Pub Date : 2023-03-24DOI: 10.1080/10454446.2023.2205351
Loes Janssen, Eline A. M. Bogaert
ABSTRACT To encourage healthier food choices, an increasing number of EU governments introduced the Nutri-Score nutrition label on food package fronts. However, the label score, ranging from A (most healthy in comparison to food group alternatives) to E (least healthy), may conflict with marketing-incentivized nutrition claims that highlight positive nutritional aspects of foods (e.g., “high in fiber”) that are in fact of poor nutritional quality. To investigate how consumers respond to this discrepant front-of-pack nutritional information, we performed a 3 (Nutri-Score: A vs. E vs. absent) × 2 (Nutrition claim: present vs. absent) between-subjects experiment among 246 Dutch consumers, measuring perceived product healthiness, persuasion knowledge (i.e. critical awareness of the claim’s promotional intent), and marketing outcomes (i.e. brand attitude and purchase intention). Without a nutrition claim, breakfast cereal was perceived healthier with Nutri-Score A and less healthy with Nutri-Score E (vs. Nutri-Score absence), affecting marketing outcomes accordingly. However, in the presence of a nutrition claim (“no added sugars”), no Nutri-Score effects occurred. Nutri-Score presence was unable to interrupt the promotional effect of a concurrent nutrition claim on an E-labeled breakfast cereal. However, the more a nutrition claim was perceived as a misleading marketing attempt, the less positive its effects on consumer responses.
{"title":"Nutri-Score Vs. Nutrition Claim: The Effects of Incongruent Front-of-Pack Nutritional Information on Consumer Perceptions of Product Healthiness, Brand Attitude, and Purchase Intention","authors":"Loes Janssen, Eline A. M. Bogaert","doi":"10.1080/10454446.2023.2205351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10454446.2023.2205351","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT To encourage healthier food choices, an increasing number of EU governments introduced the Nutri-Score nutrition label on food package fronts. However, the label score, ranging from A (most healthy in comparison to food group alternatives) to E (least healthy), may conflict with marketing-incentivized nutrition claims that highlight positive nutritional aspects of foods (e.g., “high in fiber”) that are in fact of poor nutritional quality. To investigate how consumers respond to this discrepant front-of-pack nutritional information, we performed a 3 (Nutri-Score: A vs. E vs. absent) × 2 (Nutrition claim: present vs. absent) between-subjects experiment among 246 Dutch consumers, measuring perceived product healthiness, persuasion knowledge (i.e. critical awareness of the claim’s promotional intent), and marketing outcomes (i.e. brand attitude and purchase intention). Without a nutrition claim, breakfast cereal was perceived healthier with Nutri-Score A and less healthy with Nutri-Score E (vs. Nutri-Score absence), affecting marketing outcomes accordingly. However, in the presence of a nutrition claim (“no added sugars”), no Nutri-Score effects occurred. Nutri-Score presence was unable to interrupt the promotional effect of a concurrent nutrition claim on an E-labeled breakfast cereal. However, the more a nutrition claim was perceived as a misleading marketing attempt, the less positive its effects on consumer responses.","PeriodicalId":15827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Food Products Marketing","volume":"29 1","pages":"69 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44422841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-24DOI: 10.1080/10454446.2023.2206364
K. Goncikowska, K. Modlińska, D. Adamczyk, Umut Can Altuntaş, D. Maison, Wojciech Pisula
ABSTRACT Information about the content of food products affects the potential consumers’ willingness to purchase certain foodstuffs and include them in their diet. The presentation and scope of information are essential in the case of marketing specific products such as insect-based foods. The purpose of our study was to investigate the influence of information about a product’s advantages, coupled with verbal and visual information provided on the packaging, on the participants’ assessment of food containing insects. The participants (N = 659) were informed about the environmental or health benefits of ingesting insects. They were subsequently presented with a picture of a food product with different types of information about the insect content and asked to evaluate the product. The results suggest that providing images of insects on the packaging results in a lower assessment of the food containing insects. A brief presentation of the advantages of entomophagy has no impact on insect-based food assessment.
