Motivations for Food Consumption during Specific Eating Occasions in Turkey

Motivations for Food Consumption during Specific Eating Occasions in Turkey

Several studies in different countries have been conducted to investigate factors affecting food choices. The objective of this study was to understand the motivations of specific food and beverage choices for different eating occasions in a typical diet of the Turkish people. A convenience sample of 141 respondents from seven different geographical regions in Turkey completed an online survey ...

Eating ‘Green’: Motivations Behind Organic Food Consumption in Australia

Eating in larger groups increases food consumption.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether children's food consumption is increased by the size of the group of children in which they are eating. DESIGN Crossover study. SETTING University based preschool. PARTICIPANTS 54 children, aged 2.5-6.5 years. INTERVENTIONS Each child ate a standardised snack in a group of three children, and in a group of nine children. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Amount each...

Does hunger and satiety drive eating anymore? Increasing eating occasions and decreasing time between eating occasions in the United States.

BACKGROUND The design of dietary, metabolic, and intervention studies should reflect the meal patterning of free-living individuals, but this design has not been systematically reviewed recently. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to examine meal-patterning trends [meals and snacks, termed eating occasions (EOs)] in a sample of US children and adults. DESIGN This was a nationally representative cr...

Linking Digital Game-Playing Motivations to Food Consumption

As gamification and digital game playing is getting more and more popular, also business-life is increasingly relying on this phenomenon for attracting different consumer groups. To illustrate, food companies are trying to find new ways to appeal customers and answer to their market demands through development of new snacks concepts. Acquiring more in-depth understanding how snacks consumption,...