Using Twitter^® as source of information for dietary market research: a study on veganism and plant‐based diets

Abstract

Social media has experienced rapid growth in recent years and has been subjected of discussions on a wide range of topics including new lifestyles and eating habits, providing a great opportunity to obtain spontaneous consumer information. In this sense, the present work aimed to understand the perception of Twitter Ò users about themes of veganism and plant-based diets. The social networking data mining methodology was applied to measure the relationship between both terms. The significant differences found were analysed using the global chi-square (v 2) test, and their sources of variation were investigated by the chi-square per cell. The results indicate that the vegan group's posts are more related to the categories of recipes, trends, criticism and negative comments about veganism, being more often citing sources when compared to the other group. The results of the plant-based diet group are more significantly related to the impacts of nutrition, physical activity and consumer health. In conclusion, Twitter Ò has proved to be an interesting tool for obtaining data on (re) produced food publications on social media and their results can guide the market and the academic environment in creating new products, services and marketing strategies to answer the needs of specific consumers.

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“…Currently, great emphasis has been given to the offer of proteins and plant-based products for vegans and vegetarians. The profile of the vegan and vegetarian public is focused on the consumption and use of plant-based products (Aleixo et al, 2020). While vegetarians refrain from consuming meat, vegans-often considered to be a group among vegetarians-have a total restriction of products of animal origin in all their needs since this label is more than just a set of dietary preferences (Rosenfeld, 2019;Nezlek and Forestell, 2020).…”