Food Quality and Preference

Papers
(The TQCC of Food Quality and Preference is 14. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Does cooking ability affect consumer perception and appreciation of plant-based protein in Bolognese sauces?142
Concurrent vs. immediate retrospective temporal sensory data collection: A case study on lemon-flavoured carbonated alcoholic drinks112
Appeals of Chinese medicinal cuisine promotion111
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Wired for harsh food environments: Human spatial memory favours the effortless location and consumption of high-calorie foods79
Unconscious emotional processing76
Commentary on “On the contribution of the senses to food emotional experience” by Dantec et al75
Something fishy is cooking – A survey of 11- to 13-year-old Danish children’s self-evaluated food neophilia, food behaviour, knowledge, and skills in relation to fish73
Retronasal olfaction is relatively less affected in older individuals with subjectively normal olfactory function71
Associations between trait food craving and adolescents’ preferences for and consumption of healthy versus unhealthy foods69
The role of life satisfaction and locus of control in changing purchase intentions for organic and local food during the pandemic68
Using Relative Preference mapping (RPM) to identify innovative flavours for 3-blend plant-based milk alternatives in different test locations62
How to determine Iso-sweet concentrations for various sweeteners: Insights from consumers and trained panels61
Food neophobia and its association with vegetable, fruit and snack intake among 12- to 36-month toddlers in China: A cross-sectional study58
Dietary and psychosocial correlates of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy58
Non experts’ understanding of terms frequently used by experts to describe the sensory properties of wine: An investigation based on opposites57
Attentional bias for vegetables is negatively associated with acceptability and is related to sensory properties57
Exploring the nexus between food and veg*n lifestyle via text mining-based online community analytics56
The negative influence of food neophobia on food and beverage liking: Time to look beyond extreme groups analysis?55
Identification of desirable mechanical and sensory properties of bread for the elderly55
Decoding the meaning of alternative proteins: Connotations and music-matching54
Effects of a thin body shape nudge and other determinants of adolescents’ healthy and unhealthy food consumption in a school setting54
Controlled product testing in the home - implications for sample size53
Living standards shape individual attitudes on genetically modified food around the world52
To fear the unknown: Covid-19 confinement, fear, and food choice51
Making ugly food beautiful: Consumer barriers to purchase and marketing options for Suboptimal Food at retail level – A systematic review50
Implicit and explicit liking of a snack with health- versus taste-related information50
Influence of exposure to novel food packaging on consumers’ adoption of innovative products50
Sweet music influences sensory and hedonic perception of food products with varying sugar levels49
Plant-based alternatives vs dairy milk: Consumer segments and their sensory, emotional, cognitive and situational use responses to tasted products49
Consumer segmentation based on product-elicited emotional associations: Case studies using the circumplex-inspired valence × arousal emotion word questionnaire (CEQ)49
The effect of moderating variables on consumer preferences for sustainable wines48
The theory of planned behaviour and healthy diet: Examining the mediating effect of traditional food48
Tasty or sustainable? Goal conflict in plant-based food choice48
Exploring factors determining German consumers’ intention to eat meat alternatives48
Knowledge of an insect pest negatively affects sensory perception and emotional response to blueberries45
Motivated to eat green or your greens? Comparing the role of motivation towards the environment and for eating regulation on ecological eating behaviours – A Self-Determination Theory perspective45
Health Star Rating Labels: A systematic review and future research agenda44
Dissociable effects of hunger, exposure and sensory overlap on flavour liking44
“I don't just drink water for the sake of it”: Understanding the influence of value, reward, self-identity and early life on water drinking behaviour43
Explicit and implicit measures of emotions: Data-science might help to account for data complexity and heterogeneity43
The influence of innovation-adoption characteristics on consumers' trust and purchase intentions of innovative alternative proteins: A comparison between plant-based food, cultured food, and insect-ba40
Soft, crispy, crunchy, sustainable: The role of visual textures in shaping sustainable food preferences40
Multisensory adaptation strategies: Decreased food sensory importance in patients with olfactory dysfunction40
Reviving the entomophagy tradition among the younger generation: An application of the theory of planned behavior40
Is dietary intake associated with salt taste function and perception in adults? A systematic review40
Congruency of an eating environment influences product liking: A virtual reality study39
Influence of obesity on saltiness and sweetness intensity enhancement by odors39
