for the public authorities in many countries. We conducted an experiment with wine consumers to see whether end-consumers value the dissemination of information about environmentally-friendly production practices. The experiment was devised...
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Consumers' preferences for meat quality attributes such as color influence their purchasing decisions. Better understanding of consumer preferences can help meat processors and others attain effective product development and marketing and inform public policy decisions on nutrition and food...
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European statistics show that one of the most widespread source of health risks related to food is mycotoxins. The …
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health risk. It is also found that consumers do not perceive that organic products have higher prices than conventional …
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In recent years an increasing consumer preference for regional food can be observed, both in Germany and in other European countries. Regression models investigating this region-of-origin effect are rare and in most cases the region or sample size under consideration is quite small. Different...
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Food markets are increasingly characterized by an array of quality assurances with respect to credence attributes, many of which relate to agricultural production methods. A variety of organizations are associated with these quality assurance claims, including private, third party and public...
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In this paper, we describe individual food consumption decisions as driven by a utility effect and a food environment … introduce the food environment effect by showing how the food environment can affect food consumption decisions and how this can … skew the resulting food consumption vector. Finally, we analyse manipulations of the food environment as a potential form …
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Canada the regulatory environment governing health claims for functional food products is somewhat more restrictive than in … informed choices about foods with enhanced health attributes. The degree to which a particular jurisdiction permits health … claims for food products and the type of allowable health claim influence the information set available to consumers. In …
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We assessed the consumer welfare effects of two generic food miles labels: carbon dioxide (CO2) emission label and number of miles label. Using data from a choice experiment, our results generally suggest that a mandatory labeling policy for either type of label would have a positive welfare...
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