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{"title":"Examining the moderation of the relationship between socio-economic status and consumption intentions by food information labels.","authors":"A E Pink, K S Stylianou, L Lee, O Jolliet, B K Cheon","doi":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.107869","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.107869","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Front-of-package-labelling needs to portray health and/or sustainability information effectively to all consumers in a way that is both effective and equitable. There is mixed evidence for the effectiveness of such labels based on socioeconomic status (SES). Framing health consequences in an intuitive manner could help to reduce disparities in label comprehension across SES. We examined whether the relationships of SES (objective and subjective) with perceived healthiness and environmental friendliness of foods is moderated by the presentation of food label information. We also examined intentions to change consumption as an outcome. Participants (N = 901, age: M = 46.62 years) from the USA completed the study online. Participants were randomly assigned to view either no information (control), standard nutrition facts (nutrition), HENI scores (health), carbon footprint scores (environment), or both HENI and carbon footprint scores (combined). Participants rated 24 foods on their perception of healthiness, environmental friendliness, and intentions to increase/decrease consumption. There was no consistent interaction effect between SES and food labels on perceived healthiness or environmental friendliness. There were also no consistent interactions of SES and food labels on intentions to change consumption. However, participants reporting higher subjective SES reported greater intentions to increase consumption of foods, regardless of their health or carbon footprint status. Overall, this preliminary research shows promise for HENI and environmental food labels as an intuitive method for portraying health and environmental information regardless of socioeconomic position.</p>","PeriodicalId":242,"journal":{"name":"Appetite","volume":" ","pages":"107869"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142997174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Why do people in the U.S. pay more for Bouillabaisse than Kaeng Som? Experimental tests of how cuisine and authenticity affect the value of food.","authors":"Rina I Horii, Alexander J Rothman","doi":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.107862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2025.107862","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The average prices of foods vary across cuisines but do these differences reflect the value people assign to different cuisines or how much they are willing to pay? Across four preregistered randomized experiments (total N=1,083), we manipulated the cuisine-of-origin (French, Thai) and authenticity (low, high) descriptions for analogous dishes across cuisines (e.g., two seafood stews: French bouillabaisse and Thai kaeng som) and restaurant review pages in Studies 2-4. Participants estimated the price in U.S. dollars (Studies 1-3) or indicated the price they would be willing to pay (Study 4). Although we did not find evidence of an authenticity effect, we observed large effects of cuisine-labeling, as dishes were estimated to be $4.47 more expensive (Studies 1-3) and participants reported being willing to pay an average of $3.83 more (Study 4) when the dish was labeled as French, rather than Thai. These findings suggest that the value assigned to different cuisines and the price that consumers are willing to pay are not based solely on objective attributes of the food, but instead may reflect and reinforce existing systemic disparities in the ways that cuisines are perceived and portrayed.</p>","PeriodicalId":242,"journal":{"name":"Appetite","volume":" ","pages":"107862"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142997037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Estimating the impacts of calorie labels in fast-food settings using a novel comparison: Comparing California drive-through and in-store purchases.","authors":"Beth C Weitzman, Lloyd Heng, Tod Mijanovich, Courtney Abrams, Pasquale E Rummo, Marie A Bragg, Erilia Wu, Emil Hafeez, Omni Cassidy, Juan A Echenique, Brian Elbel","doi":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.107864","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.107864","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prior studies assessing the impact of calorie labels in fast-food settings have relied on comparisons across local and state jurisdictions with and without labeling mandates; several well-designed studies indicate a small reduction of calories purchased as a result of the labels. This study exploits a staggered roll-out of calorie labels in California to study the same issue using a novel comparison of in-store purchases with calorie information and drive-through purchases without calorie information at the same locations. With this design, consumers in both the treatment and comparison groups have been subject to the same social signals associated with the policy change and may have been exposed to calorie information during prior purchases, narrowing the intervention under study to the impact of posted menu labels at the point of purchase. Transactions (N = 201,418,976) at 424 unique restaurants at a single fast-food chain were included and a difference-in-differences design was used to examine changes one and two years after the implementation of labels at in-store counters compared to baseline. Using this comparison of consumer purchases within the same jurisdictions, we found no meaningful impact of posted calorie labels at the point of purchase, suggesting that such labels did not induce behavioral change. Additional methods to strengthen the impact of labeling policies are worthy of further study.</p>","PeriodicalId":242,"journal":{"name":"Appetite","volume":" ","pages":"107864"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142997173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Appetite and childhood malnutrition: A narrative review identifying evidence gaps between clinical practice and research.","authors":"Alemayehu Teklu Toni, Tsinuel Girma, Marion M Hetherington, Gerard Bryan Gonzales, Ciarán G Forde","doi":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.107866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2025.107866","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) is a critical global health issue, contributing to approximately one-half of all child mortality worldwide. SAM management guidelines recommend the use of appetite assessment determined by an \"appetite test\" to distinguish between complicated and uncomplicated SAM, subsequently guiding clinical decisions regarding outpatient versus inpatient care and discharge from hospital. Despite the widespread utilization of this recommendation, its validity lacks substantial evidence within the existing literature. Hence, the aims of this narrative review were to provide an overview of the SAM diagnostic and management guideline recommendations concerning the use of appetite assessment; to review the existing knowledge base supporting this clinical practice. The review identified gaps between the clinical use of appetite assessment in SAM management and the available supporting scientific evidence. Additionally, both the opportunities and challenges associated with appetite assessment methods used in clinical practice were highlighted and discussed in relation to existing literature. Further studies with more rigorous methods are needed to bridge these gaps and formulate evidence-based clinical practice. There is also a need to adapt and validate the existing appetite assessment tools to ensure they are tailored to the specific population, setting, and primary purpose of assessing appetite in children who have already developed SAM.