The Sustainable Food Choice
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Consumer Food Behavior
- 1st Edition - August 1, 2025
- Latest edition
- Editor: Valentina Carfora
- Language: English
The Sustainable Food Choice: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Consumer Food Behaviour explores the intricate relationship between individual preferences, societal norms, and global… Read more
The Sustainable Food Choice: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Consumer Food Behaviour explores the intricate relationship between individual preferences, societal norms, and global challenges in the pursuit of sustainable eating habits. Featuring contributions from experts across various fields, the book delves into the nutritional, social, and psychological foundations of food choices, the influence of technology and innovation, and the role of policy in guiding consumer behavior. Through comprehensive analysis and case studies, it offers a roadmap for promoting environmentally friendly and health-conscious food consumption patterns.
The book is structured into three sections, with each part focusing on unique aspects of sustainable eating. Highlights include chapters on psychological predictors of food choices, the impact of political attitudes, mindfulness in eating, front-of-package labeling, and smartphone interventions. It provides a holistic understanding of how science, mindfulness, and technology can be leveraged to encourage sustainable food choices.
The book is structured into three sections, with each part focusing on unique aspects of sustainable eating. Highlights include chapters on psychological predictors of food choices, the impact of political attitudes, mindfulness in eating, front-of-package labeling, and smartphone interventions. It provides a holistic understanding of how science, mindfulness, and technology can be leveraged to encourage sustainable food choices.
- Incorporates diverse perspectives to bridge the gap between knowledge and actionable ideas to promote more sustainable eating habits
- Assesses psychological predictors of sustainable food choices
- Showcases smartphone technology to promote sustainable food choices
- Explores individual differences in sustainable eating through political, environmental, sociological, and emotional influences
Researchers in the food sciences in the field of nutrition, sustainability and consumer food science
Part 1: Holistic perspectives in sustainable food consumption
1. Interdisciplinary Trends in the Promotion of Sustainable Food Choices
2. A Trans-Disciplinary Approach to the Assessment of Sustainable Food Consumption
Part 2: The Psychological Science Behind Consumer Food Choice
3. The Social Psychology of Eating
4. Individual Differences in Healthy and Sustainable Food Choices
5. Political Ideology and Sustainable Eating: The Role of Values, Disgust Sensitivity, and Food Neophobia
6. The role of implicit attitudes and automatic processes in sustainable food choices
7. Feeling sustainability: The role of emotions in pro-environmental food choice
8. Food choices and religion: The case of the United Arab Emirates
9. Food waste (un)sustainability: A social-psychological perspective
10. Acceptance of novel food and the role of psychological food involvement
11. Psychological factors affecting the consumption intention for 3d bioprinted meat: A neural network-based decision support system analysis
Part 3: Promoting Sustainable Food Choices at the Individual Level
12. Mindfulness, mindful eating, and sustainable diets
13. Self-Regulation as a Strategy for Reducing Meat Consumption
14. Framing Messages for Promoting Sustainable Food Choices
15. Smartphone interventions to promote sustainable food choices
Part 4: Population-level Strategies
16. Population-level interventions for sustainable food consumption
17. The impact of Front-of-package Labeling on Sustainable Food Choices
18. The role of sustainable production attributes and certification in determining consumer choices
19. Promoting sustainable food choices in settings through choice architecture interventions
Part 5: Scaling up: Strategic approaches to sustainable food systems and local food policies
20. Deconstructing Perceptions on Mediterranean Diet with Q-methodology: Myth vs. Truths
21. Measuring the Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in Adult Population
22. Sustainable consumption patterns within consumers’ Food Coops
23. The Sustainability in Urban Food Policy
1. Interdisciplinary Trends in the Promotion of Sustainable Food Choices
2. A Trans-Disciplinary Approach to the Assessment of Sustainable Food Consumption
Part 2: The Psychological Science Behind Consumer Food Choice
3. The Social Psychology of Eating
4. Individual Differences in Healthy and Sustainable Food Choices
5. Political Ideology and Sustainable Eating: The Role of Values, Disgust Sensitivity, and Food Neophobia
6. The role of implicit attitudes and automatic processes in sustainable food choices
7. Feeling sustainability: The role of emotions in pro-environmental food choice
8. Food choices and religion: The case of the United Arab Emirates
9. Food waste (un)sustainability: A social-psychological perspective
10. Acceptance of novel food and the role of psychological food involvement
11. Psychological factors affecting the consumption intention for 3d bioprinted meat: A neural network-based decision support system analysis
Part 3: Promoting Sustainable Food Choices at the Individual Level
12. Mindfulness, mindful eating, and sustainable diets
13. Self-Regulation as a Strategy for Reducing Meat Consumption
14. Framing Messages for Promoting Sustainable Food Choices
15. Smartphone interventions to promote sustainable food choices
Part 4: Population-level Strategies
16. Population-level interventions for sustainable food consumption
17. The impact of Front-of-package Labeling on Sustainable Food Choices
18. The role of sustainable production attributes and certification in determining consumer choices
19. Promoting sustainable food choices in settings through choice architecture interventions
Part 5: Scaling up: Strategic approaches to sustainable food systems and local food policies
20. Deconstructing Perceptions on Mediterranean Diet with Q-methodology: Myth vs. Truths
21. Measuring the Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in Adult Population
22. Sustainable consumption patterns within consumers’ Food Coops
23. The Sustainability in Urban Food Policy
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: August 1, 2025
- Language: English
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Valentina Carfora
Valentina Carfora, PhD, is a Professor of Social Psychology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. Her research primarily focuses on applied social psychology, health psychology, and consumer psychology. She investigates the psychological mechanisms underlying behavior change, with a particular emphasis on the effects of persuasive communication—such as message framing and digital tailored interventions—on promoting sustainable and health-oriented behaviors. These include increased fruit and vegetable consumption, reduced meat intake, the incorporation of novel foods, organic and locally sourced food choices, sustainable fashion consumption, and regular physical activity.
Affiliations and expertise
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, ItalyRead The Sustainable Food Choice on ScienceDirect