Food Choice Determinants and Perceptions of a Healthy Diet among Italian Consumers
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Resumo: | Healthy food choices are crucial for a healthy lifestyle. However, food choices are complex and affected by various factors. Understanding the determinant factors affecting food choices could aid policy-makers in designing better strategies to promote healthy food choices in the general public. This study aims to evaluate the food choice motivations and to segment consumer groups, according to their food choice motivations, in a sample of 531 Italian consumers (collected by convenience sampling), through offline and online survey platforms. K-means cluster analysis was applied to identify consumer groups using six food choice motivation categories (health, emotional, economic and availability, social and cultural, environmental and political, and marketing and commercial). The results suggest that the strongest determinants for the food choices of Italian consumers are Environmental factors and Health. Two consumer profiles were identified through the segmentation analysis: Emotional eating and Health-driven consumers. The respondents were found to have a good awareness of what comprises a healthy diet. There is a potential market for healthy and sustainable food products, especially products with minimal or environmentally friendly packages. Food labels and information strategies could be promoted as tools to assist consumers to make healthy food choices. |
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Food Choice Determinants and Perceptions of a Healthy Diet among Italian Consumers |
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Food Choice Determinants and Perceptions of a Healthy Diet among Italian Consumers |
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Food Choice Determinants and Perceptions of a Healthy Diet among Italian Consumers Wongprawmas, Rungsaran Food choices Eating determinants Healthy diet Emotions |
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Food Choice Determinants and Perceptions of a Healthy Diet among Italian Consumers |
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Food Choice Determinants and Perceptions of a Healthy Diet among Italian Consumers |
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Food Choice Determinants and Perceptions of a Healthy Diet among Italian Consumers |
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Food Choice Determinants and Perceptions of a Healthy Diet among Italian Consumers |
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Food Choice Determinants and Perceptions of a Healthy Diet among Italian Consumers |
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Wongprawmas, Rungsaran |
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Wongprawmas, Rungsaran Mora, Cristina Pellegrini, Nicoletta Guiné, Raquel P. F. Carini, Eleonora Sogari, Giovanni Vittadini, Elena |
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Mora, Cristina Pellegrini, Nicoletta Guiné, Raquel P. F. Carini, Eleonora Sogari, Giovanni Vittadini, Elena |
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Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Viseu |
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Wongprawmas, Rungsaran Mora, Cristina Pellegrini, Nicoletta Guiné, Raquel P. F. Carini, Eleonora Sogari, Giovanni Vittadini, Elena |
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Food choices Eating determinants Healthy diet Emotions |
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Food choices Eating determinants Healthy diet Emotions |
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Healthy food choices are crucial for a healthy lifestyle. However, food choices are complex and affected by various factors. Understanding the determinant factors affecting food choices could aid policy-makers in designing better strategies to promote healthy food choices in the general public. This study aims to evaluate the food choice motivations and to segment consumer groups, according to their food choice motivations, in a sample of 531 Italian consumers (collected by convenience sampling), through offline and online survey platforms. K-means cluster analysis was applied to identify consumer groups using six food choice motivation categories (health, emotional, economic and availability, social and cultural, environmental and political, and marketing and commercial). The results suggest that the strongest determinants for the food choices of Italian consumers are Environmental factors and Health. Two consumer profiles were identified through the segmentation analysis: Emotional eating and Health-driven consumers. The respondents were found to have a good awareness of what comprises a healthy diet. There is a potential market for healthy and sustainable food products, especially products with minimal or environmentally friendly packages. Food labels and information strategies could be promoted as tools to assist consumers to make healthy food choices. |
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