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NUTRIENTS
Volume 14, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nu14061246
Keywords
innovation; consumer behavior; fruit market
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- Intelligent Development Operational Program 2014-2020 (Faculty of Horticulture, Biotechnology and Landscape Architecture) [513-01-040900P00064-04]
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The study found that consumers willing to purchase innovative products are more likely to consume fruits and fruit preserves, with significant differences in income, purchase expenditures, purchase locations, and product characteristics. Logistic regression results indicate that the frequency of supermarket/hypermarket and online shopping, weekly spending on fruit, and emphasis on packaging biodegradability can impact consumer preferences for innovative products relative to fruit products.
Due to the low level of fruit consumption in relation to dietary recommendations in many European countries, including Poland, multidirectional actions should be taken to increase the consumption of these products. One of the ideas could be the introduction of innovative products. The main goal of the study is to determine the relationship between consumer propensity to purchase innovative products and the frequency of consumption of fruits and their preserves of consumers. The research sample consisted of 600 respondents who declared to consume fruit and were responsible for food shopping in their households. The results obtained indicate that consumers with a higher propensity to purchase innovative products consumed fruit and fruit preserves more. In addition, statistically significant differences were found between innovators and non-innovators in terms of income, expenditures on fruit purchases, places where fruit and fruit preserves were purchased and product characteristics that determined the purchase decision. The logistic regression results indicate that a higher frequency of supermarket/hypermarket and online shopping, a higher weekly spending on fruit and a greater importance attributed to the biodegradability of the packaging increased the favorability of innovation relatively to fruit products (by 23.8%, 31.4%, 32.7% and 21.6%, respectively). The relationships found may have important implications for both private and public stakeholders in the fruit and vegetable sector.
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