The digital marketing of unhealthy foods and non-alcoholic beverages has a detrimental impact on children's eating behaviours, leading to adverse diet-related health outcomes. To inform the development of evidence-based strategies to protect children...
Restaurants are swiftly embracing automation to prepare food, experimenting with innovations from robotic arms for frying foods to pizza-making robots. While these advances promise to enhance efficiency and productivity, their impact on consumer psyc...
Applied psychology. Health and well-being
Aug 23, 2024
Previous research has demonstrated the influence of commensal dining between humans on food choices, whereas we conducted two studies to examine how the presence of a robot might influence people's choices between meat-heavy and vegetable-forward mea...
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
Mar 22, 2019
There are currently no standardized objective measures to evaluate beef flavor attributes, especially the comparison between raw beef and cooked beef. Beef flavor attribute is one of the most significant parameters for consumers. This study described...
OBJECTIVE: The present study tested the combination of an established and a validated food-choice research method (the 'fake food buffet') with a new food-matching technology to automate the data collection and analysis.
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
Mar 13, 2018
Steam treatment has been reported as an alternative to improve the cup quality of coffee; in this research, it was applied to C. canephora defective coffee. The aim of the study was to evaluate the sensory perception of steamed defective C. canephora...
Journal of nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics
Feb 25, 2017
BACKGROUND/AIMS: Taste is recognized as an important predictor of food choices. Thus, polymorphisms in genes encoding taste receptors may explain the variability in food preference and intake. Here, we aimed to determine whether genetic variation in ...
One major goal in decision neuroscience is to investigate the neuronal mechanisms being responsible for the computation of product preferences. The aim of the present fMRI study was to investigate whether similar patterns of brain activity, reflectin...
Food research international (Ottawa, Ont.)
Aug 1, 2025
The utilization of robots in the food industry, including restaurants and cafés, has increased in recent years. This study investigated participants' responses to robots in the serving and cooking domains, which require varying degrees of consumer in...
Applied psychology. Health and well-being
Jun 1, 2025
Previous research has shown that music robots may reshape people's perceptions of music and health-related behaviors. We investigated how the perceived identity of the music performers (humans or robots) influenced people's music-induced mental image...
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