Consumer Behavior and Food Choice
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensory and Consumer Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2021) | Viewed by 186148
Special Issue Editor
Interests: food marketing; consumer behavior; consumer science; food store brands; emotions in food consumption; food sensory analysis; alcoholic beverage consumption; food waste
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Understanding consumer behavior is one of the major challenges for food managers and food companies in order to meet consumers’ needs and demand. Nowadays, consumers care about what they eat, how their food is produced, and the impact that food production and consumption have on the environment and society, but consumers do not behave in a homogeneous way and differ in the way they make decisions about food. In addition, today consumers are more demanding when making food choices, and previous research highlights health, convenience, functionality, and pleasure as the main drivers of food selection. Similarly, there are multiple factors potentially influencing food choice that could be product-based or consumer-based, such as consumer underlying motivations, food involvement, lifestyle, and cultural and social aspects, as well as food products’ packaging, labelling, price, country of origin, and even appearance.
This Special Issue invites researchers to submit high-quality original research contributions and reviews on consumer behavior in food selection, food consumption, and purchase decisions, including “hot topics”, innovative research perspectives, innovations in research methodologies, and insights from interdisciplinary fields.
This Special Issue welcomes original research that covers all aspects of consumer behavior related to food choice, and potentially encompasses topics such as food consumption behavior; consumer multisensory perception; healthy, nutritional, or quality food choices; hedonic and functional food selection; as well as social and cultural aspects of food choice.
Prof. Dr. Cristina Calvo-Porral
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Consumer behavior
- Food multisensory perception
- Quality and safety food choices
- Healthy and nutritional food choices
- Food package and labelling
- Local food and organic food
- Hedonic and functional food choices
- Food choice motivations
- Social and cultural aspects of food choice
- Consumer lifestyle and food choices
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