This study investigated the consumers' preference and willingness to pay for enriched snack product traits. Using a choice experiment framework,we generated 8400 observations from a random sample of 700 respondents in Shashamanne and Hawassa city administrations. Taste parameters and...

This research deals with consumers' perceptions about functional, genetically-modified, ethnic, convenience, and organic food. The study was conducted in Maribor amongst women and men aged between 18 and 55 years, divided into four groups. It focused on social, economic, quantitative, and...

We use scanner data of supermarket sales to investigate the effects of the EU School Fruit campaign, conducted in a sample of primary schools in the city of Rome during 2010 and 2011, on the consumption of unhealthy snacks. We allocate supermarkets to treatment and control groups depending on...

We use scanner data of supermarket sales to investigate the effects of the EU School Fruit campaign, conducted in a sample of primary schools in the city of Rome during 2010 and 2011, on the consumption of unhealthy snacks. We allocate supermarkets to treatment and control groups depending on...

[paper in French] During the last decades, consumption of fresh vegetables has declined while consumption of processed vegetables has increased. This paper aims at characterizing the purchases of processed vegetables in France by carrying out a principal component analysis of consumption data...

This paper reviews literature on alternative convenience food choices and analyses the findings from consumer behaviour and manufacturing/retailing perspective. As consumers' demand for easy prepared and healthier food products has gradually increased, so has the related research activity. This...

A variation of the household production theory was used to select relevant explanatory variables for the demand for convenience foods. A convenience food index was used to measure the convenience in food preparation. Because of the nature of the measure of convenience, the tobit regression...

Die Verbreitung von Übergewicht und Adipositas ist besorgniserregend, auch in der Schweiz. Von den vielen Faktoren, die im Zusammenhang mit Übergewicht stehen, werden die Marketingaktivitäten der Lebensmittelindustrie besonders stark kritisiert (Seiders and Petty 2004, p. 154). Daher ist es...