{"title":"The Influence of Various Information About Insect Content and Its Advantages on the Acceptance of Foods Containing Insects","authors":"K. Goncikowska, K. Modlińska, D. Adamczyk, Umut Can Altuntaş, D. Maison, Wojciech Pisula","doi":"10.1080/10454446.2023.2206364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10454446.2023.2206364","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Information about the content of food products affects the potential consumers’ willingness to purchase certain foodstuffs and include them in their diet. The presentation and scope of information are essential in the case of marketing specific products such as insect-based foods. The purpose of our study was to investigate the influence of information about a product’s advantages, coupled with verbal and visual information provided on the packaging, on the participants’ assessment of food containing insects. The participants (N = 659) were informed about the environmental or health benefits of ingesting insects. They were subsequently presented with a picture of a food product with different types of information about the insect content and asked to evaluate the product. The results suggest that providing images of insects on the packaging results in a lower assessment of the food containing insects. A brief presentation of the advantages of entomophagy has no impact on insect-based food assessment.","PeriodicalId":15827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Food Products Marketing","volume":"29 1","pages":"82 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48709021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-24DOI: 10.1080/10454446.2023.2202625
Teng Ma, Jingbo Zhang
ABSTRACT Most extant nutrition labeling studies examine how different nutrition labels affect consumers’ purchase intentions or how nutrition knowledge influences shoppers’ final decisions. However, most scholars have ignored that the channel of risk attitudes toward a food product may indirectly affect shoppers’ purchase intentions as a result of the health risk perception arising at the time of seeing nutrition labels. We empirically compare the effect of the Traffic Light (TL) label with the icon-only nutrition label on participants’ attitudes and health risk perceptions linked to their purchase intentions regarding a pizza product. The findings from the online experiment show that the TL label has a more significant effect on purchase intention than the icon-only nutrition label. However, this effect is different based on consumers’ health risks perception. Consumers with low health risk perception were more likely to purchase pizza, but those with high health risk perception decrease their purchases.
{"title":"Do Traffic Light Labels Influence Food Purchase Intentions? The Moderating Effect of Health Risk Perception","authors":"Teng Ma, Jingbo Zhang","doi":"10.1080/10454446.2023.2202625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10454446.2023.2202625","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Most extant nutrition labeling studies examine how different nutrition labels affect consumers’ purchase intentions or how nutrition knowledge influences shoppers’ final decisions. However, most scholars have ignored that the channel of risk attitudes toward a food product may indirectly affect shoppers’ purchase intentions as a result of the health risk perception arising at the time of seeing nutrition labels. We empirically compare the effect of the Traffic Light (TL) label with the icon-only nutrition label on participants’ attitudes and health risk perceptions linked to their purchase intentions regarding a pizza product. The findings from the online experiment show that the TL label has a more significant effect on purchase intention than the icon-only nutrition label. However, this effect is different based on consumers’ health risks perception. Consumers with low health risk perception were more likely to purchase pizza, but those with high health risk perception decrease their purchases.","PeriodicalId":15827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Food Products Marketing","volume":"29 1","pages":"56 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59697922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-03DOI: 10.1080/10454446.2023.2185118
Eluiza Alberto de Morais Watanabe, Solange Alfinito, Thaíssa Velloso Castelo Branco, Caroline Felix Raposo, Marina Athayde Barros
ABSTRACT The paper presents three studies. Study 1 identified the price charged by retailers for different types of organic produce, comparing the prices of organic and non-organic food. Studies 2 and 3 analyzed the predictors of the willingness to pay. Study 2 focused on the role of socioeconomic status, trust, health concerns, and environmental concerns. Study 3 tested the importance of the place of purchase and of labeling. The studies surveyed 917 consumers in total. The results showed that retailers charged a premium price for organic food. Most consumers are prepared to pay a premium of between 5% and 10%. Income and the presence of organic labeling are significant predictors of willingness to pay, while environmental concerns and the place of purchase are not. The results can contribute to the decision-making and the expansion of the studies about WTP for organic food in the Brazilian context, paving further studies.
