Functional foods & alimentary habits in purchase-consumption of comestible snails |
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| Karamani, E., Karamani, M., Tzimitra Kalogianni, E. |
- Abstract:
- The main objective of present study is the definition of bio-functional foods and the investigation of attitude of consumers toward the market and consumption of comestible snails in the wider region of Thessalonica.
The questionnaire of particular study was applied in sample of 353 individuals at the duration: 13 December his 2013 until 28 his April 2014 in the urban group of Thessalonica. The questions that included it was for the most part “closed” type, so that it can become statistical treatment and analysis of elements in order to results a line of conclusions. The analysis of elements became with the use of statistical parcel IBM SPSS statistics 21. The method that was selected as more suitable, for the statistical investigation of attitudes and opinions of consumers, is the categoric regression (Categorical Regression), which constitutes extension of classic statistical technique of analysis of regression, that is used when somebodies of the variables are not numerical or exist suspicion that the relations from each other are not linear.
From the results it results that the socio- economic characteristics (income, age, sex, familial situation, education) Thessalonikeon of consumers influence their consuming tendencies as for the snails , also have been studied the frequency of consumption of snails, the money that allocate the consumers as well as the part in which they prefer they consume him. and finally it has been studied how is influenced the consumption of snails from their particular socio-economic and demographic characteristics.
Finally, are formulated certain proposals that they aim at as, the better promotion and improvement of sector saligkarotrofias, and right promotion of snails in the market. - Keywords:
- functional foods, consumer's behavior, Thessaloniki, categorical regression
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- IMEKO-TC23-2017-158.pdf
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- Event details
- IMEKO TC:
- TC23
- Event name:
- 3rd IMEKOFOODS Conference
- Title:
Metrology Promoting Standardization and Harmonization in Food and Nutrition
- Place:
- Thessaloniki, GREECE
- Time:
- 01 October 2017 - 04 October 2017