... economy Ageing society Health food industry Functional foods Nutraceuticals The global population is ageing at an unprecedented rate, with the proportion of individuals aged 65 years and older steadily increasing in many parts of the world. In the Asia–Pacific region, this demographic shift...

...Kian Yeik Koay; Yu Min Ngang Purpose As consumers become more health-conscious, the demand for functional foods continues to rise. Hence, this study aims to understand the factors influencing consumers' purchase intentions for functional foods through the lens of the theory of consumption values...

... fixation patterns and information processing when evaluating health-related packaging content. Design/methodology/approach A simulated store experiment was conducted with six adult female participants who evaluated a functional food product (Kochi eggplant) while wearing an eye-tracking device...

...Shota Yabuno; Kei Sato; Koji Hara; Yuichi Mitsui; Tetsu Kobayashi Purpose This study examines the Food for Specified Health Uses (FOSHU) system in Japan, which features a unique certification logo (FOSHU seal) not present in other functional food systems and whose influence on consumer purchase...

...Berna Kurkcu; Eylem Üstünsoy; Bekir Bora Dedeoğlu Purpose This study has two main purposes. First, the effects of health anxiety and perceived social value on the intention to consume functional food were examined. Second, the role of health knowledge levels in these relationships was identified...

...Elena Horská; Kristína Predanócyová; Peter Šedík; Klaus G. Grunert; Daniela Hupková Purpose The aim of this paper is to study the consumer perception of functional foods and to identify determinants of functional foods consumption in Slovakia. Design/methodology/approach The research is based...

...Fiorella Pia Salvatore; Nino Adamashvili; Francesco Contò Purpose The main aims are underlining the role of functional foods (FFs) for population wellbeing, investigating the reasons in the self-consciousness of the different countries' populations and exploring what influences in purchasing...

...). Unlike previous research, this study considered cognitive and emotional beliefs as the factors that affected attitude. Functional foods Herbal tea Subjective norm Attitude Perceived behavioral control TPB SEM The worldwide functional food industry is proliferating. The most prominent...

...Edgar Rojas-Rivas; Angélica Espinoza-Ortega; Humberto Thomé-Ortiz; Sergio Moctezuma-Pérez Purpose Demographic and socioeconomic changes, and health issues, promote interest in emerging countries for healthy foods, taking traditional foods under the perspective of functional foods. Amaranth has...

... and Singh, 2017). Functional foods Food choices Body image dissatisfaction The aim of this work is to assess if there is a relationship between the self-declared level of body image dissatisfaction and the choice of functional foods within a food category. In assessing this relationship, we also...

... the participants responded, they were read the definition of FF provided by the Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (Instituto de Nutrición y Tecnología de los Alimentos (INTA)) (nd) accepted in Chile: “Functional foods are foods that in natural or processed form contain components that have beneficial...

...Aina Ravoniarison Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how French senior consumers deal with duality between perceived risk and perceived value associated with functional foods (FFs) and to analyze whether the risk-value trade-off may help to derive different consumer profiles...

...Berta Schnettler; Cristian Adasme-Berríos; Klaus G. Grunert; María Paulina Márquez; German Lobos; Natalia Salinas-Oñate; Ligia Orellana; José Sepúlveda Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the effect of attitudes towards functional foods (AFF) on university students’ satisfaction...

...Berta Schnettler; Horacio Miranda; German Lobos; Jose Sepulveda; Ligia Orellana; Marcos Mora; Klaus Grunert Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore differences in consumers’ willingness to purchase functional foods (FFs) in southern Chile in terms of socio-demographic characteristics...

...Ružica Brečić; Matthew Gorton; Dominique Barjolle Purpose – Drawing on a representative survey, this paper aims to identify the determinants of functional food consumption in Croatia. The objective is to introduce and test a conceptual model that four sets of factors (food choice motivations...