{"title":"The Consumption of Fresh Organic Food: Premium Pricing and the Predictors of Willingness to Pay","authors":"Eluiza Alberto de Morais Watanabe, Solange Alfinito, Thaíssa Velloso Castelo Branco, Caroline Felix Raposo, Marina Athayde Barros","doi":"10.1080/10454446.2023.2185118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10454446.2023.2185118","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The paper presents three studies. Study 1 identified the price charged by retailers for different types of organic produce, comparing the prices of organic and non-organic food. Studies 2 and 3 analyzed the predictors of the willingness to pay. Study 2 focused on the role of socioeconomic status, trust, health concerns, and environmental concerns. Study 3 tested the importance of the place of purchase and of labeling. The studies surveyed 917 consumers in total. The results showed that retailers charged a premium price for organic food. Most consumers are prepared to pay a premium of between 5% and 10%. Income and the presence of organic labeling are significant predictors of willingness to pay, while environmental concerns and the place of purchase are not. The results can contribute to the decision-making and the expansion of the studies about WTP for organic food in the Brazilian context, paving further studies.","PeriodicalId":15827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Food Products Marketing","volume":"29 1","pages":"41 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46635686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10454446.2023.2174395
L. O’Hagan
ABSTRACT This paper historicizes our understanding of the contemporary functional beverage trend by focusing on the marketing practices of the biggest-selling “health drink” in early twentieth-century Sweden: Samarin. Drawing upon a large dataset of Samarin advertisements, it uses multimodal critical discourse analysis to track the evolution of Samarin over a 48-year period, from its launch in 1923 to the introduction of the Market Practices Act in 1971, which clamped down on false advertising. The analysis demonstrates how Samarin advertisements were continuously reshaped to capitalize upon new scientific/medical discoveries, societal changes, and public interests, tapping into evolving ideas on health and diet to remain popular with consumers. Through these constantly shifting discourses, Samarin became mythologized and framed as a “good” food choice, essential to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The findings reveal that many of these strategies are still used today, despite legislation in place that is supposed to protect consumers.
{"title":"From Fatigue Fighter to Heartburn Healer: The Evolving Marketing of a Functional Beverage in Sweden","authors":"L. O’Hagan","doi":"10.1080/10454446.2023.2174395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10454446.2023.2174395","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper historicizes our understanding of the contemporary functional beverage trend by focusing on the marketing practices of the biggest-selling “health drink” in early twentieth-century Sweden: Samarin. Drawing upon a large dataset of Samarin advertisements, it uses multimodal critical discourse analysis to track the evolution of Samarin over a 48-year period, from its launch in 1923 to the introduction of the Market Practices Act in 1971, which clamped down on false advertising. The analysis demonstrates how Samarin advertisements were continuously reshaped to capitalize upon new scientific/medical discoveries, societal changes, and public interests, tapping into evolving ideas on health and diet to remain popular with consumers. Through these constantly shifting discourses, Samarin became mythologized and framed as a “good” food choice, essential to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The findings reveal that many of these strategies are still used today, despite legislation in place that is supposed to protect consumers.","PeriodicalId":15827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Food Products Marketing","volume":"29 1","pages":"19 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46221242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1080/10454446.2022.2160223
Ronald B. Larson, B. Ferrin
ABSTRACT Retailers continue to struggle to improve product on-shelf availability (OSA). Stockouts generate significant profitability and reputation effects. This research utilizes an online survey of 1,399 U.S. adults self-reporting their reaction to a stockout of a grocery item they regularly buy. Findings indicate that perceptions of private label purchase riskiness were related to switching stores in response to stockouts. When confronted with a stockout, shoppers who patronized multiple stores each week and those manifesting short-term orientations were more likely to switch stores than buy a substitute. The switch-stores reaction was linked to three demographic attributes: race, households with children, and gender. Nonwhites were more likely to switch stores than purchase a substitute and women and households with children were less likely to switch stores than purchase a substitute. This research concludes with a discussion of options that food retailers could deploy tactics to help reduce the harmful effects of stockouts.
