Conceptual Models

 

Conceptual Models of Food Choice: Influential Factors Related to Foods, Individual Differences, and Society

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Key determinants of general food choice are identified and categorized, including 

1. food-internal factor (sensory and perceptual features), food-external factors (information, social environment, physical environment),
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3. personal-state factors (biological features and physiological needs, psychological components, habits and experiences), 
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5. cognitive factors (knowledge and skills, attitude, liking and preference, anticipated consequences, and personal identity), 
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7. sociocultural factors (culture, economic variables, political elements).  

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 2. Materials and Methods

 
The present review aims at introducing factors influencing individual food choice with a proposed
conceptual model by including academic publications as well as grey literature. The inclusion of
publications is based on the following criteria: 

(1) studies had to be published in English; 

(2) studies which were based on healthy adult population;

 (3) studies focused on general food choice instead
of specific food choice (e.g., ethnic food and functional food);

 (4) studies which were conducted notwithin specific social cultural context (e.g., specific to certain community or town); 

(5) studies which proposed at least a conceptual model of food choice.

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