British Food Journal: Volume 117 Issue 6

Factors influencing the decisions to buy and consume functional food

Artur Kraus

– The purpose of this paper is to identify the most important characteristics of functional foods and the motives behind its consumption.

Quality attributes of cactus pear fruit and their role in consumer choice: The case of Italian consumers

Giuseppina Migliore, Antonino Galati, Pietro Romeo, Maria Crescimanno, Giorgio Schifani

The purpose of this paper is to detect what experience and credence quality attributes contribute to the consumer decision to consume cactus pear fruit. The authors therefore try…

Driving factors-based approach for identifying performance indicators in sugarcane supply and processing systems

Thawani Mpatama Sanjika, Carel Nicolaas Bezuidenhout

The purpose of this paper is to develop and demonstrate a driving factors-based approach for identifying and ranking performance indicators in integrated sugarcane supply and…

Estimating technical efficiency of Chinese table grape wholesalers

Weihua Jiao, Zetian Fu, Weisong Mu, Xiaoshuan Zhang, Jianjun Lu, Mark Xu

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the technical efficiency of Chinese table grape wholesalers and subsequently to examine the degree to which the calculated efficiency…

Adult obesity, food access, and eating habits in Italy: an empirical analysis

Francesco Bimbo, Alessandro Bonanno, Rosaria Viscecchia

Improving access to healthy foods is currently on the European Union health policy agenda, as a means to mitigate obesity. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship…

Regional foods in Brazilian school meals

Rafaela Karen Fabri, Rossana Pacheco da Costa Proença, Suellen Secchi Martinelli, Suzi Barletto Cavalli

The purpose of this paper is to identify regional foods and analyze its use on school menus of a Brazilian city, as well as the respect to symbolic and cultural aspects related to…

Perceived sustainability initiatives: retail managers’ intrinsic and extrinsic motives

Jos Bartels, Machiel J. Reinders, Mariet Van Haaster- De Winter

Although awareness of environmental sustainability has increased over the past few decades, the current market share of sustainable products remains low. Because of their market…

How knowledgeable are high school students about food safety? Results from a predominantly minority Chicago charter school

Anne Burke, Mark Dworkin

High school students are at an age where food handling may occur for themselves and as entry level workers in food service. An estimated 21 percent of food and beverage service…

Status of prerequisite programs for the implementation of HACCP system in chain restaurants in Iran

Hamidreza Tavakkoli, Ali Zabihi, Seyed Amin Khatibi, Taha Nasiri, Leila Kaviani, Nooredin Dopeykar

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the compliance status of prerequisite programs (PRPs) and to determine the feasibility of hazard analysis and critical control point…

Best-before date – food storage temperatures recorded by Swedish students

Ingela Marklinder, Mattias K Eriksson

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the food storage temperature in Swedish household refrigerators, to determine whether students use the best-before-date label to…

Paying to see a bug on my food: How regulations and information can hamper radical innovations in the European Union

Tiziana de-Magistris, Stefano Pascucci, Dimitrios Mitsopoulos

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of the European Novel Food Regulation (ENFR) on consumers’ acceptance of and willingness to pay (WTP) for radical food…

Influence of palm oil, canola oil and blends on characteristics of fried plantain crisps

Ogan I. Mba, Marie-Josée Dumont, Michael Ngadi

The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of crude palm oil (PO), canola oil (CO) and their blends on characteristics of fried plantain crisps at two different stages of…