{"title":"Exploring Shopper Reactions to Grocery Stockouts","authors":"Ronald B. Larson, B. Ferrin","doi":"10.1080/10454446.2022.2160223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10454446.2022.2160223","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Retailers continue to struggle to improve product on-shelf availability (OSA). Stockouts generate significant profitability and reputation effects. This research utilizes an online survey of 1,399 U.S. adults self-reporting their reaction to a stockout of a grocery item they regularly buy. Findings indicate that perceptions of private label purchase riskiness were related to switching stores in response to stockouts. When confronted with a stockout, shoppers who patronized multiple stores each week and those manifesting short-term orientations were more likely to switch stores than buy a substitute. The switch-stores reaction was linked to three demographic attributes: race, households with children, and gender. Nonwhites were more likely to switch stores than purchase a substitute and women and households with children were less likely to switch stores than purchase a substitute. This research concludes with a discussion of options that food retailers could deploy tactics to help reduce the harmful effects of stockouts.","PeriodicalId":15827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Food Products Marketing","volume":"29 1","pages":"1 - 18"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42391717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-22DOI: 10.1080/10454446.2022.2150831
Elisabete Figueiredo, Teresa Forte, C. Eusébio, Alexandre Silva, M. Truninger
ABSTRACT The increasing interest of consumers in rural provenance food products is known to meet concerns regarding authenticity, health, safety, and sustainability and to be based on knowledge and familiarity. Based on the results of a survey to 1553 customers of 24 urban specialty shops, located in three Portuguese cities, this study aims at identifying different segments of consumers of rural provenance foods according to the criteria they value when acquiring and consuming those products. From a hierarchical cluster analysis based on shopping preferences, three clusters were identified: The Influenced, choosing the products mainly by recommendation; The Provenance Seekers, privileging provenance and related qualities; and The All-embracers, considering a multiplicity of criteria when shopping. These clusters differ in terms of socio-demographic profiles, products bought, consumption behavior, familiarity with rural areas, and images of food products and territories of provenance. Results show the mutual influence of these dimensions on food preferences.
{"title":"Consuming Rural Territories through Food – A Segmentation Analysis Based on the Food Choices of Urban Specialty Stores’ Customers","authors":"Elisabete Figueiredo, Teresa Forte, C. Eusébio, Alexandre Silva, M. Truninger","doi":"10.1080/10454446.2022.2150831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10454446.2022.2150831","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The increasing interest of consumers in rural provenance food products is known to meet concerns regarding authenticity, health, safety, and sustainability and to be based on knowledge and familiarity. Based on the results of a survey to 1553 customers of 24 urban specialty shops, located in three Portuguese cities, this study aims at identifying different segments of consumers of rural provenance foods according to the criteria they value when acquiring and consuming those products. From a hierarchical cluster analysis based on shopping preferences, three clusters were identified: The Influenced, choosing the products mainly by recommendation; The Provenance Seekers, privileging provenance and related qualities; and The All-embracers, considering a multiplicity of criteria when shopping. These clusters differ in terms of socio-demographic profiles, products bought, consumption behavior, familiarity with rural areas, and images of food products and territories of provenance. Results show the mutual influence of these dimensions on food preferences.","PeriodicalId":15827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Food Products Marketing","volume":"28 1","pages":"331 - 348"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45557618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-22DOI: 10.1080/10454446.2022.2150830
A. Arboleda
ABSTRACT Food gives consumers a nourishing and hedonic experience; however, paying for food and groceries creates a negative emotion that decreases consumers’ buying experience. This research uses claims to emphasize food’s nutritional or hedonic appeal, which was expected to reduce the pain of paying. This study uses a mixed model experiment to measure the pain of paying for five products (i.e., chips, juice, meat, yogurt, and apple). The information placed on the packages was the between-group conditions (nutritional, hedonic, and control). The participants responded differently to the nutritional or hedonic claims depending on the product. The hedonic claim decreased the pain of paying for meat, yogurt, and apple. Therefore, the pain of paying decreased in healthy food compared to food with intrinsic hedonic characteristics. Practical implications in food labeling are discussed.
