Sensory acceptability, consumption frequency, and factors associated with consumption of fruits and vegetables among low and medium income consumers in Argentina

Arce, Soledad; Ottaviano, Fernanda Gugole; Sosa, Miriam

doi:10.1111/joss.12632

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“…The sample consisted of 66% females and 34% males. Women were more willing to participate in the study as they are usually the food providers for the family as well as decision makers (Arce, Gugole, Ottaviano & Sosa, 2021). Middle-aged respondents (age 25 to 45) had the largest proportion (43.62%), older respondents (age above 45) had a lower share (20.48%) and young respondents (age below 25) had the smallest share (5.59%).…”

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“…In this preliminary study 20 participants were surveyed using the free listing technique as a simple and powerful consumer research method to gain insight into specific food category (Hough & Ferrais, 2010;Arce et al, 2021). Firstly, participants had to write a list of vegetable types and forms they like and often eat.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…After that, they were asked to indicate the reasons they find important for vegetable consumption, both positive and negative. The reasons with similar meanings were grouped into different categories (Arce et al, 2021;Viana et al, 2021): composition (healthy and safe), preferences (tasty, high-quality food and family members love it), supply (domestic, seasonal, long shelf-life) and convenience (easy to use, often used for meal preparation, good for salad, good snack). Terms mentioned by more than 10% of the respondents were included in the questionnaire (Hough & Ferrais, 2010;Arce et al, 2021).…”

Section: Preliminary Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The reasons with similar meanings were grouped into different categories (Arce et al, 2021;Viana et al, 2021): composition (healthy and safe), preferences (tasty, high-quality food and family members love it), supply (domestic, seasonal, long shelf-life) and convenience (easy to use, often used for meal preparation, good for salad, good snack). Terms mentioned by more than 10% of the respondents were included in the questionnaire (Hough & Ferrais, 2010;Arce et al, 2021). The most mentioned vegetables (tomato, potato, paprika, cabbage, cucumber, lettuce, onion, garlic and greens) and the most mention reasons were used for Q1.…”

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“…Consumer personal preferences depend on a number of factors. In the case of vegetable, among those factors are sensory properties including taste (Ion, 2015), quality (Coulibaly, Nouhoheflin, Aitchedji, Cherry & Adegbola, 2011), inputs from persons whose opinion is relevant for the consumers (Brown, 2003), as well as economic factors like price (Guerrero, Abad, García & Jiménez, 2012) or income (Arce et al 2021).…”

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Exploring consumer preferences and factors associated with vegetable consumption

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The consumers' preferences and their reasons for vegetable consumption were examined with the aim to provide useful information to increase the consumption of these food items. Consumers' general viewpoints about vegetable consumption were examined using an online questionnaire. The study was conducted on a sample of 711 respondents chosen randomly and obtained data were analyzed by the correspondence analysis. Results suggest that consumers consider vegetables as tasty, easy to use and healthy for consumption. The main drawbacks for vegetable consumption are safety issues, short shelf-life and high price. In order to increase the consumption of these foodstuffs, each type of fresh and processed vegetable should have a specifically designed campaign, emphasizing its specific attribute. Obtained results might provide an insight into the current state of consumers' behavior in Serbia and might be useful for creating specific promotional programs and more appropriate communication strategies aiming to increase consumers' knowledge about the importance of regular vegetable consumption. They should raise consumers' awareness by emphasizing the importance of adequate daily vegetable consumption. This, in turn, should improve public health and reduce the health and economic costs of massive chronic diseases caused by inadequate diet.

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Pezo³

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The effect of education on fruit and vegetable purchase disparities in Chile

Silva

Magaña‐Lemus²,

Godoy³

2021

BFJ

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PurposeThe objective of this article is to analyze fruit and vegetable (FV) purchasing decisions between 2011–12 and 2016–17 in Chile, and FV purchases by level of education in this period as determinant to explain dietary disparities across population groups.Design/methodology/approachUsing Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, the authors analyze FV purchases over time. Taking into consideration censoring, this study uses two waves of the Family Budget Survey (national representative) by the National Statistics Institute of Chile.FindingsThe authors find that when comparing income quintiles 1–4, between 2011–12 and 2016–17, the years of education of the household head cannot explain FV purchases disparities. In contrast, in income quintile 5, between 2011–12 and 2016–17, the marginal effect of education of the household head has significantly decreased FV purchases. When analyzing social determinants, gender and income quintiles in 2016–17, they do not have a significant effect on FV purchase disparities. However, the zone of the household, metropolitan zone vs other urban zones in the country has a significant effect on FV purchase disparities.Research limitations/implicationsThe datasets cover food home purchases.Practical implicationsThe authors can conclude the relevance of implementing policies and programs to lead for healthier food environments such as offer more FVs in the school feeding program and social protection nutrition sensitive measures.Originality/valueUsing two waves of a nationally representative dataset, this article decomposes the effect of education of the household head to explain FV purchase disparities.

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Using the free listing technique to study consumers’ representations of traditional gastronomy in Argentina

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The aims of this research were (i) to study with a sample of Argentine consumers the representations of traditional gastronomy through the free listing method; (ii) to identify consumers’ typologies according to their representation of traditional gastronomy; and (iii) to establish some methodological implications using the free listing in the study of the gastronomic field. A survey was conducted in which 249 Argentines from the Littoral area were recruited. Through a free listing task, participants were asked to mention the main foods or dishes of Argentina’s gastronomy. Twenty-eight foods, dishes or food categories were obtained that are part of the representations of Argentina’s gastronomy. The results showed a strong connection between gastronomy and the representations of the consumers with the “Asado” (CSI = 0.289, Smith = 0.613), the traditional and characteristic food of Argentine gastronomy. Three groups of consumers were identified, presenting differences in the representation of traditional gastronomy (p < 0.05). This work is pioneering for studying gastronomy representations from the consumers’ language through the free listing method using the case of traditional Argentine gastronomy. Future directions of free listing in the gastronomic field are identified and discussed.

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Sensory acceptability, consumption frequency, and factors associated with consumption of fruits and vegetables among low and medium income consumers in Argentina

Cited by 9 publications

References 31 publications

Exploring consumer preferences and factors associated with vegetable consumption

Exploring consumer preferences and factors associated with vegetable consumption

The effect of education on fruit and vegetable purchase disparities in Chile

Using the free listing technique to study consumers’ representations of traditional gastronomy in Argentina

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