Brazilian Food Truck Consumers’ Profile, Choices, Preferences, and Food Safety Importance Perception

Consumers' Food Choices: Implications for Marketers

Consumers' choices among foods today are influenced by a wider variety of economic and non-economic factors than ever before. These factors must be understood and forecast by marketers who, facing increasing competition in all markets, must prepare for, not simply react to, inevitable marketplace change. Economists typically have relied on four types of variables to predict food demand: consume...

Food choices during Ramadan

Few studies have assessed the dietary Practices of people with diabetes during Ramadan (1). A sub study of Ramadan prospective diabetes study (2) which was conducted at the outpatient department of Baqai Institute of Diabetology and endocrinology, Karachi Pakistan in 2009 analyzed the food choices of patients with diabetes during Ramadan. Several irregularities regarding dietary intake and food...

Food choices and preferences of schoolchildren.

The Impact of Food Stamp Program on Relative Food Consumption and Food Choices

  I n this paper, the effects of the Food Stamp (FS) Program (now referred to as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-SNAP) on individuals’ food choices are evaluated. In other words, I examine how households' food choice or relative food consumption is changed by FS participation. For this purpose six food groups are created using 2016 Consumer Expenditure Diary Surv...

Global Food Safety—International Consumers’ Rights?

Your submissions to this Special Issue "Food Microbiology and Safety" of Foods-a new open access journal-are welcome. We understand there are no foodborne illness-free zones in the world. Therefore, a proper understanding of foodborne pathogens and the factors that impact their growth, survival and pathogenesis would equip us with tools to ensure global food safety. This Special Issue publishes...