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Consumers’ Attitudes towards Innovations in the Food Market

Summary/Abstract: Innovativeness as the man’s personality trait displays diversified intensity, being reflected in different behaviours of the individual towards new phenomena. This general statement is also reflected in consumers’ innovativeness and their behaviours towards new market phenomena. Due to different determinants of consumers’ behaviours towards food and non-food products, there is undertaken research aimed at identification of the essence of consumers’ attitudes towards innovations in the food market. In result of carried out surveys, both qualitative and quantitative, within the framework of the project BIOFOOD – innovative, functional products of animal origin, the author states that consumers, speaking of “innovative food products”, most often understand foods in new flavour versions as well as foods of higher quality and healthy values. However, the most often perceived change in the market for food is an increase of the offer of the products, for which specific is reduced allergising action, as well as the products with a reduced content of artificial components, especially preservatives. The perceived by consumers changes are characterised by a different degree of acceptance, and the overwhelming majority of respondents have negative attitudes to food ‘improvement’ by way of enrichments thereof with various ingredients. In general, there is noted a negligible per cent of consumers declaring their interest in purchasing new food products.

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