Exploring the buzz: The mediating role of entomophagy attitudes among younger generations towards pork from pigs fed with insect flour39
Association between eco-anxiety, sustainable eating and consumption behaviors and the EAT-Lancet diet score among university students39
The multisensory design of pharmaceuticals and their packaging38
Attitude toward environmental protection and toward nature: How do they shape consumer behaviour for a sustainable tomato?38
How to define “Vegan”: An exploratory study of definition preferences among omnivores, vegetarians, and vegans38
Early changes in elderly food habits related to reduced protein intake37
Sustainable food choice motives: The development and cross-country validation of the Sustainable Food Choice Questionnaire (SUS-FCQ)36
A food and beverage map: Exploring food-beverage pairing through projective mapping36
Impact of front-of-pack labels with nutrition and Grass-Fed claims on consumer perceptions and expected sensory and nutritional characteristics of Cheddar cheese – A comparative study of Irish and US 35
Explaining diurnal patterns of food consumption35
The influence of information about nutritional quality, environmental impact and eco-efficiency of menu items on consumer perceptions and behaviors35
Consumers’ willingness-to-buy pasta with microalgae proteins – Which label can promote sales?35
The Picky Eating Questionnaire and Child-reported Food Preference Questionnaire: Pilot validation in Australian-Indian mothers and children 7-12 years old34
Variations in consumer acceptance, sensory engagement and method practicality across three remote consumer-testing modalities34
I’ll have this salad on the left, and I’ll have it now! The influence of hunger on healthy-left nudge34
The potential of using emoji instead of words when measuring emotions associated with food34
Bread buns or slices? variations of bread shape modifies ad libitum intake of bread and toppings34
Food texture preferences in early childhood: Insights from 3–6 years old children and parents34
Consumers' expectations and experiences of salad greens, herbs, and fruits from vertical farming: Comparison with organic produce33
Genetics, odor perception and food liking: The intriguing role of cinnamon33
Patterns and stability of food preferences among a national representative sample of young, middle-aged, and elderly adults in China: A latent transition analysis32
The effect of food shape on children’s implicit and explicit emotional response32
An enjoyment-focused social identity intervention to reduce buffet plate waste32
Downsizing by design – Investigating acceptance, choice and willingness to pay for portion control design concepts32
The German Leeds food preference Questionnaire (LFPQ-G): A validation study32
What makes a food healthy? Sex differences in what is associated to healthiness evaluations32
Turning your weakness into my strength: How counter-messaging on conventional meat influences acceptance of cultured meat32
Impact of context in visual evaluation of design pastry: Comparison of real and virtual31
Consumers’ attitudes towards sustainable alternative protein sources: Comparing seaweed, insects and jellyfish in Italy31
Shopping for a sustainable future: Two case studies on consumer perception of organic cotton and wine31
Consumer attitudes and beliefs towards plant-based food in different degrees of processing – The case of Sweden30
Meat-ing expectations? The influence of plate materials on consumer perceptions of novel mycoprotein30
Need to Change, Want to Change, or Hard to Change? Targeting three dinner food waste profiles with regard to attitudes and personality traits30
What do consumers prioritise when selecting climate-affected produce and what trumps empathy towards farmers?30
Open to experiencing…meat alternatives? The HEXACO personality model and willingness to try, buy, and pay among omnivores30
The trust paradox in food labelling: An exploration of consumers’ perceptions of certified vegetables29
Overcoming barriers to consumer acceptance of 3D-printed foods in the food service sector29
Consumer responses to the use of artificial intelligence in luxury and non-luxury restaurants29
Variability in the temporal perception of polyphenol-related sensations in extra virgin olive oil and impact on flavor perception29
Tackling nutritional and health claims to disentangle their effects on consumer food choices and behaviour: A systematic review29
Geographical context of European consumers’ choices of alternative protein food: A systematic review28
Predicting consumers’ attitude towards and willingness to buy beer brewed with agroindustrial by-products28
Does risk preference matter to consumers’ willingness to pay for functional food: Evidence from lab experiments using the eye-tracking technology28
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Influence of Orthonasal delivery of sweet volatiles on the perception of fruitiness in the mouth28
Exploring the effect of familiarity on sports performance food perception in various simulated consumption contexts27
Stay safe in your vehicle: Drive-in booths can be an alternative to indoor booths for laboratory sensory testing27
(M)eat more plants: How category dimensions and inferences shape consumer acceptance of plant-based proteins27
Number of children needed to evaluate products made in cooking workshops27
