Download the full report. When many of us hear the term climate change, we think about changes in the weather and how human activity impacts our environment….
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Consumer Survey: COVID-19’s Impact on Food Purchasing, Eating Behaviors and Perceptions of Food Safety
Download the full report. It’s been just over one month since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19, also known as the novel coronavirus, a global pandemic. And we continue to feel its…
Consumer Perceptions About Food Fraud
Download the full report. Food fraud can be defined as “the deliberate and intentional substitution, addition, tampering, or misrepresentation of food, food ingredients, or food packaging; or false or…
Making Changes Stick: Consumer Research on New Year’s Diet Resolutions
Download the full report. Survey Highlights 58% of respondents did not make dietary changes at the start of the New Year. Of those (42%) who reported making…
Consumer Survey on Plant Alternatives to Meat Shows That Nutrition Facts Are More Influential Than the Ingredients List
Download the full report. Survey Highlights 66% of respondents identified as omnivores. Nearly half (49%) have tried a plant alternative to animal meat. Based on comparing Nutrition Facts labels, 45% believed the plant alternative was healthier than animal…
Nutrient Density: Consumer Understanding, Perceptions and Behaviors
Download the full report. Many Americans make food and beverage decisions every day with the goal of eating a healthy, well-balanced diet. Most people are generally aware…
Food, Health and the Gen X-Factor: A Generation Concerned About Weight and Relationships Between Diet and Disease
Download the full report. (Washington, D.C.)—Generation X got its name because it was considered to be harder to describe or understand—think “planet X” or “the X factor”—than…
Consumer Research on Sustainable Eating and Food Waste
Consumers Strongly Believe Both Animal- and Plant-Based Diets Can Be Sustainable; Leftovers, Fresh Produce Are Wasted Far More Often Than Meat, Dairy Products IFIC Foundation Releases Surveys…
Consumers’ Attitudes and Perceptions of Environmentally Sustainable and Healthy Diets
Cultivating Diets That Are Both Healthy and Environmentally Sustainable Download the full report. As found in IFIC’s 2019 Food and Health Survey, environmental sustainability has become increasingly…