</p>","PeriodicalId":242,"journal":{"name":"Appetite","volume":"207 ","pages":"107866"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142997012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Child-report food insecurity assessment measures: A scoping review.","authors":"Amanda J Taylor, Sabine Baker, Danielle Gallegos","doi":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.107854","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.107854","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Experiences of household food insecurity are associated with a wide range of deleterious nutritional, developmental, psychological and social consequences for children. Children's distinct experiences of food insecurity, compared to adults, have been identified in diverse economic and cultural contexts. Yet historically, measurement of food insecurity in children has been predominantly reported by adult respondents on behalf of children, potentially underestimating prevalence and neglecting their unique perspectives. In response to this, child-report measures have been developed to assess food security status at both the individual and household level.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To identify and characterise child self-report food insecurity assessment tools used globally, with particular interest in how children's perspectives have been included in measure development processes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A scoping systematic literature review was conducted using PRISMA-ScR. Searches were conducted in four databases in January 2024 using keywords and MeSH terms. Data were extracted and synthesised relating to population and measure characteristics, validity and reliability metrics, and child involvement in measure development.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 169 papers employing child-report measures were included after screening. Most papers originated in North America, used a single-item and included children aged >12 years. Of the child-report measures identified (n = 33), most were not specifically validated in the population of use. Only a small number of included papers (n = 13) had the aim to specifically evaluate measure validity. The Child Food Insecurity Experiences Scale and Child Food Assessment Scale emerged as child-centred measures with comprehensive validity evidence.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Further child-centred validity testing, particularly with younger children (<12 years) is necessary to ensure validity of measures across age-groups and contexts. Ethical considerations when employing child-report measures, including how to best use tools across different child settings also warrant further exploration.</p>","PeriodicalId":242,"journal":{"name":"Appetite","volume":" ","pages":"107854"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142997171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"We are a family! Exploring flexitarian households' meat reduction practices.","authors":"A P J Pieter Groen, Vincenzo Fogliano, L P A Bea Steenbekkers","doi":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.107860","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.107860","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is widely accepted that the (over)consumption of meat is negatively linked to environmental problems and public health issues, yet research shows that actual meat consumption remains (too) high. While most research related to the protein transition focuses on consumers' motivations, perceptions and acceptance towards plant-based meat alternatives, a clear need arises to extensively study the context in which (plant-based) meals are consumed. In this research, a generative research approach was applied to extend knowledge on flexitarian households' meat reduction practices. Participants (n = 30) from different household types completed assignments with their household members to reflect on their households' meat consumption and reduction practices over the course of a full week. After this sensitizing week, participants were interviewed about their meat reduction practices. Results show that participants high in cooking skills and interest are searching for, or have developed, a practice of reformulating their meals into 'complete' or 'authentic' vegetarian meals which entails a different culinary experience compared to meat-based meals. They usually avoided meat analogues, and used products such as pulses, cheeses, nuts and herbs to create tasty and satiating 'complete' vegetarian meals. However, participants with less available resources like time and skills used meat analogues as convenient replacers of meat. Partners and children had a strong influence on the households' formation of meat reduction practices, as their preferences resulted in compromises regarding the households' meat consumption frequency and types of meals consumed. In conclusion, this research provides unique insights into flexitarian households' meat reduction practices, and fuels the discussion on the role of meat analogues and the consumers' need for 'complete' and 'authentic' vegetarian meal experiences.</p>","PeriodicalId":242,"journal":{"name":"Appetite","volume":" ","pages":"107860"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142976710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How can consumer science help the foodservice industry replace meat? A critical review.","authors":"Iuri Baptista, Emma Garnett, Åsa Öström","doi":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.107861","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.107861","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the pursuit of more sustainable diets, researchers have been studying ways to promote a transition from animal-based to plant-based meals in foodservice contexts by influencing participants' conscious choices through names, labels, claims, and information. This critical review found that these interventions usually mobilize only those already engaged in reducing the consumption of animal products and often only during the intervention period, failing to influence those who eat most meat or to create long-lasting effects. Analyzing the choice for vegetarian meals against meals with meat in recently published studies conducted in foodservice contexts, we argue that the transition to more sustainable diets should rely less on consumers' willpower and more on public policies and institutional measures that change the availability, price, and visibility of plant-based meals. Inspired by behavioral sciences, this paper discusses interventions that challenge meals with meat as the default option and suggests hybrids as a path to increase the availability, convenience, and sensory familiarity of vegetarian meals. The paper ends with proposals for questions, interventions, metrics, and issues to be researched by consumer science, including questions on the degree of freedom of consumers' choice and what would be the ethical limits to telling half the truth about hybrids.