Summary
The interest of consumers is the consumption of healthy food, whereas the interest of food manufacturers is that consumers recognize the produced “healthier” food items on the shelves, so they can satisfy their demands. This way, identifying the factors that influence the perceived healthiness of food products is a mutual interest. What causes consumers to consider one product more beneficial to health than another? In recent years, numerous studies have been published on the topic of the influence of several health-related factors on consumer perception. This analysis collected and categorized the research results related to this question. This review collects 59 articles with the help of the search engines Science Direct, Wiley Online Library, MDPI and Emerald Insight between 1 January 2014 and 31 March 2019. Our paper yielded six separate categories that influence consumers in their perception of the healthiness of food items: the communicated information—like FoP labels and health claims, the product category, the shape and colour of the product packaging, the ingredients of the product, the organic origin of the product, and the taste and other sensory features of the product.
Outcomes reported
Referenced by Cambridge UPF young adults as citation 48; likely supports topic area: obesity / chronic disease / public health; nutrient cycling / nitrogen / phosphorus / eutrophication. Topics: nutrient cycling / nitrogen / phosphorus / eutrophication; obesity / chronic disease / public health Evidence type: Review / synthesis Source report: Cambridge UPF young adults Ref#: Cambridge UPF young adults #48 Original: Plasek B, Lakner Z, Temesi Á. Factors that influence the perceived healthiness of food-review. Nutrients 2020;12:1881.
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