... that should be emphasised in future nutrition intervention studies. The cookbook was perceived to be an effective facilitator to improve the consumption of whole grains in Malaysia. The researchers anticipate that the study findings may improve whole-grain consumption among the Malaysian population...

...Sook Fern Yeo; Cheng Ling Tan; Irene Yoke Chu Leong; Dario Natale Palmucci; Yu Jian Then Purpose This study aims to investigate the factors that influence young consumers' purchase intention towards dietary supplements (DS) in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach The supplement industry...

... ; Arnold et al., 2021). Interestingly, the concept of functional food is not specified since different countries have different definitions of functional food (Alzamora et al., 2005). Notwithstanding, poor eating habits are one of the biggest concerns in Malaysia. Poor nutrition...

... disability. Adolescent Focus group Physical activity Sedentary Malaysia Intervention Qualitative Facilitator Barrier Obesity and overweight, which are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health (World Health Organization (WHO), 2000), have become a global...

...-certified food supplies. Design/methodology/approach This study used a quantitative methodology of convenience sampling to collect survey data from 1,550 Muslim respondents in Malaysia. It also employed multiple regressions by covariance-based structural equation modelling in the data analysis as well...

...Mumtaz Ali Memon; Muhammad Zeeshan Mirza; Bibiana Lim; Waheed Ali Umrani; Mohamed Ayyub Hassan; Tat Huei Cham; Khurram Shahzad Purpose International students are considered as a huge and potentially lucrative segment for various products of the tourism industry in Malaysia. One of the tourism...

...Foong Ming Moy; Abd Aziz Alias; Rohana Jani; Hishamuddin Abdul Halim; Wah Yun Low Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the level of food safety practices and their determinants among youths in the city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach An online cross-sectional...

... , k = 1 , 2 , … , K Nurul Aisyah Binti Mohd Suhaimi can be contacted at: nurul.suhaimi@wur.nl 18 11 2016 31 03 2017 31 03 2017 The demand for dairy products in the Asian region (including Malaysia) has doubled over the past decade. Currently, Malaysia...

...Sing Chuan Kok; Che Wan Jasimah Mohamed Radzi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the prepackaged foods in Malaysia are able to provide credible nutrition labels for consumers and how many prepackaged foods do not comply with the tolerance limits, regardless of whether...

... in the Divine Book the Qur’an, notably pigs. Figure 1 shows the extent and interdependence of halal food integrity in the SC. The figure highlights that if at any point in the SC the halal status of a food is compromised (red coloured), it will affect all following stages of the SC. Malaysia Halal Food...

...Baharudin Othman; Sharifudin Md Shaarani; Arsiah Bahron Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the level of knowledge, halal dietary quality assurance practices, and commitment among food industries in the implementation of halal in Malaysia. Besides, the study was based on two...

...Elahe Fathi; Suhaiza Zailani; Mohammad Iranmanesh; Kanagi Kanapathy Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that motivate the consumers in Malaysia to pay for halal logistics and its consequences on their demand for halal logistics certification. Design/methodology...

... into the socio-demographic and lifestyle factors significantly associated with nutrition label use among Malaysian adults. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Malaysia Demographics Lifestyles Nutrition labelling Data from the Third National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS III...

...Suhaiza Zailani; Kanagi Kanapathy; Mohammad Iranmanesh; Marco Tieman Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that motivate the halal food firms in Malaysia to practice halal orientation strategy (HOS). Design/methodology/approach – Data were obtained from a survey...

...Norshamliza Chamhuri; Peter J Batt Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to gain an understanding of the quality cues that consumers look for in purchasing fresh meat and fresh fruit and vegetables in Malaysia. Through a perceived quality model, this paper identifies the implicit, intrinsic...

... logistics in a Muslim and non‐Muslim country. Design/methodology/approach This is a comparative study involving Muslim consumers in Malaysia and The Netherlands. Cross‐sectional data were collected through a survey with 251 Muslims in Malaysia and 250 Muslims in The Netherlands. Data were analysed...

... to treat suppliers as a homogeneous group when identifying motivations, strategies and incentives to enhance the quality of buyer‐seller relationships. This article aims to explore the role of long‐term relationships between buyers and sellers in Malaysia's dairy industry, taking into consideration...

... The exploratory model was developed to illustrate how the main three ethnic groups in Malaysia manage their values in terms of functional food consumption. The results showed that participants did not spend much time consciously considering their consumption choices or their values until they were faced...

..., and Asian culture and management. The research project presented in the paper was initially designed to obtain case study information on a number of foreign food companies which had invested in Malaysia, especially in terms of their strategic approaches, investment bases and market share achievement...