Malleability of food values amid the COVID-19 pandemic Academic Article

abstract

• Abstract Food values are supposed to be stable. This paper tests this assumption by comparing food values before and during the coronavirus-19 pandemic. While the ranking of food values remains very similar, there are some interesting differences in the relative importance that consumers attached to food values before and during the pandemic. A substantial decrease in the importance that consumers attach to food safety was observed during the pandemic, while there was a moderate increase in the importance attached to taste, nutrition, appearance, convenience and origin. The changes in food values vary across sociodemographic groups. Implications of the results are discussed.

authors

• Nayga, Rodolfo

published proceedings

• EUROPEAN REVIEW OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

altmetric score

• 4.6

author list (cited authors)

• Cerroni, S., Nayga, R. M., Pappalardo, G., & Yang, W.

citation count

• 4

complete list of authors

• Cerroni, Simone||Nayga, Rodolfo M||Pappalardo, Gioacchino||Yang, Wei

publication date

• January 2022

publisher

• Oxford University Press (OUP)  Publisher

published in

• European Review of Agricultural Economics  Journal

keywords

• Best-worst Scaling
• C83
• Covid-19
• D12
• Food Values
• Pandemic
• Q10
• Stay-at-home Orders

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1093/erae/jbab025

start page

• 472

end page

• 498

volume

• 49

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbab025

user-defined tag

• 2 Zero Hunger