Self-Selected Diets: Exploring the Factors Driving Food Choices and Satisfaction with Dietary Variety July 2024
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Food choices determine the nutrients and other substances that build and maintain our bodies as well as consumer demand for food products. People choose specific foods, and those choices are strongly influenced by many factors. Our goal was to examine the reasons participants gave for choosing each of the foods they consumed during a 4-week study, how those influencers differed for different food classes, and whether the influencers predicted satisfaction with their dietary variety.
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Liking had the greatest influence on food choice. Liking increased satisfaction with variety. Convenience reduced satisfaction with variety.
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This research was supported in part by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA; NNX12AE56G), the Minnesota Agricultural experiment station project MN-18-081, and the Sensory Center at the University of Minnesota Department of Food Science and Nutrition
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Ehrmantraut, Lauren; Mann, Traci; Redden, Joseph; Helwig, Nathaniel; Vickers, Zata. (2025). Self-Selected Diets: Exploring the Factors Driving Food Choices and Satisfaction with Dietary Variety July 2024. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/275123.
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