Consumers are now smart buggers, knowing more than ever before! This influences food products.
What are knowledgeable consumers?
These types of products are pre-prepared in some way and they are widely available in supermarkets. Can be measured in different ways, including time spent on preparing food, accessing food, consuming food, etc.
What is convenience?
These products need stable prices, decent working conditions for all workers. Australians are more likely to support someone in need over a product that does not have a charitable aspect.
What is fair trading?
Way of producing large amounts of crops or animal products by using chemicals and/or contemporary technology.
What is intensively farmed foods?
There is an abundance of this protein source, examples include kangaroo, crocodile.
What is bush food?
Consumers want to know where their food is grown and produced. They want more of these products.
What are natural and organic?
55% of consumers don't care whether the groceries they buy are private labelled or premium brands. Money is important, particularly saving it. They want value for the money they spend.
What is budget?
Consumers take a moral and ethical stance on using genes to produce products.
What are genetically modified foods?
Addition of nutrients that are not naturally present in the food or the addition of amounts greater than those naturally present.
What is fortification?
Pregnant women need it this and are fortified in bread in Australia.
What is folic acid?
Fresh refrigerated lasagne, frozen meals, and that cooked chook in the deli are some examples of this.
What are read-to-eat foods?
Quantity, quality and price are all factors that a consumer will consider when purchasing food items, and therefore drivers of consumer purchasing decisions.
What is perceived quality?
What is animal welfare?
Beneficial bacteria can be introduced to food items such as yoghurt.
What are probiotics?
Has twice the protein content of rice or barley.
What is quinoa?
This growing in numbers group of consumers have a greater risk of foodborne illness.
What are the ageing population?
Moral principles that govern an individual's behaviour and can influence purchasing decisions.
What are ethics and culture?
Buying "ugly" fresh food at supermarkets is one example to reduce thsi.
What is food waste?
What is entomophagy?
What is road kill?
Made by Cow uses this process, it's not pasteurisation.
What is HPP? High Pressure Processing
Direct impact on purchasing decisions made by consumers.
What are traditional consumer food drivers?
It is law in Australia to what country the food comes from that consumers are buying.
What is country of origin?
Meat grown in a cell culture instead of inside an animal.
What is synthetic meat?
What at the sectors of the food system?