Consumer Understanding of Food Quality, Healthiness, and Environmental Impact: A Cross-National Perspective.

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Abstract
The last few decades testify that consumers' concerns for healthier lifestyles and environment care are driving forces for reshaping food buying intentions and their perspectives on food quality. The present study identifies the importance that consumers attach to quality, health, and environment selected cues of purchased food products. More precisely, to elicit preferences for social, environmental, and qualitative food cues, a survey instrument was developed and applied on 797 Belgian and Romanian consumers. Our findings suggest that investigated consumers most frequently use freshness, taste, and appearance to evaluate food quality. The use frequency of food quality cues related to health is primarily influenced by the attention paid to food quality. The most relevant cues of food healthiness are ingredients, nutrition facts, and additives and for food environmental impact are packaging, food origin, and production type. It is concluded that food quality receives high attention both from Belgian and Romanian consumers and health and environment related cues can be used as a means of improving consumer health and environmental protection.
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Authors Petrescu, Dacinia Crina;Vermeir, Iris;Petrescu-Mag, Ruxandra Malina;
Journal International journal of environmental research and public health
Year 2019
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E169
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Romania belgium consumers food environmental impact food healthiness food quality cues food quality evaluation

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