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Understanding food choice: A systematic review of reviews.
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59 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The Association between Community Food Environments and Health Outcomes in High-Income Countries: A Systematic Literature Review.Current nutrition reports · 2025Pooled it
- Personal, Normative, and Access-Related Correlates of Fruit and Vegetable Purchase Intention in Peruvian Adults.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Preferences for Meat and Meat Alternatives in Different Meal Scenarios: A Dutch Discrete Choice Experiment.Current developments in nutrition · 2026Article
- Traditional Dairy and Olive Food Preferences Are Associated with Mediterranean Diet Adherence in Cyprus.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Healthy and Sustainable Food Choices in European Households: A Cross-Cultural Study of Knowledge, Practices, Intentions, and Barriers.Nutrients · 2026Article
- The effect of education provided to university students on sustainable nutrition: a comparison of ChatGPT and individual nutrition education.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Age-Related Differences in Knowledge-Attitude-Practice Patterns of Nonnutritive Sweetener Consumption among Adolescents and Adults: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Southeast Nigeria.Current developments in nutrition · 2026Article
- Does Feeling Bad Lead to Eating Bad? How Emotion, Deliciousness (Mis)match, and Weight Status Alter Food Choice and ERPs.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Emotional Eating and Its Associations with the Prevalence of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms in University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Fruit and vegetable intake among rural populations in the United States, by sociodemographic characteristics, behavioral risk factor surveillance system 2019, 2021.Nutrition and health · 2026Article
- Is there a healthy-food premium? A cross-sectional analysis of the UK online food delivery sector.Health promotion international · 2026Article
- Associations between Determinants of Food Choice and the Healthy Eating Index-2020 in Adults: An NHANES 2017-March 2020 Analysis.Current developments in nutrition · 2026Article
- Determinants of out-of-home food consumption: development and validation of a multidimensional scale in a Brazilian sample.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Consumers' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Sensory Perception of Soilless-Grown Strawberries in the Context of Sustainable Diet.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Expected Liking of and Emotional Responses to Alternative Protein Burger Patties Among a Convenience Sample of UK Meat Eaters.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Ultra-processed food intake in relation to anthropometrics and biomarkers of cardiometabolic health among Swedish children: a cross-sectional study within the GraviD-Child cohort.BMC nutrition · 2026Article
- Understandings of ultra-processed foods among adults with responsibility for household food activities in the United Kingdom: a qualitative study.BMC global and public health · 2026Article
- Beyond the funding crisis: what the next European budget means for public health.European journal of public health · 2026Article
- Taste Preferences Shape Disease Susceptibility via Heritable Nutrient Predispositions: A Behavior-Gene Coevolution Framework.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2026Article
- Evaluating select factors and mechanisms influencing meat consumption in Baltimore City: an agent-based modeling study.BMC public health · 2026Article
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Abstract
The topic of consumer food choice has received much attention among researchers and stakeholders within the food industry. However, in order to better facilitate food consumption towards a more sustainable direction, we need increased knowledge and understanding of factors that influence consumers' food choice. This study is a systematic review of reviews conducted between 2017 and 2021, summarising and synthesising reviews on food choice. The aim is to provide an update of the current knowledge on consumer food choice, point out what is already known, and identify knowledge gaps to enable a prioritisation for future research. The analysis highlights decisive factors in food choice, i.e. product, available information, price, context, personal and group influences and sensory perceptions. The synthesis of findings follows a socioecological model, integrating four different levels of the social and environmental systems: the physical food environment, the social and community level, interpersonal relations and, finally, individual characteristics such as psychological and behavioural factors. Results show that behavioural patterns, influenced by strong informal institutions, such as culture and norms, can be difficult to break; for example, changing into more sustainable food behaviour. The findings suggest that more interdisciplinary research and studies in real-life settings are needed to grasp the complexity of food choice. This would allow for us to better understand consumers as social beings shaped by, among other things, the physical environment, social interactions, and culture.
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