Determinants of economic motivations for food choice: insights for the understanding of consumer behaviour

Martinho, Vítor João Pereira Domingues; Bartkienė, Elena; Đjekić, Ilija; Tarcea, Monica; Barić, Irena Colić; Černelič-Bizjak, Maša; Szűcs, Viktória; Sarcona, Alessandra; El-Kenawy, Ayman El-Meghawry; Ferreira, Vanessa Alves; Kļava, Dace; Korzeniowska, Małgorzata; Vittadini, Elena; Leal, Marcela; Bolhuis, Dieuwerke P.; Παπαγεωργίου, Μαρία; Guiné, Raquel

doi:10.1080/09637486.2021.1939659

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“…Dietary guidelines are currently available for 90 countries [ 61 ], which, as shown in 3.1, fail to motivate consumers to follow healthy eating habits. This could be because an individual’s food choice is influenced by a multitude of indicators: biological reasons (e.g., intolerances), social factors (e.g., food-related traditions, social identity, awareness, economic situation) [ 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 ], or a constant exposure to external cues to food (e.g., easy access high calorie foods, diet-related media) [ 66 ] have shown to complicate healthy eating endeavors.…”

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Influencing Factors for Sustainable Dietary Transformation—A Case Study of German Food Consumption

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Michalke

Gaugler

2022

Foods

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In a case study of Germany, we examine current food consumption along the three pillars of sustainability to evaluate external factors that influence consumers’ dietary decisions. We investigate to what extent diets meet nutritional requirements (social factor), the diets’ environmental impact (ecological factor), and the food prices’ influence on purchasing behavior (economic factor). For this, we compare two dietary recommendations (plant-based, omnivorous) with the status quo, and we examine different consumption styles (conventional, organic produce). Additionally, we evaluate 1446 prices of food items from three store types (organic store, supermarket, and discounter). With this, we are able to evaluate and compare 30 different food baskets along their health, environmental, and economic impact. Results show that purchasing decisions are only slightly influenced by health-related factors. Furthermore, few consumers align their diet with low environmental impact. In contrast, a large share of consumers opt for cheap foods, regardless of health and environmental consequences. We find that price is, arguably, the main factor in food choices from a sustainability standpoint. Action should be taken by policy makers to financially incentivize consumers in favor of healthy and environmentally friendly diets. Otherwise, the status quo further drives especially underprivileged consumers towards unhealthy and environmentally damaging consumption.

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Influencing Factors for Sustainable Dietary Transformation—A Case Study of German Food Consumption

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Michalke

Gaugler

2022

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“…The use of convenience samples and internet snowball/cascade invitation results almost inevitably in uneven group representativeness [ 89 ]. For example, it is very frequent that more women than men participate in these surveys [ 82 , 90 , 91 ], because women are usually more willing to respond to questionnaire surveys.…”

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Food Literacy Scale: Validation through Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis in a Sample of Portuguese University Students

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Eating behaviors and healthy food choices are associated with food literacy, and they have a huge impact on one’s health status. For that reason, to increase food literacy is a way to effectively help individuals make appropriate choices that help maintain health and diminish the incidence of non-communicable diseases. The objective of this work was to test and validate a scale to assess food literacy. The validation was conducted on a sample of 924 Portuguese university students. The scale was composed of 50 items, which were submitted to exploratory and confirmatory factors analysis. The final validated scale corresponded to a second-order model with a global factor called “Food literacy”, which retained 26 items distributed by three factors: F1—literacy about the nutritional composition of foods (10 items), F2—literacy about labelling and food choices (7 items), and F3—literacy about healthy eating practices (9 items). The internal consistency of the scale is very high, with an alpha higher than 0.9, and the Pierson correlations between the three factors and the global are also higher than 0.9. In conclusion, the present scale has been validated and can therefore be utilized to measure food literacy.

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“…Policy changes, such as limiting simple sugars and salt in certain foods, have a definite impact, as was recently observed in Portugal [49]. However, the food literacy of populations is generally still low, despite some awareness of the linkage between diet, health, and climate [50][51][52]. Crisis-related food supply constraints and rises in prices may further complicate the adoption of sustainable diets and may compromise the 2030 agenda.…”

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“…The rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICT) will certainly facilitate this job to accelerate the efforts to produce and consume healthier and more nutritious foods while addressing climate change, biodiversity loss, soil health, and water pollution. As a result, several ongoing initiatives aim at raising awareness and enabling suitable policies [49][50][51][52]. This is the case for the Portuguese Innovation Agenda for this decade, in which the Ministry of Agriculture defined a 20% increase in adherence to the DM as a target [79].…”

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Mediterranean Diet, a Sustainable Cultural Asset

Barros

Delgado

2022

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The Mediterranean diet is a dietary pattern and associated lifestyle that adopts mainly plant foods. The Mediterranean diet (MD) has been acknowledged by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity since 2013, a candidacy involving seven countries in the area, including Portugal, aiming to safeguard the MD in its multiple dimensions. The corresponding food system is recognized as healthy and sustainable by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and by the World Health Organization (WHO), inspiring dietary guidelines around the world. The current entry examines the sustainability and resilience of the Mediterranean dietary food pattern, using the Portuguese as a case study to examine the feasibility of prospective composite indicators in assessing the sustainability of diets and food systems. Information extracted from reports and official statistics was used to assess a set of proposed metrics. Although information to fulfil most metrics was found, some data gaps were identified, highlighting the need to improve existing metrics. The current work highlights the role of science and policy in transforming four key areas of human–nature interaction: use of natural resources, food systems, production and consumption, and cities’ sustainability. Since sustainable production and consumption (SGD 12) is key to the UN’s 2030 agenda, it is important to analyze to what extent the dissemination of the Mediterranean diet among the population can be a way to achieve this goal.

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Determinants of economic motivations for food choice: insights for the understanding of consumer behaviour

Cited by 15 publications

References 60 publications

Influencing Factors for Sustainable Dietary Transformation—A Case Study of German Food Consumption

Influencing Factors for Sustainable Dietary Transformation—A Case Study of German Food Consumption

Food Literacy Scale: Validation through Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis in a Sample of Portuguese University Students

Mediterranean Diet, a Sustainable Cultural Asset

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