Food Choice Motivations on a Sample of Portuguese Citizens

Guiné, Raquel; Florença, Sofia de Guiné e; Correia, Paula

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Food Choice Motivations on a Sample of Portuguese Citizens

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dc.contributor.author	Guiné, Raquel
dc.contributor.author	Florença, Sofia de Guiné e
dc.contributor.author	Correia, Paula
dc.date.accessioned	2025-06-20T15:43:24Z
dc.date.available	2025-06-20T15:43:24Z
dc.date.issued	2025
dc.description.abstract	Eating is a basic necessity of the human body to be able to maintain life. The ingestions of macro and micro nutrients ensures the provision of energy and compounds essential for the functioning of the organs and cells in the human body. However, what we choose to eat is not only determined by physiological or nutritional needs, and is influenced by a high number of factors of different nature. Some of these factors include socioeconomic status, demographics, taste, lifestyle characteristics, convenience, food cost, security, access to food, nutrition knowledge, cultural influences, religious beliefs, social groups, among others. choices, as well as lifestyle variables associated with the ingestion of foods, it is important to study their influence and in what way they are more This research intended to investigate the effect of social and cultural aspects on the eating motivations of a sample of Portuguese citizens. The questionnaire survey was approved by the Ethical Committee of Health School of Polytechnic University of Viseu, with reference nº 04/2017. The questionnaire contained a number of statements to -point Likert scale from 1 (totally disagree) to 4 (totally agree). The data were collected online through Google Forms and the survey was conducted through email invitation and social networks. A convenience samples was used, recruited by snowball methodology. A total of 1314 validated questionnaires were obtained. The results of the present study revealed that practically all participants consider that meals are an opportunity for fellowship and pleasure, the great majority said they do not like to eat alone and about half of the participants admitted that when they eat with company they tend to eat more than usual. Regarding familiarity with foods, a great majority do not feel they need to consume foods similar to those they used to consume as a child, and contrarily, like to try new foods and enjoy innovative food experiences. Regarding the influence of other in shaping what the participants consume, more than half admit that they eat what they are expected to eat, and they do not follow food trends. Finally, two thirds of the participants base their food choice in food items from the season	por
dc.identifier.citation	Guiné RPF, Florença SG, Correia PMR. (2025) Food Choice Motivations on a Sample of Portuguese Citizens, in Abstract Book and Proceedings of 12th International European Congress on Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, que se realizou em Tirana, Albânia, pp. 12-13 [Resumo] e pp. 370-379 [Ata]
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/9357
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.peerreviewed	yes
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Eating motivation
dc.subject	Food choice
dc.subject	motivational factors
dc.title	Food Choice Motivations on a Sample of Portuguese Citizens	eng
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