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- Factors affecting consumer food preferences: food taste and depression-based evoked emotional expressions with the use of face reading technologyPublication . Bartkiene, Elena; Steibliene, Vesta; Adomaitiene, Virginija; Juodeikiene, Grazina; Cernauskas, Darius; Lele, Vita; Klupsaite, Dovile; Zadeike, Daiva; Jarutiene, Laura; Guiné, RaquelIn this study, several factors (social status, age, gender, education, knowledge about healthy eating, and attitude to food) affecting consumer food choices (FC), including the relationship between the taste of food, FC, and depression, were analysed by using sensory traits and face reading technology. The first stage of the experimental scheme was the analysis of factors affecting consumer food preferences by using a questionnaire, while the second stage was evaluation of emotional expressions evoked by different food tastes in individuals with and without depressive disorders (DD), using the FaceReader 6 software. We show that gender is a significant factor for most emotional motivations, with a higher effect in females where there was an indication of increased cravings for sweets when feeling depressed. Age was a significant factor in the motivation to eat for positive feelings, while education had a significant influence on perceptions regarding healthy eating. Face reading technology was found to be sufficiently accurate to detect differences in facial expressions induced by different tastes of food, for groups with and without DD. In conclusion, many factors are of high importance in the analysis of food choices, and the results obtained using the FaceReader 6 technique are very promising for food-mood relation analysis. We suggest that mood has a strong link with the choice of food.
- Factors influencing consumers motivations for healthy eating and food-mood relation of people's with and without depressive disorderPublication . Bartkiene, Elena; Steibliene, Vesta; Adomaitiene, Virginija; Juodeikiene, Grazina; Lele, Vita; Cernauskas, Darius; Klupsaite, Dovile; Zadeike, Daiva; Jarutiene, Laura; Sakiene, Vytaute; Guiné, RaquelThe aim of this study was to evaluate relation between the consumers gender, age, education, civil state, profession and its field with their perception, emotional motivations and selection of information sources about a healthy eating. In addition, to evaluate possible relation of the food choice and people‘s mood, the initial study about the emotions induced by the different tastes of food for people's with and without depressive disorder was performed. It was established that the gender is significant factor on the most of the emotional motivations. Also, participants age have a significant influence on motivation “food makes me feel good“, as well as education have a significant influence on perceptions about a healthy eating. Most of the analysed perceptions were significantly influenced by civil state, profession and professional field of the participants. The results obtained by using FaceReader technic showed higher sensibility, than the evaluation by using hedonic scale, which can be influenced by participants previous emotions, which were induced by memory about food uses in the past, and it was established that the mood has a link with the choice of food. Finally, FaceReader is very promising technique to detect differences in facial emotion expressions induced by different taste of food for different mood people's groups, but more research is needed to see how this technology performs in more complex testing procedures, simulated or ‘‘real life’’ environments.