The inherent safety, convenience, availability, nutritional content, aesthetic appeal, and variety that typify our food supplies are a hallmark of modern life, but this was not always the case. For the last 100 years we have been witnessing dramatic advances in the scientific understanding and engineering techniques that increase agricultural production and allow for the commercial-scale produc...

Little is known about toddler feeding practices, particularly among Mexican American mothers. A convenience sample of 18 Mexican-American mothers with toddlers participated in individual in-depth interviews. In determining what to feed her child, mothers tended to cater to the child's preferences rather than exposing the child to different foods or repeating attempts to feed previously unaccept...

BACKGROUND Poor cooking skills may be a barrier to healthy eating and a contributor to overweight and obesity. Little population-representative data on adult cooking skills has been published. We explored prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of cooking skills among adult respondents to wave 1 of the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey (2008-9). METHODS Socio-demographic variables of ...

Customer relationship management (CRM) is an integrated approach that manages a company’s interactions with the existing and future customers. It helps to identify, acquire and maintain customers for successful growth of the business. A CRM model use smart technology for organizing, automating, synchronizing sales, customer service, marketing, and technical support. CRM has as its aim the enhan...

American Samoa, one of the U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands, has documented the highest prevalence of adults with obesity (75%) in the world. The nutritionally poor food and beverage environment of food retail venues has been suspected to be a contributing factor, although an evaluation of these venues in American Samoa has not been conducted. In January 2014, American Samoa established an Obesi...

The interest of this study is the tradeoff between nutrition and taste in consumer food choice. We examine choice between more and less healthy versions of particular foods within four important grocery categories: breakfast cereal, milk, bread, and soft drinks. Within a category, products do not greatly differ in terms of cost and convenience, and nutritional differences are easily determined....

Processing of foods is a segment of manufacturing industry that transforms animal, plant, and marine materials into intermediate or finished value-added food products that are safer toeat.This requires theapplicationof labor, energy, machinery, and scientific knowledge to a step (unit operation) or a series of steps (process) in achieving the desired transformation (Heldman & Hartel, 1998). Val...

Research Aims: To examine the intrinsic and extrinsic factors affecting consumers’ attitudes toward Japanese-made frozen foods and, hence, purchasing behaviour. Design/Methodology/Approach: Consumers who were aware of sample chosen. Convenience sampling plus a cross-sectional, self-administered online survey questionnaire collected data from 307 participants. Findings: Findings showed that bran...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the proportion of foods that are unhealthy to which children are exposed at the checkout of convenience supermarkets. DESIGN We performed a cross-sectional survey of foodstuffs displayed at the checkout. Products displayed at or below children's eye-level were designated as healthy, unhealthy or unclassifiable using the Food Standards Agency's scoring criteria. SETT...