“…Substantial research has been conducted on the impact of the pandemic on food consumption in European countries such as Italy (Di Renzo et al, 2020;Fanelli, 2021;Caso et al, 2022), Spain (Batlle-Bayer et al, 2020), Poland (Sidor and Rzymski, 2020), Turkey (Kaya et al, 2021), and in American countries like Brazil (Ferreira Rodrigues et al, 2021;Manica-Cattani et al, 2022), United States (Chenarides et al, 2021;Parekh et al, 2021), as well as Asian nations such as Qatar (Ben Hassen et al, 2020), Japan , India (Jaacks et al, 2021), Iran (Mohajeri et al, 2021) and Bangladesh (Akter et al, 2022). All these provide important basis for this paper.…”