Aligning values to labels: A best-worst analysis of food labels
Consumer misperception and misinterpretation of food labels can lead to consumers not buying a product or purchasing products that do not align with their environmental or sustainability interests. Consumer purchasing behavior can be explained by looking
Alexandria McLeod+3 more
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Would Altruistic Consumers Place A Higher Value on Sustainable Foods?
To advance sustainable food systems, it is necessary to explore consumer preferences and valuations of sustainable food labels. This study utilizes a discrete choice experiment to examine consumers’ willingness to pay for various sustainable labels using
Haoyang Li, Wen Lin
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UMDFood: Vision-language models boost food composition compilation [PDF]
Nutrition information is crucial in precision nutrition and the food industry. The current food composition compilation paradigm relies on laborious and experience-dependent methods. However, these methods struggle to keep up with the dynamic consumer market, resulting in delayed and incomplete nutrition data.
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Assessing knowledge and practice of food producers, retailers and consumers of food labels in Bostanabad [PDF]
Awareness of the information provided on food labels is important and will help the consumers to select standard food packaging. This knowledge can lead to improving the diet and health in the community.
M Ghochani+4 more
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Self-Supervised Visual Representation Learning on Food Images [PDF]
Food image analysis is the groundwork for image-based dietary assessment, which is the process of monitoring what kinds of food and how much energy is consumed using captured food or eating scene images. Existing deep learning-based methods learn the visual representation for downstream tasks based on human annotation of each food image.
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Efficacy of Labeling of Foods and Pharmaceuticals [PDF]
Over the past several decades, the US Congress and regulatory agencies have developed a complex system of informational regulations for food and drugs that goes far beyond indications such as "USDA pproved." Individual states have also begun to display increasing interest in this issue.
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Metabolic dysfunction‐associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) affects nearly one‐third of the global population and poses a significant risk of progression to cirrhosis or liver cancer. Here, we discuss the roles of hepatic dendritic cell subtypes in MASLD, highlighting their distinct contributions to disease initiation and progression, and their ...
Camilla Klaimi+3 more
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Scale-Score: Investigation of a Meta yet Multi-level Label to Support Nutritious and Sustainable Food Choices When Online Grocery Shopping [PDF]
Food consumption is one of the biggest contributors to climate change. However, online grocery shoppers often lack the time, motivation, or knowledge to contemplate a food's environmental impact. At the same time, they are concerned with their own well-being. To empower grocery shoppers in making nutritionally and environmentally informed decisions, we
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Consumer Power to Change the Food System? A Critical Reading of Food Labels as Governance Spaces: The Case of Acai Berry Superfoods [PDF]
This article argues that the marketing claims on food labels are a governance space worthy of critical examination. We use a case study of superfood açaí berry products to illustrate how marketing claims on food labels encapsulate dominant neoliberal ...
Curll, Janine+2 more
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Functional variation among LPMOs revealed by the inhibitory effects of cyanide and buffer ions
This study addresses the inhibition of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) by cyanide and explains how and why the magnitude of observed inhibitory effects depends on the way LPMO reactions are setup and on the type of LPMO. Enzymes known as lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) are mono‐copper polysaccharide‐degrading peroxygenases that ...
Ole Golten+10 more
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