BACKGROUND Those of lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to have less healthy diets than those of higher SES. This study aimed to assess whether differences in motivations for particular foods might contribute to socioeconomic differences in consumption. METHODS Participants (n = 732) rated their frequency of consumption and explicit liking of fruit, cake and cheese. They reported eating mot...

BACKGROUND There are few objective data on how nutrition labels are used in real-world shopping situations, or how they affect dietary choices and patterns. DESIGN The Starlight study was a four-week randomised, controlled trial of the effects of three different types of nutrition labels on consumer food purchases: Traffic Light Labels, Health Star Rating labels, or Nutrition Information Pane...

happy feeling has essential role in life of human beings during the generations. people always try to pass their life with satisfactions and happiness and to be adopted themselves.on this base we have done two different statistical analyses. at first we studied different relational samples with nature and happiness indicators in 250 ordinary people (community) through social network application...

Consumers face myriad food products in supermarkets, obviating consideration of all options. are likely to direct scarce attention they believe will provide them the best outcome. However, consumers may hold inaccurate beliefs—particularly about health attributes which can lead omit items from that would have optimally considered We examine how consumers’ beliefs relative price, taste, and heal...

BACKGROUND Colour coded front-of-pack nutrition labelling ('traffic light labelling') has been recommended for use in the UK since 2006. The voluntary scheme is used by all the major retailers and some manufacturers. It is not clear how consumers use these labels to make a single decision about the relative healthiness of foods. Our research questions were: Which of the four nutrients on UK tra...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the proportionality market brand (MB) foods versus supermarket own (OB) sold on promotion and compare their healthiness. Design/methodology/approach An existing dataset containing nutritional information about a variety ( n = 6,776) from 48 stores across 8 retail chains in Northern Ireland (NI) was reanalysed. Product healthiness measured usin...