... development Ireland Convenience foods Personal health Nutrition Consumers demand for health and convenience is reflected in the growing number of nutritionally beneficial snack products available on the market in recent years. In 2009, the global market for healthy snack foods was estimated...

... (such as “why is […] important to you?”), and the subsequent response probed using the same phrase until the line of questioning can no longer continue. Margot Skinner can be contacted at: margot.skinner@plantandfood.co.nz © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Women Food Personal health...

... in Taiwan and tests for the impacts of modern tainted foods worries and gender. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Health and Taste Attitude Scales Modern tainted foods worries Gender Personal health Food products Taiwan Attitudes Contamination One‐way ANOVA tests were carried...

... Soymilk Lactobacilli Proteolytic Micro‐organisms Personal health Food products MRS broth containing fermented lactobacilli cultures and agrowaste immobilizers were centrifuged at 12,000 × g for 15 min. The pellets obtained were washed twice with sterile peptone (2 percent w/v) and introduced...

... the role of sunflower seeds as nutritional and nutraceutical package. Muhammad Issa Khan can be contacted at: issa1395@hotmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Sunflower seeds Antioxidants Nutraceutical Nutritional Health foods Personal health Food crops Nutrition...

... Tea Coffee Demographics Health Lifestyles Personal health United Kingdom Consumer behaviour Drinks Tea and coffee consumption are almost ubiquitous and caffeine is the most widely consumed psychoactive drug in the world (Barone and Roberts, 1996 ; Gilbert, 1984). Both tea and coffee...

... Fruits Diet Nutrition Personal health Iran In recent years, increase in life expectancy, and interest in human health, nutrition and disease prevention, has enlarged consumers' demand for functional foods (Rupasinghe and Clegg, 2007). Functional foods contain components active in disease...

.../value To date, economic impact of food allergy on individuals and households has not been quantified. The paper addresses this. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Economics Personal health Research and development The Netherlands United Kingdom The severity of food allergy...

... supplement industries interested in possible beneficial effects of a milk phospholipid product on memory and mental stress. Juliane Hellhammer can be contacted at: hellhammer@daacro.de © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Cognition Food additives Personal health Proteins Memory...

... Organic foods Vegetables Proteins Personal health Blood Next, the blood test results of the higher cholesterol participants (total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, triglycerides and blood glucose) were entered into a mixed ANOVA. This demonstrated a main effect of TIME (F(5,9)=7.84, p=0.004...

... Kingdom Personal health The biscuit market in the UK (termed “cookie” in the USA), along with the confectionery sector of which it is considered a part, has suffered in some recent years in terms of perception and unit sales, partly due to an assumed increased health orientation by consumers...

.... The empirical findings from this study are expected to benefit the continued development of the organic sector in Taiwan's food industry. Mei‐Fang Chen can be contacted at: mfchen@ttu.edu.tw © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Attitudes Personal health Consumer behaviour Life styles...

.... Anthony Worsley can be contacted at: tworsley@uow.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Food products Consumers Australia Demographics Personal health Consumer behaviour Consumers have many concerns about the influence of the foods they eat on their health. These range...

... balanced diet. Abdulrahman O. Musaiger can be contacted at: amusaiger@bcsr.gov.bh or amusaiger@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Bahrain Fast foods Food additives Personal health Globalization of the fast food and other modern food sectors is beginning to affect...

... (Baron‐Epel and Kaplan, 2001). Subjective health is considered to be a valid and reliable indicator of personal health, particularly in studies where other forms of health information are not included (Ferraro et al., 1997 ; Larue et al., 1979). Silvers and Scott (2002) reported...

... the thinking steps of consumers as guideline. The presentation of the results starts with feelings of consumers and ends with food and its characteristics Personal health Health foods Perception Consumers Group discussion The Netherlands Consumer‐oriented product development takes consumer...

... at: wboobier@glam.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Cardiovascular disease Bakery products Personal health Food products Deaths from coronary heart disease (CHD) have been declining steadily since the late 1970s. This has resulted from improvements in medical treatment...