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Consumers’ purchasing habits and food poisoning risk - A portuguese survey

In the Western countries, despite tight food safety legislation, food poisoning episodes are still quite frequent. According to the European legislation, it is mandatory for all European member states the annual reporting of information on food-borne outbreaks. In Portugal, the National Institute of Health (INSA) notifies each year the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) about the data of the foodborne outbre...

Consumer perception about edible insects’ relation with environment and sustain...

The interest in adopting more sustainable diets can be a driver for consumers to engage the consumption of edible insects, even in countries where they are not culturally accepted as food. This work aimed to study the perceptions and knowledge of consumers in different countries towards edible insects and their relation with environment and sustainability. The present investigation was based on a questionnaire ...

Investigation of the Level of Knowledge in Different Countries about Edible Ins...

This study aimed to investigate the level of knowledge about edible insects (EIs) in a sample of people from thirteen countries (Croatia, Greece, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, and Turkey). Data collection was based on a questionnaire survey applied through online tools between July and November 2021. For data analysis, techniques such as factor analysis,...

Marketing motivations influencing food choice in 16 countries: segmentation and...

Food behaviour is governed by different kinds of motivations, some of individual nature and others related with the external food environment. This study investigated the eating motivations in sixteen countries with respect to commercial and marketing influences on food choices. The questionnaire survey was developed between September 2017 and June 2018, via online tools, targeting a convenience sample of resid...

Food safety in portuguese Companies in Covid-19 Pandemic Context

The eating motivations scale (EATMOT): Development and validation by means of c...

Introduction: The objective was to develop and validate an instrument that measures different determinants of people’s food choices and simultaneously accounts for a variety of factors: health, emotions, price and availability, society and culture, environment and politics, and marketing and advertising. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study focusing on food choice determinants. It was carried out in 16 coun...

Can we understand food oral processing using Kano model? Case study with confec...

This study had two objectives, to determine oral processing parameters and its corre- lation with mechanical properties of selected confectionery products and to catego- rize oral processing and sensory attributes based on a Kano model. Thirteen panelists analyzed five confectionery products in the oral processing part of the study. In paral- lel, 327 interviews participated in a field survey to enable analyzin...