**Preface to "Public Awareness of Food Products, Preferences and Practices"**

This reprint is the result of a Special Issue that took place in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) during 2022-2023. The general topic of the reprint discusses the different uses, protection and promotion of food, always from a broad perspective, through 15 innovative research papers, from both qualitative and quantitative methodological approaches.

This subject is relevant for various reasons: on the one hand, because of its interdisciplinarity; on the other hand, due to the multiplicity of topics and approaches. But, in any case, all of them focus on food, as a complex aspect of human life, which affects all people at all ages and at all times of life.

The articles published in this reprint reproduce the format and order in which they were published in the original Special Issue. Their joint publication, however, provides an overview that is useful and relevant for people interested in these issues. Issues, by the way, that have not yet received enough attention from interdisciplinary and open perspectives. This reprint tries, albeit insufficiently, to fill a part of this void.

> **F. Xavier Medina, Francesc Fust´e-Forn´e, and Nela Filimon** *Editors*