Corrigendum to “Seeking confirmation? Biased information search and deliberation in the food domain” [Food Qual. Preference 91 (2021) 104189]27
Segmenting and profiling seaweed consumers: A cross-cultural comparison of Australia, the United Kingdom and Croatia27
Naturalness Attitudinal Scale (NAS): Development and validation of new scales to measure attitudes toward naturalness for different product categories27
Hardness sensitivity: Are old, young, female and male subjects all equally sensitive?26
Less is more: Mindfulness, portion size, and candy eating pleasure26
A scoping review of the literature examining consumer acceptance of upcycled foods26
Analyzing temporal dominance of sensations data with categorical functional data analysis26
Distinct sensory hedonic functions for sourness in adults26
The effect of unit number and inter-unit distance on perceived food portion size26
Relevant elements on biscuits purchasing decision for coeliac children and their parents in a supermarket context26
Can facial expressions predict beer choices after tasting? A proof of concept study on implicit measurements for a better understanding of choice behavior among beer consumers25
Enabled to eat more plant proteins? Capabilities, opportunities, and motivations related to increasing pulse and pulse-based product consumption across consumer groups25
Capturing food-elicited emotions: Facial decoding of children’s implicit and explicit responses to tasted samples25
Effect of basic structural variation, aimed at increasing perceivable textures in model foods, on the perception of textural complexity25
Willingness to pay for higher environmental standards for avocado production in Great Barrier Reef catchments25
Understanding influencing attributes of adolescent snack choices: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment25
The influence of label information on the snacks parents choose for their children: Individual differences in a choice based conjoint test25
Food neophobia predicts visual ability in the recognition of prepared food, beyond domain-general factors24
Meat alternative consumers still frowned upon in Europe: Analysis of stereotypical, emotional and behavioral responses of observing others24
Social-psychological determinants of young consumers’ consumption of pork24
The appeal of virtual chocolate: A systematic comparison of psychological and physiological food cue responses to virtual and real food24
Biterm topic modelling of responses to open-ended questions: A study with US consumers about vertical farming24
Exploring the intersection of food literacy and consumer research: A review, conceptualisation, and agenda for sustainability-focused research24
Do efforts to reduce packaging waste impact preferences for meal kits?24
Using Twitter to model consumer perception and product development opportunities: A use case with Turmeric24
Olfactory modulation of visual attention and preference towards congruent food products: An eye tracking study24
Commentary on “The future of consumer neuroscience in food research” by Niedziela and Ambroze24
Label copresence for healthier choices: How sugar content per daily limit and sugar warning labels balance out the health halos of nutrient-content claim23
Comparing traditional check-all-that-apply (CATA) and implicit response time Go/No-go approaches for profiling consumer emotional response when tasting food23
Sensory specific satiety or appetite? Investigating effects of retronasally-introduced aroma and taste cues on subsequent real-life snack intake23
A segmentation of fish consumers based on quantity and type of fish: Insights from the Swedish market23
Immediate backfire? Nudging sustainable food choices and psychological reactance23
Understanding the influence of end-users on the acceptance of gene edited foods and sensitivity to information23
Association between visual attention to nutrition priming and subsequent beverage choice23
An integrated framework to explain consumers’ purchase intentions toward green food in the Chinese context22
Massively collaborative crowdsourced research on COVID19 and the chemical senses: Insights and outcomes22
Factors influencing the intention to purchase meat-mushroom blended burgers among college students22
Eating out of paper versus plastic: The effect of packaging material on consumption22
Opinion note: Digitalization in sensory and consumer science – Summary perspectives from presentations at the 15th Pangborn sensory science symposium22
Cross-national comparison on the meaning of emoji to describe emotions elicited by foods in preadolescents22
Understanding consumer’s acceptability of the technology behind upcycled foods: An application of the technology acceptance model22
Seasonal cues to food scarcity and calorie cravings: Winter cues elicit preferences for energy-dense foods22
Flavor language in expert reviews versus consumer preferences: An application to expensive American whiskeys22
Pairing a beer with a soundtrack: Is it guided by geographical identity?21
Comparison of variants of the valence × arousal circumplex-inspired emotion word questionnaire21
Association of emojis to the five basic tastes (sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami)21
The emulsion-filled gels with different fat contents exhibit various friction behavior and dynamic fat-related texture perception at different temperatures21
