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T1 Consumer attitudes and perceptions towards chilled ready-to-eat foods: a multi-national study
A1 Smigic, Nada
A1 Ozilgen, Sibel
A1 Gómez-López, Vicente M.
A1 Osés Gómez, Sandra María
A1 Miloradovic, Zorana
A1 Aleksic, Biljana
A1 Miocinovic, Jelena
A1 Smole Možina, Sonja
A1 Kunčič, Ajda
A1 Guiné, Raquel
A1 Gonçalves, João Carlos
A1 Trafialek, Joanna
A1 Czarniecka-Skubina, Ewa
A1 Goel, Gunjan
A1 Blazic, Marijana
A1 Herljevic, Dora
A1 Nikolić, Aleksandra
A1 Mujčinović, Alen
A1 Djekic, Ilija
A1 Djekic
K1 Consumers’ perception
K1 Chilled ready-to-eat foods
K1 Food handling
K1 Food safety
K1 Alimentos-Conservación por el frío
K1 Food-Cooling
K1 Consumidores-Conducta
K1 Consumer behavior
AB Understanding consumers’ behavior and their handling of high-risk foods at home is essential for reducing the number of foodborne illnesses. This study shows the results of a cross-national analysis of consumers’ perception from nine countries, and the identification of customers’ clusters and its characteristics in order to understand customers’ behavior, and to build safe chilled ready-to-eat (RTE) foods prevention strategies. The cluster analysis resulted in two clusters: (1) “Precautious consumers” characterized by the orientation towards pre-packed RTE foods, with consumers mainly coming from Bosnia and Herzegovina, India, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey. Their attitudes and self-reported practices may be categorized as less risky in terms of food-borne illnesses connected with the consumption of RTE foods; (2) “Unconcerned consumers” preferred cutting and slicing RTE foods freshly at the point of purchase, usually sold at the delicatessen department in a supermarket or at open markets. Those consumers mostly came from Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia and their attitudes and self-reported practices were riskier. These results allow a better understating of what characterizes consumers of RTE foods in different countries.
PB Springer
SN 1661-5751
YR 2023
FD 2023-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9799
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9799
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 22-dic-2024