In modern societies consumers often face a trade-off between health and taste, the latter which encourages consumption … of the health value of a given nutrient in different foods combined with decreasing marginal utilities of taste could … of fatty, salty and sweet foods, whereas health awareness discourages consumption of the same food. The resulting diet …

European statistics show that one of the most widespread source of health risks related to food is mycotoxins. The …

In this paper, we describe individual food consumption decisions as driven by a utility effect and a food environment … introduce the food environment effect by showing how the food environment can affect food consumption decisions and how this can … skew the resulting food consumption vector. Finally, we analyse manipulations of the food environment as a potential form …

Canada the regulatory environment governing health claims for functional food products is somewhat more restrictive than in … informed choices about foods with enhanced health attributes. The degree to which a particular jurisdiction permits health … claims for food products and the type of allowable health claim influence the information set available to consumers. In …

biofortified rice instead of conventional rice could prevent someone from negative health outcomes of folate deficiency, such as … be important to prevent them from having a baby with a neural-tube defect, the main adverse health outcome. As Northern … comparison of the potential health benefits of folate biofortified rice could further underpin the introduction of this strategy …