Version 1
: Received: 21 June 2021 / Approved: 22 June 2021 / Online: 22 June 2021 (12:06:04 CEST)
Version 2
: Received: 3 July 2021 / Approved: 5 July 2021 / Online: 5 July 2021 (08:10:21 CEST)
How to cite:
Kilic, B.; Cubero Dudinskaya, E.; Proi, M.; Naspetti, S.; Zanoli, R. Are They Careful enough? Testing Consumers’ Perception of Alternative Processing Methods on the Quality of Organic Food. Preprints2021, 2021060540
Kilic, B.; Cubero Dudinskaya, E.; Proi, M.; Naspetti, S.; Zanoli, R. Are They Careful enough? Testing Consumers’ Perception of Alternative Processing Methods on the Quality of Organic Food. Preprints 2021, 2021060540
Kilic, B.; Cubero Dudinskaya, E.; Proi, M.; Naspetti, S.; Zanoli, R. Are They Careful enough? Testing Consumers’ Perception of Alternative Processing Methods on the Quality of Organic Food. Preprints2021, 2021060540
APA Style
Kilic, B., Cubero Dudinskaya, E., Proi, M., Naspetti, S., & Zanoli, R. (2021). Are They Careful enough? Testing Consumers’ Perception of Alternative Processing Methods on the Quality of Organic Food. Preprints. https://doi.org/
Chicago/Turabian Style
Kilic, B., Simona Naspetti and Raffaele Zanoli. 2021 "Are They Careful enough? Testing Consumers’ Perception of Alternative Processing Methods on the Quality of Organic Food" Preprints. https://doi.org/
Abstract
Given the increasing public interest in how ingredients are processed and the growing demand for organic food products, it is critical to understand consumers’ expectations about the process-related quality of organic products. Consumers perceive organic food to be nutritious, healthy and either natural or less processed, as they are afraid of the loss of nutrients and other natural properties of the food products. However, emerging food processing technologies might generate healthy and safe food options with nutritional quality properties. Simplified communication schemes might help to overcome this barrier. The main objective of this paper is to propose a working definition of "careful processing" for organic products and test its consistency while being used in scoring different processing methods by consumers. Results show that the proposed definition allows to consistently rate alternative processing methods. Consumers tend to score novel processing methods such as pulsed electric fields and microwave as less careful, supporting the idea that organic consumers want the least man-made interference with their food products. Results show that a simple but effective definition of careful processing may help consumers to distinguish further organic food products from conventional ones, no matter which communication scheme is used.
Business, Economics and Management, Accounting and Taxation
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This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Commenter: Raffaele Zanoli
Commenter's Conflict of Interests: Author