Satisfaction with food-related life and beliefs about food health, safety, freshness and taste among the elderly in China: A segmentation analysis

作者: Rongduo Liu , Klaus G. Grunert

DOI: 10.1016/J.FOODQUAL.2019.103775

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摘要: Abstract This paper focuses on Chinese elderly’s life satisfaction with food, a specific and important domain of people’s daily life, two purposes: first, to investigate the relationship between food-related among elderly; second, segment elderly based their beliefs about food health, safety, freshness taste, profile them by satisfaction, food-relate goals, self-rated health status, economic status socio-demographic characteristics. Data were collected personal interviews conducted in Beijing 452 participants above 60 years old from March May 2018. The correlation present study was positive higher than other countries. Three distinct segments identified: safety concerned (38.6%), hedonic less (29.4%), somewhat (32.0%). level lowest segment, neutral highest segment. belief might play more dominant role attributes life. Eating healthy diet eating safe perceived as most goals while keeping expenditure low possible not participants. Implications for how improve future research discussed.

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