The Importance of Country-of-Origin Information on Food Product Packaging
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Criteria | Segments |
---|---|
Sex | Women |
Age | 55–64 |
Region | Świętokrzyskie |
Place of living | Rural areas |
Education | Vocational |
Professional activity | Not working and taking care of one’s family |
Income | PLN 4001–5000 (per month, for the whole household) |
Household size | 3 |
Number of children | 1 |
Buying supplements | Yes |
Buying organic food | Yes |
Buying functional food | Yes |
Buying fair-trade products | Yes |
Body Mass Index | Overweight |
Self-rated health | Average |
Diet healthiness | Healthy |
Diet knowledge | Large |
Being on a special diet | Yes |
Independent Variables | Coeff. | SE | Wald χ2 | p |
---|---|---|---|---|
Age | 0.001 | 0.001 | 0.866 | 0.352 |
Diet healthiness | −0.026 | 0.013 | 4.098 | 0.043 |
Diet knowledge | 0.005 | 0.012 | 0.178 | 0.673 |
Health claims | 0.013 | 0.011 | 1.302 | 0.254 |
Nutrition claims | 0.021 | 0.011 | 3.486 | 0.062 |
List of ingredients | 0.013 | 0.010 | 1.868 | 0.172 |
Expiry date | 0.020 | 0.011 | 3.669 | 0.055 |
Cooking recipes | 0.015 | 0.008 | 3.757 | 0.053 |
Brand | 0.042 | 0.009 | 23.737 | <0.001 |
Organic certificate | 0.044 | 0.010 | 20.336 | <0.001 |
Quality signs | 0.023 | 0.010 | 5.304 | 0.021 |
Recommendations of scientific institutes | 0.013 | 0.009 | 2.362 | 0.124 |
Price | 0.002 | 0.008 | 0.035 | 0.851 |
Health effects of eating a given product | 0.000 | 0.011 | 0.002 | 0.966 |
Care for the natural environment | 0.021 | 0.010 | 4.393 | 0.036 |
Supporting producers (e.g., farmers) | −0.011 | 0.010 | 1.392 | 0.238 |
The product originating from Poland | 0.115 | 0.010 | 132.920 | <0.001 |
The utility of the product in a particular diet | −0.047 | 0.010 | 24.383 | <0.001 |
Above-average quality of the product | −0.033 | 0.012 | 8.143 | 0.004 |
Traditional method of production | 0.016 | 0.011 | 2.034 | 0.154 |
FOP in the shop | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.059 | 0.808 |
BOP in the shop | 0.000 | 0.000 | 1.353 | 0.245 |
FOP at home | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.547 | 0.460 |
BOP at home | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.990 |
Sex: woman-reference | −0.007 | 0.015 | 0.231 | 0.631 |
Education: primary-reference | ||||
Vocational education | 0.071 | 0.028 | 6.259 | 0.012 |
Secondary education | 0.034 | 0.028 | 1.435 | 0.231 |
Tertiary education | 0.037 | 0.032 | 1.360 | 0.244 |
Professional activity: blue-collar-reference | ||||
White-collar worker | 0.019 | 0.025 | 0.558 | 0.455 |
Unemployed | −0.002 | 0.034 | 0.004 | 0.951 |
Student | −0.033 | 0.033 | 0.973 | 0.324 |
Not working and taking care of one’s family | 0.031 | 0.026 | 1.402 | 0.236 |
Old age pensioner or disability pensioner | 0.007 | 0.023 | 0.090 | 0.764 |
Number of children: 0-reference | ||||
1 child in the household | 0.023 | 0.017 | 1.888 | 0.169 |
2 children in the household | −0.021 | 0.021 | 0.995 | 0.319 |
3 children in the household | 0.016 | 0.039 | 0.161 | 0.688 |
4+ children in the household | −0.094 | 0.064 | 2.190 | 0.139 |
Purchasing organic food | 0.019 | 0.015 | 1.467 | 0.226 |
Purchasing functional food | −0.001 | 0.015 | 0.004 | 0.947 |
Being on a special diet for health reasons | 0.034 | 0.018 | 3.495 | 0.062 |
