A cross-cultural perspective on impact of health and nutrition claims, country-of-origin and eco-label on consumer choice of new aquaculture products
Fecha de publicación
2019-04-15ISSN
0963-9969
Resumen
Over the last decade, an increasing number of new value-added aquaculture products made their way onto the European market, as a response to growing demand for healthier diet, and more sustainable and locally produced protein sources. The importance of these drivers of consumer choice for aquaculture products' acceptance paves the way for a relevant reorientation of the European aquaculture industry towards a more consumer-centred approach. This research uses discrete choice experiments to examine the effect of health and nutrition claims, country-of-origin (COO), and eco-labels on consumer choice of new aquaculture products in a cross-cultural context. Three products with different preserving methods have been chosen for the study: fresh (chilled), canned, and smoked product. Results indicate that COO label “produced in own country” together with ASC eco-label function better than the health and nutrition claims as driver of choice. Results further point to the existence of different segments of “nutrition conscious”, “ethnocentric”, “price conscious”, and “eco-conscious” consumers.
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Artículo
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Lengua
English
Materias (CDU)
663/664 - Alimentos y nutrición. Enología. Aceites. Grasas
Páginas
42
Publicado por
Elsevier
Publicado en
Food Research International
Citación
Banovic, M., Reinders, M. J., Claret, A., Guerrero, L. and Krystallis, A. Banovic, Marija, Machiel J. Reinders, Anna Claret, Luis Guerrero, and Athanasios Krystallis. 2019. "A Cross-Cultural Perspective On Impact Of Health And Nutrition Claims, Country-Of-Origin And Eco-Label On Consumer Choice Of New Aquaculture Products". Food Research International 123: 36-47. Elsevier BV. doi:10.1016/j.foodres.2019.04.031.
Número del acuerdo de la subvención
EC/FP7/603121/EU/Exploring the biological and socio-economic potential of new-emerging candidate fish species for the expansion of the European aquaculture industry/DIVERSIFY
Program
Qualitat i Tecnologia Alimentària
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