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Latvian consumers eating motivations

dc.contributor.authorKalnina, I.
dc.contributor.authorStraumite, E.
dc.contributor.authorKlava, D.
dc.contributor.authorKruma, Z.
dc.contributor.authorGuiné, Raquel
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:28:00Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:28:00Z
dc.date.issued2017-04
dc.description.abstractThe society’s dietary habits make an important impact on overall health status, the food that are consumed daily can be one of factors that prevent or, on the contrary, intensify health issues. The aim of this research was to find out the factors that influence food choice of Latvian citizens. In the survey there was studied Latvian citizen’s eating motivation. The questionnaire was used as a basic tool which was completed by 240 respondents (80% female and 20% male) from different Latvia regions. The survey included ten parts – demographical information, anthropometric data and behavioural and health related elements, healthy food and sources of information about healthy eating, factors related to food choices according to healthy motivations, emotional motivations, economic and availability motivations, social and cultural motivations, environmental and political motivations, marketing and commercials motivations. The results of questionnaire show, that the 40% of respondents have motivation to eat healthy; Latvian citizens haven’t united viewpoint regarding emotional motivations for eating, but 47% of respondents have economic motivations for different food purchases; 44% of respondents are motivated by social and cultural issues, 32% of respondents have political motivations in food choice, but only 31% of respondents are affected by different marketing actions. This research was prepared in the ambit of the multinational project from CI&DETS Research Centre (IPV e Viseu, Portugal) with reference PROJ/CI&DETS/2016/0008: EATMOT.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.citationKalnina, I., Straumite, E., Klava, D., Kruma, Z. & Guiné, R. P. F. (2017). Latvian consumers eating motivations. in Evita Straumite (Ed.), "Abstract Book and Conference Proceedings of 11th Baltic Conference on Food Science and Technology "FOODBALT 2017", Jelgava, Letónia, pp. 39.pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn2501-0190
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/4566
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.relationCI&DETS Research Centre (IPV) PROJ/CI&DETS/2016/0008: EATMOTpt_PT
dc.subjectFood choicept_PT
dc.subjectSurveypt_PT
dc.titleLatvian consumers eating motivationspt_PT
dc.typeconference object
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.conferencePlaceJelgava, Letóniapt_PT
oaire.citation.endPage39pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage39pt_PT
oaire.citation.title11th Baltic Conference on Food Science and Technology "FOODBALT 2017"pt_PT
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typeconferenceObjectpt_PT

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