Understanding consumers of food products /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Frewer, Lynn, Trijp, Hans van (Johannes Cornelia Maria van)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton : Cambridge : CRC ; Woodhead, 2007.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Food choice : an introduction
  • Sensory influences on food choice and food intake
  • The impact of context and environment on consumer food choice
  • Theories of food choice development
  • Perception of risk, benefit and trust associated with consumer food choice
  • Branding and labelling of food products
  • How consumers perceive food quality
  • Consumer attitudes towards convenience foods
  • Outsourcing meal preparation
  • Consumer attitudes to food innovation and technology
  • Food consumers and organic agriculture
  • Life expectancy and demographic variables influencing food preferences : the case of the US
  • Cross-cultural dimensions in food choice : Europe
  • Gender differences in food choice
  • Children and food choice
  • Understanding Asian consumers of food products
  • Liking, wanting and eating : drivers of food choice and intake in obesity
  • Consumer attitudes towards functional foods
  • The priorities of health and wellness shoppers around the globe
  • Consumers, communication and food allergy
  • Consumers of food products, domestic hygiene and public health
  • Changing unhealthy food choices
  • Special factors and food choice : consumption as practice
  • Developing a coherent European food safety policy : the challenge of value-based conflicts to EU food safety governance
  • Science, society and food policy
  • Planned promotion of healthy eating to improve population health
  • Public engagement in food policy
  • Food, citizens and market : the quest for responsible consuming
  • The ethics of food production and consumption
  • Looking to the future