Convenience food products. Drivers for consumption

Brunner, Thomas A.; Horst, Klazine van der; Siegrist, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2010.08.017

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“…Apart from the methodological limitations of available studies, the changes in lifestyle during the last decades, for example, increased sedentary behaviour [25][26][27] and the steadily increasing consumption of convenience food, 28 are likely to have changed usual energy and macronutrient intakes over years. The limited studies available in children from European countries report decreasing trends for overall energy and fat intake and increasing trends for carbohydrate intake [29][30][31] or stable fat intakes.…”

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Usual energy and macronutrient intakes in 2–9-year-old European children

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on behalf of the IDEFICS and the I.Family consortia OBJECTIVE: Valid estimates of population intakes are essential for monitoring trends as well as for nutritional interventions, but such data are rare in young children. In particular, the problem of misreporting in dietary data is usually not accounted for. Therefore, this study aims to provide accurate estimates of intake distributions in European children. DESIGN: Cross-sectional setting-based multi-centre study. SUBJECTS: A total of 9560 children aged 2-9 years from eight European countries with at least one 24-h dietary recall (24-HDR). METHODS: The 24-HDRs were classified in three reporting groups based on age-and sex-specific Goldberg cutoffs (underreports, plausible reports, overreports). Only plausible reports were considered in the final analysis (N = 8611 children). The National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Method was applied to estimate population distributions of usual intakes correcting for the variance inflation in short-term dietary data. RESULTS: The prevalence of underreporting (9.5%) was higher compared with overreporting (3.4%). Exclusion of misreports resulted in a shift of the energy and absolute macronutrient intake distributions to the right, and further led to the exclusion of extreme values, that is, mean values and lower percentiles increased, whereas upper percentiles decreased. The distributions of relative macronutrient intakes (% energy intake from fat/carbohydrates/proteins) remained almost unchanged when excluding misreports. Application of the NCI-Method resulted in markedly narrower intake distributions compared with estimates based on single 24-HDRs. Mean percentages of usual energy intake from fat, carbohydrates and proteins were 32.2, 52.1 and 15.7%, respectively, suggesting the majority of European children are complying with common macronutrient intake recommendations. In contrast, total water intake (mean: 1216.7 ml per day) lay below the recommended value for 490% of the children. CONCLUSION: This study provides recent estimates of intake distributions of European children correcting for misreporting as well as for the daily variation in dietary data. These data may help to assess the adequacy of young children's diets in Europe.

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“…Cluster 3 was associated with post-New Year and 2005 time periods. Such 'grab and go' foods, such as soups, breakfast cereals and yoghurt, are particularly relevant for the magazines' target audience, considering that young people who have recently left home often have limited cooking skills and rely on takeaways and convenience foods (46,47) . To boot, convenience food advertising has been shown to be prominent across a broad spectrum of British magazines (15,16) .…”

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Temporality in British young women's magazines: food, cooking and weight loss

Spencer

Russell

Barker

2013

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: The present study examines seasonal and temporal patterns in foodrelated content of two UK magazines for young women focusing on food types, cooking and weight loss. Design: Content analysis of magazines from three time blocks between 1999 and 2011. Setting: Desk-based study. Subjects: Ninety-seven magazines yielding 590 advertisements and 148 articles. Results: Cluster analysis of type of food advertising produced three clusters of magazines, which reflected recognised food behaviours of young women: vegetarianism, convenience eating and weight control. The first cluster of magazines was associated with Christmas and Millennium time periods, with advertising of alcohol, coffee, cheese, vegetarian meat substitutes and weightloss pills. Recipes were prominent in article content and tended to be for cakes/ desserts, luxury meals and party food. The second cluster was associated with summer months and 2010 issues. There was little advertising for conventional foods in cluster 2, but strong representation of diet plans and foods for weight loss. Weight-loss messages in articles focused on short-term aesthetic goals, emphasising speedy weight loss without giving up nice foods or exercising. Cluster 3 magazines were associated with post-New Year and 2005 periods. Food advertising was for everyday foods and convenience products, with fewer weight-loss products than other clusters; conversely, article content had a greater prevalence of weight-loss messages. Conclusions: The cyclical nature of magazine content -indulgence and excess encouraged at Christmas, restraint recommended post-New Year and severe dieting advocated in the summer months -endorses yo-yo dieting behaviour and may not be conducive to public health.

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“…While convenience food has received scholarly attention, foremost in establishing understandings of its link to health deterioration ( Jabs and Devine, 2006), identifying individual consumption motives (Brunner et al, 2010;Veflen Olsen, 2012;Costa et al, 2007) or segmentation studies and buyer behaviour (Ahlgren et al, 2005;McCullough et al, 2003;Shiu et al, 2004), less attention is paid to the way in the abundance of convenience food shapes food competences especially in novice practitioners (e.g. Caraher et al, 2004;Jaffe and Gertler, 2006;Ternier, 2010).…”

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“…Such processed convenience food was brought to consumers under the guise of comfort, alleviating time pressures and requiring minimal competences, while still being a pleasure to consume (Warde, 1999). The current food environment is demarcated by a vast array of processed food products that aim to save time, physical and mental effort in the planning, preparation and eating of food (Brunner et al, 2010).…”

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How convenient!? Adolescents’ vistas on food competences in a convenience context

Wahlen

Horst

Pothoff

2016

BFJ

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Purpose Adolescents are at a stage in their life course in which they increasingly become choosers, buyers and preparers of food. Hence, they develop and employ required competences. Current food-related competences of adolescents are shaped in an environment with an abundance of convenience foods. Simultaneously food education has been limited in many western countries. The purpose of this paper is to scrutinize how young practitioners engage with the notion of convenience in a context with a strong presence of convenience foods. Design/methodology/approach Empirical data for this paper have been collected in a Dutch high school context following a participatory approach in focus group discussions. Data have been gathered from different food-related exercises within a classroom context. Findings The findings indicate that adolescents’ food competences and meanings are heavily shaped by the abundant presence of convenience foods. Adolescents perceive a nuanced picture of a skilful consumer that incorporates convenience foods in ways that minimize time efforts, preserves some preparatory tasks for fun cooking and has knowledge about health effects of fatty and salty foods. Originality/value The investigation takes a novel look on convenience food consumption from a practice perspective scrutinizing competences through the lens of adolescent practitioners. The authors make a plea for tapping into the potential of research on children and adolescents as novice performers of practices to understand how practices are shaped and changed and how practices recruit new practitioners.

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Convenience food products. Drivers for consumption

Cited by 294 publications

References 29 publications

Usual energy and macronutrient intakes in 2–9-year-old European children

Usual energy and macronutrient intakes in 2–9-year-old European children

Temporality in British young women's magazines: food, cooking and weight loss

How convenient!? Adolescents’ vistas on food competences in a convenience context

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