{"title":"The Effects of Hedonic and Nutritional Claims on Consumers’ Pain of Paying","authors":"A. Arboleda","doi":"10.1080/10454446.2022.2150830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10454446.2022.2150830","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Food gives consumers a nourishing and hedonic experience; however, paying for food and groceries creates a negative emotion that decreases consumers’ buying experience. This research uses claims to emphasize food’s nutritional or hedonic appeal, which was expected to reduce the pain of paying. This study uses a mixed model experiment to measure the pain of paying for five products (i.e., chips, juice, meat, yogurt, and apple). The information placed on the packages was the between-group conditions (nutritional, hedonic, and control). The participants responded differently to the nutritional or hedonic claims depending on the product. The hedonic claim decreased the pain of paying for meat, yogurt, and apple. Therefore, the pain of paying decreased in healthy food compared to food with intrinsic hedonic characteristics. Practical implications in food labeling are discussed.","PeriodicalId":15827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Food Products Marketing","volume":"28 1","pages":"349 - 361"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44630240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10454446.2022.2137720
Jailson Lana, Maria José Barbosa de Souza, Jeferson Lana, Raul Beal Partyka
ABSTRACT Consumers follow other consumers in the pursuit of social dividends through consumption, to fit in with aspiration groups, and to belong in the group. These are conformity phenomena which is the cognitive process where an individual’s thoughts, feelings, and actions are affected by other people. This study investigates the influence of fashion and status in creating consumer conformity. Two experiments and subsequent logistic regression analyses were carried out with craft beer as an empirical field. The results show that: fashion influences consumption conformity but status is partially supported. In both, the results point to a relevant and non-trivial effect on the choice of the treatment variable. The study expands the evidence of consumption conformity and the practical applicability of the conformity stimulus to create waves of consumption, with aggregation and understanding of the formation of the craft beer consumer market.
{"title":"Tell Me What You Drink, I’ll Tell You Who You Are: Status and Fashion Effects on Consumer Conformity","authors":"Jailson Lana, Maria José Barbosa de Souza, Jeferson Lana, Raul Beal Partyka","doi":"10.1080/10454446.2022.2137720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10454446.2022.2137720","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Consumers follow other consumers in the pursuit of social dividends through consumption, to fit in with aspiration groups, and to belong in the group. These are conformity phenomena which is the cognitive process where an individual’s thoughts, feelings, and actions are affected by other people. This study investigates the influence of fashion and status in creating consumer conformity. Two experiments and subsequent logistic regression analyses were carried out with craft beer as an empirical field. The results show that: fashion influences consumption conformity but status is partially supported. In both, the results point to a relevant and non-trivial effect on the choice of the treatment variable. The study expands the evidence of consumption conformity and the practical applicability of the conformity stimulus to create waves of consumption, with aggregation and understanding of the formation of the craft beer consumer market.","PeriodicalId":15827,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Food Products Marketing","volume":"28 1","pages":"295 - 314"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43460184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10454446.2022.2137719
Antonate Akinyi Owuor, D. Otieno, J. Okello, W. Oluoch-Kosura
ABSTRACT Bio-fortified foods including orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) have been promoted worldwide as a potential mechanism to combat Vitamin A deficiency. One of the ways to promote consumption of OFSP is to process it into less perishable products with wider geographical coverage. However, there is a dearth of empirical insights on the specific attributes that consumers desire in such value-added products; this constrains sustainable investments in such initiatives. In order to fill this knowledge gap, the current study assessed consumers’ willingness to pay for OFSP juice attributes in rural and urban areas using choice experiment approach. Results showed that on average, for each liter of OFSP juice, rural consumers were willing to pay premiums of USD0.58, 0.39, 0.66, 0.75 and 0.72 respectively for the juice with OFSP only or that with OFSP and lemon as opposed to that with OFSP and mango; OFSP juice with additives; origin labeling of the OFSP juice and; joint inspection and certification of the OFSP juice rather than public inspection and certification. On the contrary, rural consumers demanded a discount of USD0.25 for involvement of private rather than public entities in the inspection and certification process. The urban consumers on the other hand, were willing to pay USD0.93, 0.82, 2.22, 0.32, 0.54 and 0.76 respectively, for juice with OFSP only or that with OFSP and lemon instead of OFSP and mango; additives, origin labeling and; private or joint inspection and certification as opposed to public inspection of the juice. These findings should inform the design of OFSP juices that meet the heterogeneous preferences of the rural and urban consumers.
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