</p>","PeriodicalId":242,"journal":{"name":"Appetite","volume":" ","pages":"107861"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142976766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Increased BMI is associated with an altered decision-making process during healthy food choices in males and females.","authors":"Larenas G, Luarte L, Kerr B, Ossandón T, Cortés V, Baudrand R, Pérez Leighton C","doi":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.107859","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.107859","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Unhealthy diets (rich in calories, sugar, fat, and sodium) are a major cause of obesity. Why individuals struggle to make healthy food choices remains unclear. This study examined how body mass index, biological sex, and eating context influence food attribute perception, the food choice process, and the percentage of healthy food choices. In an online study, males and females with and without obesity (n = 910) rated food images for healthiness and tastiness and made food choices after prompts directing them to choose foods they considered healthy (healthy prompt) or to choose as they would in their daily lives (typical prompt), which aimed to model healthy and typical eating contexts. When foods were classified as healthy or unhealthy using nutritional labeling information, all participants rated healthy foods with larger healthiness ratings, but females rated healthy foods as healthier and tastier than males. Still, participants with obesity had fewer healthy choices (i.e., choosing the food with the largest healthiness rating) regardless of sex and prompt. Further, tastiness differences were more relevant than healthiness differences during healthy food choices among participants with obesity, and more so after the typical prompt. On the contrary, healthiness differences were more relevant among participants with healthy weight regardless of prompt type. Our findings highlight the importance of eating contexts in how individuals use their perception of food attributes during healthy food choices and suggest that increasing the presence of healthy prompts and perceived tastiness of healthy foods may promote healthy food choices among individuals with obesity.</p>","PeriodicalId":242,"journal":{"name":"Appetite","volume":" ","pages":"107859"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142976775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Healthiness, appearance, or fashion? The drivers behind the sushi popularity in Italy.","authors":"Carla Cavallo, Ahmed Saidi, Gianni Cicia, Rossella Di Monaco, Teresa Del Giudice, Valentina Carfora","doi":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.107857","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.107857","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Italy is witnessing an unprecedented success for sushi even if Italian consumers have a historical reluctance towards eating raw fish. It is important to understand what is behind this major shift in preferences, since it may set an example for the process of adoption of global products and/or diets. To this aim, we investigated which food motives drive sushi consumption (i.e., health, mood, convenience, sensory appeal, natural content, price, weight control, familiarity, and ethical concern), including also individual factors (i.e., social norms, food neophobia, traceability) on a national representative sample of 798 consumers. Data analysis yielded that social norms were the main drivers behind sushi consumption, while sensory appeal, price and neophobia reduced sushi frequency consumption. Traceability was associated with naturalness, and ethical concern, and hindered sushi consumption frequency. These results may pave the way for forthcoming marketing strategies and policies aimed at promoting the consumption of novel, healthy and sustainable food.</p>","PeriodicalId":242,"journal":{"name":"Appetite","volume":" ","pages":"107857"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142968853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sociodemographic and behavioural determinants of vegetarian main dish selection in a French university cafeteria: A three-month observational study with repeated measures.","authors":"Laura Arrazat, Fanny Teil, Sophie Nicklaus, Lucile Marty","doi":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.107856","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.appet.2025.107856","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reducing meat consumption is crucial for improving population and planetary health. Millions of students regularly eat at university cafeterias, which offer a unique opportunity to promote meat-free meals to new generations by addressing barriers such as accessibility, price, and cooking skills. This study aimed to analyse the individual characteristics associated with the proportion of vegetarian main dish choices in a university cafeteria and to determine whether this behaviour influenced the nutritional quality and environmental impact of student meals. A sample of 257 French students who ate regularly at a large university cafeteria took part in an observational study with repeated measures. They took pictures of their meal trays each time they ate at the cafeteria for three months. They completed an online questionnaire to assess their sociodemographic characteristics and various behavioural determinants of the choice of a vegetarian main dish based on the Capability, Opportunity, Motivation Behaviour (COM-B) framework. Being a woman was the only sociodemographic characteristic significantly associated with more frequent vegetarian main dish selection. The proportion of vegetarian choices was negatively associated with attachment to meat (p < 0.001, η² = 0.189) and positively associated with environmental knowledge (p = 0.034, η² = 0.018) and the following food choice motives: animal welfare (p < 0.001, η² = 0.062), health (p < 0.001, η² = 0.044), ethics (p = 0.002, η² = 0.039), natural content (p = 0.010, η² = 0.026), religion (p = 0.014, η² = 0.025), and mood (p = 0.022, η² = 0.020). Students who chose vegetarian main dishes more frequently composed healthier (p = 0.023, η² = 0.020) and more environmentally friendly meal trays (p < 0.001, η² = 0.349). These findings highlight the variability in the students' propensity to choose vegetarian main dishes in a university cafeteria and its association with motivational factors in a food environment bound by design.</p>","PeriodicalId":242,"journal":{"name":"Appetite","volume":" ","pages":"107856"},"PeriodicalIF":4.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142968860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}