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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Modulating taste perception through color and shape: a mixed reality study on solid foods

Frontiers in Computer Science
The study explores the cross-modal correspondence between color and taste in a mixed reality (MR) context. Using dehydrated apple snacks, we examined how product and context color influence the perception of sweetness and sourness. Three experiments were
Mariela Guberman, Mariela Guberman, Jean-Christophe Sakdavong, Mara V. Galmarini, Mara V. Galmarini   +4 more
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Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fabrication of Dragee Containing Spirulina platensis Microalgae to Enrich Corn Snack and Evaluate Its Sensorial, Physicochemical and Nutritional Properties

Foods, 2022
In this work, the possibility of enriching snacks with Spirulina palatensis (SP) powder as a dragee was studied. In dragee formulation, the effects of various levels of SP, sunflower oil, NaCl and sour whey powder on sensory, physicochemical and ...
Maryam Bayat Tork, Mohsen Vazifedoost, Mohammad Ali Hesarinejad, Zohreh Didar, Masoud Shafafi Zenoozian   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Animal‐Based Brands Taking the Plant‐Based Opportunity: A Tasting Experiment Exploring Consumer Acceptance of Plant‐Based Brand Extensions

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how consumer taste and brand equity perceptions shape the acceptance of plant‐based milk products. Using a blind/informed tasting experiment, we evaluated consumers' willingness to buy (WTB) and taste perception of a plant‐based milk alternative produced by a traditional dairy brand, compared with competing plant‐based ...
Federico Parmiggiani, Mirta Casati, Elena Castellari, Fosca Vezzulli, Veronica Vitali, Milena Lambri, Claudio Soregaroli   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the Impact of Promotions on Consumer Purchasing Behavior During Crises

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how households modify their food expenditure decisions during times of crisis is essential because consumer purchasing behavior frequently changes during these times. This study looks at these behavioral shifts during the COVID‐19 pandemic, concentrating on how price sensitivity and response to sales promotions changed over the ...
Wafa Mehaba, José María Gil
wiley   +1 more source

Market‐Based Nutrition Regulation and Adult BMI Dynamics in Latin America

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Market‐based nutrition policies, including interpretative labeling systems and taxes on sugar‐sweetened beverages (SSBs), have been widely adopted across Latin America to influence dietary choices and address rising obesity rates. While prior research documents change in food purchasing and product reformulation following these policies ...
Emiliano Lopez Barrera, Grace Melo
wiley   +1 more source

A Machine Learning Model for Interpretable PECVD Deposition Rate Prediction

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
This study develops six machine learning models (k‐nearest neighbors, support vector regression, decision tree, random forest, CatBoost, and backpropagation neural network) to predict SiNx deposition rates in plasma‐enhanced chemical vapor deposition using hybrid production and simulation data.
Yuxuan Zhai, Wenrui Wang, Rui Chen, Tong Yu, Xiaojuan Zheng, Hua Shao, Dashan Shang, Ling Li, Lado Filipovic   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

HUBUNGAN KONSUMSI MAKANAN JAJANAN DENGAN STATUS GIZI PADA MAHASISWA
[Association between Snack Consumption and Nutritional Status among Undergraduate Students]

Media Gizi Indonesia, 2020
Oven nutrition among adults are public health problem that prevalence increase continuously by the year. College students who included in adult age group had many changes in lifestyle like snacking behaviour.
Devi Puspasari, Farapti Farapti
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The Challenge of Handling Structured Missingness in Integrated Data Sources

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
As data integration becomes ever more prevalent, a new research question that emerges is how to handle missing values that will inevitably arise in these large‐scale integrated databases? This missingness can be described as structured missingness, encompassing scenarios involving multivariate missingness mechanisms and deterministic, nonrandom ...
James Jackson, Marius Hofert, Eleni‐Rosalina Andrinopoulou, Niels Hagenbuch, Sarah McGough, Chris Harbron, Robin Mitra   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source