Consumer Behavior and Food Choice—Volume II
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensory and Consumer Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (23 April 2023) | Viewed by 116180
Special Issue Editor
Interests: marketing; consumer behavior; retailing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Given the success of the first volume of the Special Issue “Consumer behavior and food choice”, and considering that this research topic drew a great deal of attention among the scientific community and research scholars, we invite authors and potential contributors to submit their research in this area to a second volume of this Special Issue.
This second volume welcomes original research covering all aspects of consumer behavior related to food consumption, food choice, food perception and food purchase. Therefore, this volume potentially encompasses topics such as the multisensory perception of foods and food products; healthy, nutritional, or quality food choices; hedonic and functional food selection; as well as social and cultural aspects of food consumption and food choice.
Previous research highlights some of the drivers of food consumption behavior, such as health, pleasure or hedonism and functionality, but other relevant factors could also be considered, such as consumers’ underlying motivations, consumer lifestyle, cultural and social aspects, food product packaging, labelling, perceived product quality, safety and convenience.
The second volume of this Special Issue invites academics and researchers to submit high-quality original contributions and reviews on food consumer behavior, relevant issues in food consumption, food choice and food purchase decisions. Similarly, “hot topics” today in food research are welcome: consumers’ food behavior in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the acceptance and perception of GMO food products, plant-based meat consumption, the market “veggie” trend, the food safety crisis or the environmental impact and sustainability issues associated with food consumption.
Dr. Cristina Calvo-Porral
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- consumer behavior
- food choice
- food perception
- food sensory analysis
- food marketing
- food safety
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