Is Consumer Preference for Apple Driven Only by Fruit Quality?

Racskó, J.; Miller, Deborah; Duarte, Emília; Szabó, Zoltán; Soltész, M.; Nyéki, J.; Szukics, J.

doi:10.17660/actahortic.2009.831.40

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“…Although the specifi c quality traits may differ among fruits, for most fruits the most important traits are fl avor, most commonly measured as total soluble solids and titratable acidity and texture, measured as fi rmness, crispiness, and/or juiciness (Poole and Baron 1996 ;Racskó et al 2009 ;Kajikawa 1998 ;Crisosto et al 2003Crisosto et al , 2006Crisosto et al , 2007Crisosto et al 2004 ;Crisosto and Crisosto 2005 ;Péneau et al 2006 ;Harker et al 2008 ;Turner et al 2008 ) . Common complaints for fruit would be the lack of fl avor and mealy fl esh without juice as seen in stone fruit with internal breakdown (Crisosto et al 1999 ;Peace et al 2005a, b ) and in apples (Jaeger et al 1998 ;Racskó et al 2009 ) .…”

Section: Consistent High Fruit Qualitymentioning

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“…Common complaints for fruit would be the lack of fl avor and mealy fl esh without juice as seen in stone fruit with internal breakdown (Crisosto et al 1999 ;Peace et al 2005a, b ) and in apples (Jaeger et al 1998 ;Racskó et al 2009 ) . Aroma, although important, is diffi cult to measure and external qualities, such as shape, color, and size, which are easily standardized during packing, are usually of secondary importance to fl avor and texture.…”

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Section: Consistent High Fruit Qualitymentioning

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“…As illustrated in Figure 4.5, relatively higher mean scores for freshness, lack of damage, sweetness of taste and freedom from blemishes indicated that consumers attached great importance to these attributes when buying mangoes. A number of studies have indicated the predominant importance that consumers place on these attributes in their fruit purchases (Racskó et al 2009;Ali et al 2010;Gunden & Thomas 2012;Jiménez-Guerrero et al 2012). It can be seen that mean scores given for food safety and marketing related attributes were not as high as those for the search and experience attributes.…”

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Value chain performance improvement for sustainable mango industry development in Pakistan

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Pakistan is one of the world's leading mango producing and exporting countries. However, Pakistan's mango industry is beset with a number of chain-wide challenges that not only lower the value of mangoes to consumers and reduce the profitability of value chain actors, but also hinder the industry's potential contribution to the country's socio-economic development. As a result, there is now a growing realisation that the mango industry must be developed on a sustainable basis. This coincides with an accelerating drive towards sustainable development of agri-food industries around the world, in order to provide growing populations with adequate supplies of safe and affordable food.Thus, this study aimed to find out how the performance of value chains could be improved in order to bring sustainable development to Pakistan's mango industry. It focused on four issues: 1) consumers' mango value preferences and the implications of these preferences for the industry's development; 2) the structure and performance of the mango industry; 3) constraints on sustainable development of the industry; and 4) measures needed to address consumer, economic, social and environmental issues in the value chains so as to promote industry's sustainable development.A conceptual framework that integrated value chain and triple bottom line (TBL) sustainable development approaches was developed arguing that sustainable development could not be achieved without improving economic, social and environmental performance across entire value chains. A case study methodology was adopted and the case study participants included consumers, value chain actors and public stakeholders in the Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh.To understand mango value preferences, five focus group discussions involving 40 consumers and a survey of 450 consumers was conducted. Thematic content analysis was performed on focus group data whereas descriptive statistics and clusters analysis were employed to analyse survey data. In order to understand the industry's structure, performance and constraints, 150 in-depth interviews were held with value chain actors such as retailers, wholesalers, commission agents, exporters, preharvest contractors, growers and input suppliers and representatives of public stakeholders. Data from the interviews were analysed using thematic content analysis.Consumer data showed the importance of both intrinsic (search and experience) and extrinsic (safety and marketing) quality attributes in mango buying. In-depth analysis of these attributes revealed three consumer segments -mango lovers, value seekers and safety conscious. Mango lovers concentrated primarily on search and experience attributes and safety conscious attached more importance to safety related attributes. Value seekers however considered all attributes important. In general consumers expressed their dissatisfaction with the mango value delivered to them because of use of Calcium III carbide for mango ripening, retailer malpractices and ineffective government regula...

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“…The debate of the results confirms that girls dislike the sour-astringent fruit, while boys do like acidulated fruit. Even more, Racskó et al (2009) stated that females gave higher importance ratings for most attributes than males.…”

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“…Thus, on the Romanian markets are prevailing fruits belonging to well-known apple cultivars, but obtained by farmers in different countries. Nowadays, if the origin of fruit and the cultivars do not influence consumer's choice (Denver, 2014;Racskó et al, 2009), consumers are increasingly interested in fruit qualities in connexion with the price and their socio-economic situation, therefore consumers' acceptance involves both the intrinsic and extrinsic product factors as well as cognitive, demographic, social and attitude factors (Bignami, 2003;Seppä, 2014).…”

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Consumer Perception Concerning Apple Fruit Quality, Depending on Cultivars and Hedonic Scale of Evaluation - a Case Study

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The objective of this study was to analyse fruit quality through consumers' perceptions and their preferences revealed by two panel questionnaires. Among the most common apple cultivars on the Romanian markets, were chosen the ones existing simultaneously and continuously (over two-years, during January-March): 'Golden Delicious', 'Braeburn', 'Granny Smith', 'Red Delicious', 'Jonagold', 'Jonathan', 'Florina', 'Idared'. The consumers' panel for sensory evaluation was represented by students, who completed two types of questionnaires. Both questionnaires refer to foremost traits for dessert apple, such as fruit appearance (size, shape, color) and intrinsic peculiarities (pulp consistency, juiciness, taste, flavor). First questionnaire comprised different scales for the traits (1-3, 1-5 or 1-15), while the second one consisted of the hedonic scale (1-9) for all traits. For commercial appearance of the fruits were highlighted 'Idared', 'Granny Smith', 'Braeburn' and especially 'Jonagold'. 'Braeburn' was distinct by the highest quality taste (average grade 13.9 on the scoring taste scale 1-15) and also for fruit flavor. 'Granny Smith', a commercially attractive-looking fruit, received only an average of 6.2 for taste and 2.6 for flavor. 'Granny Smith' presented the largest value for the coefficients of variation for taste, this variety being preferred less by female than male tasters. Inconsistency of the market, prices and foreign assortment on Romanian market was illustrated by the lack of statistical correlations between commercial aspect of fruit and price. The study could provide useful background information for apples breeders, farmers and marketing fruits strategy. The use of different scales for panel evaluation, dependent on the relevance of traits, might be a proper solution for reducing bias. In this case, the 1-15 large scale for apple taste compared with lower ones for other traits assured a more appropriate image of the tasters' preferences.

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Is Consumer Preference for Apple Driven Only by Fruit Quality?

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