When less is more – Effects of providing simple vs. refined action-knowledge interventions to promote climate-friendly food consumption in German consumers21
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How physical cues surrounding foods influence snack consumption: The case of covering foods21
The role of immersive environments in the assessment of consumer perceptions and product acceptance: A systematic literature review21
Exploring intergenerational differences in consumer acceptance of insects-fed farmed fish21
Rejoinder to “Determinants of Liking: A Call for Multilevel Assessment of Wine Preferences - A commentary on Werner and colleagues 2021”21
Is the R-index method for eliciting preference measures from the 9-point hedonic scale fit for purpose?20
Nutritional condition and nutrient intake predict moral condemnation of food wasting20
Acceptability of protein-fortified recipes in older adults in France20
The effect of meat-shaming on meat eaters’ emotions and intentions to adapt behavior20
Screening respondents to increase data quality in consumer tests20
The effects of gamification on engagement and response accuracy in discriminatory sensory testing20
Assessing tactile acuity in oral tissues: Challenges of stimulus development20
Chemosensory vocabulary in wine, perfume and food product reviews: Insights from language modeling20
An investigation of the stability of Free-Comment and Check-All-That-Apply in two consumer studies on red wines and milk chocolates20
On the choice of appropriate models for CATA data – A further reply to Bi and Kuesten20
On being a foodie: Food literacy, involvement, and disgust20
Individual variation in mouthfeel sensitivity: investigating influences of whey protein content, consumer age, food format and fat addition20
A review on oral tactile sensitivity: measurement techniques, influencing factors and its relation to food perception and preference20
A multiple-response chi-square framework for the analysis of Free-Comment and Check-All-That-Apply data20
The heritability of pescetarianism and vegetarianism20
Validation of the Dietarian Identity Questionnaire (DIQ): A case study in Italy20
Are unconscious emotions important in product assessment? How can we access them?20
Masculinizing plant-based diets as an appeal for dietary change among men19
Sensory evaluation of wine aroma: Should color-driven descriptors be used?19
Investigating the eating patterns and expectations for the 60+: Insights for the development of new “ready-to-eat” products19
Organic food preferences: A Comparison of American and Indian consumers19
Consumers’ perception of plant-based alternatives and changes over time. A linguistic analysis across three countries and ten years19
Variations in oral responsiveness associate with specific signatures in the gut microbiota and modulate dietary habits19
Assessing moderated mediation effects influencing consumer acceptance of cell-cultured Meat: A PLS-SEM modeling approach19
Consumers across five European countries prioritise animal welfare above environmental sustainability when buying meat and dairy products19
Serving a dip with a salty snack promotes energy intake19
PROP taste status has limited impact on wine flavour perception and acceptability by consumers18
Practices and representations of snacking in a highly standardized food culture: The scenario in France18
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Does participation in CSA affect consciousness and sustainable behavior of consumers? The evidence from a longitudinal study18
Blockchain traceability and agri-food appeal: A task-technology fit perspective18
Investigating consumers' views on foods from soilless farming systems: A review of the literature and discussion of implications and recommendations18
Commentary: Changes in eating and changes in affect during early Covid confinement18
Meat alternative adoption: How climate change concern drives perceived sustainability, naturalness, and taste18
The stability of self-reported emotional response and liking of beer in context18
Flavor intensity is reduced in pureed food: A study using instrumental and sensory analyses18
When tradition turns to innovation: Japanese consumers' evaluation of new food products18
Exploring how age, medication usage, and dentures effect the sensory perception and liking of oral nutritional supplements in older adults18
Influence of wine traits and context on liking, intention to consume, wine-evoked emotions and perceived sensory sensations18
How sensory and hedonic expectations shape perceived properties of regular and non-alcoholic beer18
Introduction to the Special Issue on Emotion18
Bayesian D- and I-optimal designs for choice experiments involving mixtures and process variables18
Why trust is crucial – The moderating role of trust in the relationship between motivation and intention to buy healthy, sustainable and novel foods18
Preferences and willingness to pay for personalized nutrition interventions: Discrete choice experiments in Europe and the United States18
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Power of presence: Effects of physical or digital commensality on consumer perception and acceptance of meals17
Application of Polarized Projective Mapping combined with Ultra Flash Profiling to a complex − high fatigue product category: The case of Greek grape marc spirits17
Is classical music sweeter than jazz? Crossmodal influences of background music and taste/flavour on healthy and indulgent food preferences17
