Understanding the motives for food choice in Western Balkan Countries

Milosevic, Jasna; Žeželj, Iris; Gorton, Matthew; Barjolle, Dominique

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“…Thus, the food choice questionnaire (FCQ), created by Steptoe, Pollard and Wardle as a tool to measure the motives underlying people's selection of food [33], revealed through a four-country study (Belgium, Hungary, Romania and the Philippines) that sensory appeal, health, convenience and price were among the five most important factors influencing food choices in Belgium, Hungary and Romania, while for the Philippines, the most important factors were health, price and mood, followed by appeal [34]. The same FCQ, which was used in six Balkan countries (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia) with a sample of 3085 adult participants, indicated that sensory appeal, purchasing convenience, and health and natural content as the three most important factors [35]. Padilla Bravo et al discovered that among German consumers, altruistic motives were the primary factor affecting their attitudes toward organic food and purchasing behavior (according to a study of 20,000 German-speaking residents aged 14 to 80 years old) [36].…”

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Organic Food Perception: Fad, or Healthy and Environmentally Friendly? A Case on Romanian Consumers

Petrescu

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2015

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Abstract:The main purpose of this paper is to explore consumers' perceptions of organic food and examine whether organic food products are perceived in the North-West Region of Romania as offering health and environmental benefits or as simply another sine qua non condition to be integrated into the luxurious yuppie lifestyle. The inspiration for our study came from witnessing the stereotypical image of organic food consumers as "stylish, trendy, fancy consumers" in the last three to five years. Scientific evidence on the perceptions of organic food is based on a probabilistic survey. The results indicate an environmental consciousness of organic food consumers in North-Western Region of Romania in terms of organic food: a high percentage of consumers believe that organic food is healthier than conventional food (87%) and that it contributes to environmental protection more than conventional food (75%). A statistically significant difference (p < 0.05) was observed between people with higher education and those without higher education concerning the following beliefs: belief that most people consume organic products because they are in fashion, and belief that organic food contributes to environmental protection.

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Organic Food Perception: Fad, or Healthy and Environmentally Friendly? A Case on Romanian Consumers

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“…Weight and height were also included to determine Body Mass Index (BMI) (Januszewska ., 2011;Jáuregui and Bolaños, 2011;Milošević, ., 2012).…”

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“…It has been used also to analyse the new ethical values of modern society as the influence of animal welfare in consumption (Toma ., 2012), and finally, as a methodological tool to prove is validity and to know consumption motives in other regions and cultures (Prescott ., 2002;Ares and Gámbaro, 2007;Honkanen and Frewer, 2009;Januszewska ., 2011;Jáuregui and Bolaños, 2011;Ellorriaga ., 2012;Milošević, , 2012).…”

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“…Other works mentioned health as important factor too (Steptoe ., and 1995; Prescott ., 2002;Januszewska ., 2011;Milošević, ., 2012). In the work undertaken in Uruguay, Health was associated with the nutritional state (Ares and Gámbaro, 2007) and in the study undertook in the Balkans it is associated to natural aspects (Milošević, ., 2012). While health is reported to be relevant as a second factor appears in the work in the UK (Steptoe ., 1995) and in Taiwan and Malaysia (Prescott ., 2002).…”

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“…Answers were recorded through a unipolar scale of five points of the Likert type (Bryman and Cramer, 2011;Milošević, ., 2012), ranging from 1 = never to 5 = always.…”

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