British Food Journal: Volume 117 Issue 5

Consumer awareness, perception and attitudes towards genetically modified foods in Turkey

Mürsel Tas, Melek Balci, Alev Yüksel, Nese Sahin Yesilçubuk

– The purpose of this paper is to evaluate awareness and perception of GM foods of Turkish consumers living in Istanbul, Turkey.

Consumers’ WTP for certified traceable tea in China

Xiaolin Liu, Lingling Xu, Dian Zhu, Linhai Wu

– The purpose of this paper is to examine consumer attitudes toward and willingness to pay (WTP) for traceability of tea in China.

Willingness to purchase functional foods according to their benefits: Consumer profiles in Southern Chile

Berta Schnettler, Horacio Miranda, German Lobos, Jose Sepulveda, Ligia Orellana, Marcos Mora, Klaus Grunert

The purpose of this paper is to explore differences in consumers’ willingness to purchase functional foods (FFs) in southern Chile in terms of socio-demographic characteristics…

Understanding the purchasing behaviour of Taiwanese meat consumers in light of rising sustainability concerns

Meng Yuan Jen, Shun-mei Wang

The purpose of this paper is to provide an exploratory study of how Taiwanese consumer concerns about sustainability issues relating to pork are linked to their purchasing…

Segmenting CSA members by motivation: anything but two peas in a pod

Antoinette Pole, Archana Kumar

– The purpose of this paper is to seek to segment CSA members based on their motivations to join a CSA.

EU organic logo and its perception by consumers

Katrin Zander, Susanne Padel, Raffaele Zanoli

With the introduction of the mandatory European Union (EU) organic logo for all organic food products in 2010, the European Commission aimed at fostering the internal organic food…

Is there an expectation gap? Consumers’ expectations towards organic: An exploratory survey in mature and emerging European organic food markets

Marie von Meyer-Höfer, Sina Nitzko, Achim Spiller

While the European organic regulation exists since more than 20 years consumers still do not seem to know what to expect from European Union (EU) labelled organic food. The…

Message framing and consumer responses to organic seafood labeling

Courtney Cucchiara, Soyeon Kwon, Sejin Ha

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of different label-message formats (positively vs negatively framed messages) on consumers’ purchase intentions in an organic…

Different or similar? Acceptability of aseptic-packaged cooked rice among consumers, researchers and experts

Han Sub Kwak, Misook Kim, Yoonhwa Jeong

The purpose of this paper is to compare the acceptance ratings and drivers of liking and disliking attributes of aseptic-packaged cooked rice by consumers, researchers and…

General image of and beliefs about European food in two mainland Chinese cities: Shanghai and Xi’an

Ou Wang, Xavier Gellynck, Wim Verbeke

– The purpose of this paper is to provide a picture of the current image and consumer beliefs of European food in mainland Chinese consumers’ minds.

Food exporters and co-opetition relationships: an analysis on the vegetable supply chain

Emilio Galdeano-Gómez, Juan Carlos Pérez-Mesa, Cynthia Lynn Giagnocavo

The purpose of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the influence of co-opetition on food exporting in different distribution channels, taking as reference the vegetable…

Salt, chefs, and public health: an exploratory investigation of hospitality professionals’

Douglas W. Murray, Heather Hartwell, Charles H. Feldman, Meena Mahadevan

Public health policy has long called for significant reductions in salt intake. To date most research has been confined to processed foods. This approach fails to include the…