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Insects based foods: Consumer perspective

The consumption of foods of animal origin poses some challenges in the present and for the future. The environmental impacts of producing animal protein are relevant, and they include the emission of gases with greenhouse effect (like methane, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide), the use of vast areas of land for animal rearing and for cultivation of pastures, consumption of high amounts of water, and pollution ...

Characterization of Sustainable Food Initiatives: Preliminary Study.

Abstract: A sustainable food system can be described as a system that ensures economic, social, and environmental sustainability to secure food and nutrition for current and future generations. The present research aimed to identify and characterize sustainable food initiatives to understand the governance framework, the motivations, the reasons for success, the typology of actors involved, and future prospects...

Healthy motivations for food consumption in 16 countries

There are many factors that can influence people’s attitudes towards healthy eating, including personal nature, sociodemographic influences, and lifestyle. This work investigated to what extent the motivations for healthy food consumption are shaped in individuals from different countries. A questionnaire survey was carried out on a sample of 11,919 participants from 16 countries. The results indicated that the...

Healthy Eating – A Case Study Involving Participants From Different Countries

People need to eat for physiological reasons, to ensure a proper body functioning of the cells and organs. Nevertheless, what people eat and what they choose to eat is not only influences by a basic necessity of the body, and is determines by many other factors of personal or social nature. The purpose of this study was to investigate motivation for eating healthy food in a large sample of individual from diffe...

Analysis of Governance models for sustainable and healthy food systems

Sustainable food systems are systems that safeguard economic, social and environmental sustainability by fomenting social progress, promoting efficient management of natural resources, providing nutritious food and ensuring fair compensation for all actors in the food chain. In recent years, several initiatives worldwide have been created to ensure and promote the sustainability of the current food systems. The...

Food Choice Motivations on a Sample of Portuguese Citizens

Eating is a basic necessity of the human body to be able to maintain life. The ingestions of macro and micro nutrients ensures the provision of energy and compounds essential for the functioning of the organs and cells in the human body. However, what we choose to eat is not only determined by physiological or nutritional needs, and is influenced by a high number of factors of different nature. Some of these fa...

Comparison of milk consumption habits across two European countries: Pilot stud...

Humans have been consuming milk obtained from domesticated animals since ancient times. Milk is a very complete food with important nutrients that can sup- port life. However, the patterns of consumption of milk have been shifting. On one hand, due to the increase in the number of people with intolerances (to lactose, for example), and on the other hand, due to some trend to avoid foods from animal origin owing...

Edible insects – A pilot study on how knowledge and information can be a motor ...

Sustainable and healthy diets in Portugal

Sustainability of edible insects: insights from a sample of Portuguese citizens