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Insights into parents' and teachers' support for policies promoting increased p...
Roque, L.; Campos, L.; Guedes, D.; Godinho, C.; Truninger, M.; Graça, J.Global environmental and public health challenges related to current food systems call for large-scale shifts towards increasingly plant-based diets, especially in Western meat-centric societies. School meal systems can play a role in these changes due to their widespread prevalence and multi-sectoral impact. However, there is a lack of evidence about how adults involved in the school meals system perceive scho...
Assessing learning about food safety using Personal Meaning Maps
Silva, A.; Junqueira, L.; Truninger, M.; Delicado, A.; Csenki, E.; Fehér, Á.; Ózsvári, L.; Szakos, D.Objective: According to the World Health Organisation’s estimates, food contamination is linked to 23 million cases of illness and 5,000 deaths per year in Europe. While changes in food production and distribution play an important role in managing contamination risk, foodborne illnesses can originate in food-handling practices at home. This study aimed to assess how a food safety education initiative in which ...
How to enable healthier and more sustainable food practices in collective meal ...
Graça, J.; Campos, L.; Guedes, D.; Roque, L.; Brazão, V.; Truninger, M.; Godinho, C.Collective meal contexts such as restaurants, cafeterias and canteens can help accelerate transitions to healthier and more sustainable diets. However, evidence from intervention studies on these contexts lacks integration. This scoping review aimed to map determinants of dietary change in collective meal contexts across multiple settings, interventions, target groups, and target behaviors. The review provided ...
Promoting plant-based eating in meat-centric meal contexts: A field study
Guedes, D.; Brazão, V.; Roque, L.; Campos, L.; Godinho, C.; Truninger, M.; Vinnari, M.; Graça, J.Objective: Shifting from meat-centric to plant-rich diets may help to enable healthier and more sustainable food systems. Here we present the results of a 1-week intervention to promote plant-based eating in a meat-centric food context (i.e. canteen). Design: The intervention included environmental restructuring strategies (e.g. promotional materials and menu redevelopment) and improvements to the offer of plan...
Teaching young consumers in Europe: a multicentre qualitative needs assessment ...
Eley, C.; Lundgren, P. T.; Kasza, G.; Truninger, M.; Brown, C.; Hugues, V. L.; Izso, T.; Teixeira, P.; Syeda, R.; Ferré, N.; Kunszabo, A.; Nunes, C.Aim: Foodborne illnesses have a significant global burden and can be life-threatening, with higher risk in vulnerable groups such as children. SafeConsume is an EU-funded, transdisciplinary project aiming to improve consumers’ food safety behaviour. Developing educational resources on food safety for use in schools has potential to improve teaching of our young consumers. The aim of this study was to explore sc...
Self-reported practices by Portuguese consumers regarding eggs’ safety: An anal...
Junqueira, L.; Truninger, M.; Almli, V. L.; Ferreira, V.; Maia, R. L.; Teixeira, P.In Europe, salmonellosis has been ranked as the second leading cause of hospitalization and death due to the consumption of contaminated food. Information about consumers’ food safety perception, knowledge and practices in the domestic environment is lacking in order to define the main intervention opportunities to obtain a significant reduction in the occurrence of foodborne salmonellosis. We conducted an on-l...
Plant-based school meals as levers of sustainable food transitions: A narrative...
Roque, L.; Graça, J.; Truninger, M.; Guedes, D.; Campos, L.; Vinnari, M.; Godinho, C.Current food systems face immediate and complex challenges in feeding a growing global population. It is necessary to mitigate the environmental impact of food systems while ensuring food security across the globe. Drawing on the example of recent multi-sectoral approaches which focus on the interconnections between public health and the environment, this work offers a narrative review and broader conceptual fr...
Enabling sustainable food transitions in schools: A systemic approach
Graça, J.; Roque, L.; Guedes, D.; Campos, L.; Truninger, M.; Godinho, C.; Vinnari, M.Purpose Recent reviews and reports have highlighted the need for integrated, context-specific efforts to enable sustainable food transitions. This study aimed to identify pathways to promote healthier and more environmentally friendly food practices in school contexts, with a focus on increased plant-based eating. Design/methodology/approach The study used a systemic approach with data collected from relevant s...
European food safety: mapping critical food practices and cultural differences ...
Skuland, S. E.; Borda, D.; Didier, P.; Dumitraşcu, L.; Ferreira, V.; Foden, M.; Truninger, M.; Teixeira, P.How is food handled in safe and unsafe ways from retail to fork in European households? This is the overall research question raised in this report. The aim of this report is to contribute to an in-depth, detailed, empirical and nuanced analysis of how food is handled in everyday life in five European countries: France, Norway, Portugal, Romania and the UK. The first chapters (Part 1) describe the food cultural...
Consumption orientations may support (or hinder) transitions to more plant-base...
Graça, J.; Truninger, M.; Junqueira, L.; Schmidt, L.There have been increasing calls for triggering and sustaining a large-scale transition toward healthier and more sustainable food systems. To help materialize this transition, the present work aims to inform efforts for developing, marketing and promoting plant-based meals and plant-forward lifestyles, following a consumption-focused approach. The findings (Nparticipants = 1600, Portugal; 52.6% female, Mage = ...