Criteria | Segments |
---|---|
Sex | men |
Age | 55–64 |
Region | Lubuskie |
Place of living | Town up to 50,000 |
Education | Vocational |
Professional activity | Old age pensioner or disability pensioner |
Income | PLN 4001–5000 |
Household size | 1 |
Number of children | 4+ |
Buying supplements | Yes |
Buying organic food | Yes |
Buying functional food | No |
Buying fair-trade products | Yes |
Body Mass Index | Obese |
Self-rated health | Poor |
Diet healthiness | Average |
Diet knowledge | Small |
Being on a special diet | Yes |
Independent Variables | OR | −95% CL | +95% CL | p | LR1 Test | χ2 | p |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sex: woman-reference | 1.541 | 1.065 | 2.231 | 0.022 | −390.653 | 5.297 | 0.021 |
Age (years) | 1.026 | 1.015 | 1.037 | <0.001 | −382.331 | 21.941 | <0.001 |
Professional activity: blue-collar worker-reference | −365.448 | 16.134 | 0.006 | ||||
White-collar worker | 0.878 | 0.478 | 1.610 | 0.673 | |||
Unemployed | 0.564 | 0.193 | 1.655 | 0.297 | |||
Student | 0.178 | 0.054 | 0.588 | 0.005 | |||
Not working and taking care of one’s family | 0.949 | 0.485 | 1.857 | 0.878 | |||
Old age pensioner or disability pensioner | 1.098 | 0.695 | 1.735 | 0.688 | |||
Household size (persons) | 0.833 | 0.725 | 0.956 | 0.009 | −389.628 | 7.347 | 0.007 |
BMI (kg/m2) | 1.042 | 1.008 | 1.077 | 0.015 | −390.460 | 5.684 | 0.017 |
Care for the natural environment (1–5) | 1.422 | 1.151 | 1.756 | 0.001 | −387.562 | 11.478 | 0.001 |
Supporting producers (e.g., farmers) (1–5) | 1.413 | 1.156 | 1.728 | 0.001 | −387.389 | 11.826 | 0.001 |
The product originating from Poland (1–5) | 2.433 | 1.874 | 3.159 | <0.001 | −364.542 | 57.520 | <0.001 |
Traditional method of production (1–5) | 1.740 | 1.389 | 2.180 | <0.001 | −380.129 | 26.345 | 0.000 |
Independent Variables | OR | −95% CL | +95% CL | p | Wald χ2 | p |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sex: woman-reference | 1.681 | 1.073 | 2.632 | 0.023 | 5.146 | 0.023 |
Age (years) | 1.028 | 1.007 | 1.049 | 0.008 | 7.139 | 0.008 |
Professional activity: blue-collar worker-reference | 6.584 | 0.253 | ||||
White-collar worker | 0.946 | 0.495 | 1.807 | 0.866 | ||
Unemployed | 0.757 | 0.243 | 2.361 | 0.631 | ||
Student | 0.629 | 0.168 | 2.352 | 0.491 | ||
Not working and taking care of one’s family | 1.463 | 0.682 | 3.139 | 0.329 | ||
Old age pensioner or disability pensioner | 0.571 | 0.309 | 1.053 | 0.073 | ||
Household size (persons) | 0.965 | 0.822 | 1.132 | 0.660 | 0.193 | 0.660 |
BMI (kg/m2) | 1.013 | 0.970 | 1.058 | 0.548 | 0.361 | 0.548 |
Care for the natural environment (1–5) | 1.136 | 0.858 | 1.504 | 0.372 | 0.796 | 0.372 |
Supporting producers (e.g., farmers) (1–5) | 1.000 | 0.763 | 1.310 | 0.999 | 0.000 | 0.999 |
The product originating from Poland (1–5) | 2.229 | 1.597 | 3.113 | <0.001 | 22.148 | <0.001 |
Traditional method of production (1–5) | 1.046 | 0.772 | 1.418 | 0.771 | 0.085 | 0.771 |
Independent Variables | OR | −95% CL | +95% CL | p | Wald χ2 | p |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sex: woman-reference | 1.574 | 1.051 | 2.358 | 0.028 | 9.790 | 0.002 |
Age (years) | 1.020 | 1.007 | 1.032 | 0.002 | 4.841 | 0.028 |
The product originating from Poland (1–5) | 2.468 | 1.871 | 3.256 | <0.001 | 40.906 | <0.001 |
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