Exploring food consumers’ motivations to fight both climate change and biodiversity loss: Combining insights from behavior theory and Eurobarometer data17
Food technology neophobia as a psychological barrier to clean meat acceptance17
Preliminary findings: Preferences of right-handed people for food images oriented to the left vs. right side17
The food neophobia scale: Factorial and construct validity in the Australian population17
Social representations of craft food products in three European countries17
A behavioural reasoning perspective on the consumption of local food. A study on REKO, a social media-based local food distribution system17
Motivations to buy organic food in emerging markets: An exploratory study of urban Indian millennials17
Trying tongs and spoiling spoons: Effort nudges influence food consumption and may motivate healthier food decisions17
The who, what, where, when, why and how of measuring emotional response to food. A systematic review17
Developmental changes in food and non-food odor importance – Data from Scotland and Pakistan17
“Feminine = Healthy Food” stereotype: Impact of feminine brand personality on consumer attitudes toward healthier food brands17
Seasonal multisensory eating experiences in Norway and Colombia16
Consumer attitudes towards hydroponic cultivation of vegetables – Specifically exploring the impact of the fertilisation strategy (using mineral origin or food waste as fertilisers)16
The potential of salient branding of fresh fruit on the supermarket shelf for consumer brand recall16
Impact of olfactory priming on mental representations of food concepts and subsequent food choice16
From noise to sound: Setting the base of packaging sound design for cosmetics by physical, sensory and cognitive characterization of lipstick closing sounds16
Territorial brand equity in the wine market and the role of the organic label: A consumer perspective16
Carbon footprint labels involving traffic lights foster sustainable food choices16
The development and validation of a food chain engagement measurement scale16
Understanding the role of food Neophobia in the willingness to consume functional rice16
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Impact of emotional state on consumers’ emotional conceptualizations of dark chocolate using an emoji-based questionnaire16
Is there also a hidden health cue in the background? The impact of natural imagery on product attitude in food marketing16
A taste of things to come: The effect of extrinsic and intrinsic cues on perceived properties of beer mediated by expectations16
Sample discrimination through profiling with rate all that apply (RATA) using consumers is similar between home use test (HUT) and central location test (CLT)16
The impact of time standardising TCATA by modality data on the multisensory profile of beer15
More than a feeling: Development of an EmoSemio questionnaire to evaluate emotions evoked by cell-cultivated meat label terms in Singapore and the USA15
Paying for sustainable food choices: The role of environmental considerations in consumer valuation of insect-based foods15
Information, attitudes, and consumer evaluations of cultivated meat15
Nothing but ‘peaches and cream’? The impact of fruit images and a sugar claim on young consumers’ perceptions and expectations of dairy products15
Acceptance of 3D printed foods among senior consumers in Japan15
Which meat (substitute) to buy? Is front of package information reliable to identify the healthier and more natural choice?15
Factors influencing thirst perception during the consumption of oral nutritional supplements in older adults15
Understanding the importance and timing of panic buying among U.S. Households during the COVID-19 pandemic15
Can AI Powered Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech techniques limit the interviewer bias in sensory and consumer research?15
Show me the benefits! Determinants of behavioral intentions towards CRISPR in the United States15
An evaluation and shortening of the Cooking and Food Provisioning Action Scale (CAFPAS) using item response theory15
Determinants and moderators of organic food purchase intention15
Visual marketing: The importance and consumer recognition of fruit brands in supermarket fruit displays15
Cognitive styles influence eating environment-induced variations in consumer perception of food: A case study with Pad Thai noodle15
The heterogeneity of consumer preference for blockchain-based food traceability: The role of governmental trust and information-seeking behaviour15
The taste of colours15
Saltiness perception in white sauce formulations as tested in older adults15
A diet-related health prompt with the Swiss Food Pyramid as a nudge to reduce meat consumption15
A meta-review of consumer behaviour studies on meat reduction and alternative protein acceptance15
Age group determines the acceptability of protein derived off-flavour15
Healthier and more natural reformulated baby food pouches: Will toddlers and their parents sensory accept them?14
Familiarity and identification of everyday food odors in older adults and their influence on hedonic liking14
Consumer preferences for organic, animal welfare-friendly, and locally produced meat in workplace canteens: Results of a discrete choice experiment in Germany14
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