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Journal of Consumer Behaviour
It's good for me: It has added fibre! An exploration of the role of different categories of functional foods in consumer diets2012 •
Superfoods have emerged as an increasingly significant category of health food products and related popular discourse about food, health, and values. They are celebrated for their purported extraordinary nutritional and/or medicinal values, " natural " qualities, associations with " exotic " or " pristine " places of origin, and histories of traditional or indigenous use; in short, they are represented as utopian edibles providing not only a nutritional panacea but also an antidote to overly-technological and industrial modern food production practices. The term appears prominently in marketing, on product packaging, and in the media, where tentative scientific conclusions and studies funded by economically-interested parties tend to be presented unproblematically as facts (Weitkamp and Eidsvaag 2014). However, the term " superfood " defies precise definition, and both products and discourse and poorly understood by the public and regulatory bodies, leading to confusion as to what a food with such a label promises. Based on textual and visual analysis of superfoods books and product packaging, and focus group interviews with superfoods consumers, this paper presents a distillation of the discursive construction of " superfoods " as utopian foodstuffs. It demonstrates that the concept of superfoods is a composite of ideas about food, health, and values, and their associated politics, deeply embedded in Western thought and practice, and illustrates how superfoods have emerged and developed at the intersection of discourses of functional nutritionism (Scrinis 2013), nutritional primitivism (Knight 2015), and critical consumption (Yates 2011). Yet these discourses are not uncontested; because superfoods are positioned as existing between established social categories such as food and medicine, nature and culture, primitive and modern, they are both alluring and confusing to consumers and thus provide a distinctive lens through which to examine the tensions that pull at contemporary food culture. Understanding the real hopes, fears, anxieties, and moral dilemmas expressed through superfoods enables us to locate points of possibility to broaden discussions about " good " , " healthy " , and " fair " food and food systems, and how to achieve these goals, in ways that move beyond discursive dualisms and recognise the complexity of values that constitute contemporary foodscapes.
2018 •
Follow this and additional works at: https://arrow.dit.ie/tfschcafrep Part of the Agricultural and Resource Economics Commons, Anthropology Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Food Studies Commons, French and Francophone Language and Literature Commons, German Language and Literature Commons, History Commons, Medieval Studies Commons, and the Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies Commons
2009 •
Dietary Sugars and Health: From Biology to Policy (Goran MI, Tappy L, Lê K-A (eds))
Social aspects of dietary sugars2014 •
KEY POINTS • Introduction • Begins with Mintz’s [1] landmark work on sugar. • Three decades later, sugary products are now consumer items in the contemporary era of global food corporations, mass consumption, and food marketing. • This chapter considers the experiences that sugary products evoke via sensory and social meanings. • This is done by paying attention to advertising slogans and campaigns of well-known sugary consumer products. • The experience of sugars: space, time, and reward • Meaning in sugary foods is often implicitly created and communicated through slogans, labels, and placement of foods. • These foods can either create time or save time, evoke the local or the exotic. • The feeling sugars inspire can be interpreted as refreshing, enjoyable, satiating or rewarding (sugar-free equivalents are less-commonly advertised in this way). • Sugars and identity: clear brands, ambivalent consumption • Products can reinforce identity and status. • Sugars have ambiguous positions; use of sugars as a reward can be considered good or bad parenting; sugars may be framed as natural and synthetic/refined; shared and secretive. • Conclusion • Our preference for sugars and sweetness is linked to biological and social factors. • When Mintz wrote in 1985, meanings were created at the intersections between consumers and larger political forces. • Today these meanings are more often created by corporations for the purposes of selling food products.
International journal of obesity (2005)
A workshop on 'Dietary Sweetness-Is It an Issue?2018 •
This report summarises a workshop convened by ILSI Europe on 3 and 4 April 2017 to discuss the issue of dietary sweetness. The objectives were to understand the roles of sweetness in the diet, establish whether exposure to sweetness affects diet quality and energy intake, and consider whether sweetness per se affects health. Although there may be evidence for tracking of intake of some sweet components of the diet through childhood, evidence for tracking of whole diet sweetness, or through other stages of maturity are lacking. The evidence to date does not support adverse effects of sweetness on diet quality or energy intake, except where sweet food choices increase intake of free sugars. There is some evidence for improvements in diet quality and reduced energy intake where sweetness without calories replaces sweetness with calories. There is a need to understand the physiological and metabolic relevance of sweet taste receptors on the tongue, in the gut and elsewhere in the body, ...
2019 •
Food and Nutrition Sciences
Uncovering Consumer Mindsets Regarding Raw BeveragesCorrespondences 11:1
Translating Esotericism: Scepticism, Optimism, Agency2016 •
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Low-molecular-weight heparins for managing vaso-occlusive crises in people with sickle cell disease2013 •
2022 •
il 996 - Rivista del Centro Studi Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli
Lu Santo Jullare Francesco: Dario Fo tra giullari, dialetto e tradizione popolare2023 •
Nobel Bilimsel Eserler
Dünyada ve Türkiye’de İklim Değişikliği Kaynaklı Kayıp ve Zararlar, Etkilere Uyum ve Dirençlilik2024 •
La traducción desde, en y hacia Latinoamérica: perspectivas literarias y lingüísticas. Silke Jansen/Gesine Müller (eds). Iberoamericana/Vervuert
El llamado "español latino" de los doblajes cinematográficos en la encrucijada entre el español mexicano, el "español general" y el "español neutro"2017 •
2018 •
Jurnal Perspektif Pembiayaan dan Pembangunan Daerah
Tingkat Ketergantungan Fiskal dan Hubungannya dengan Pertumbuhan Ekonomi di Kota JambiJournal of Economics, Finance and Accounting Studies
An Exploratory Analysis of Related Macroeconomic Indicators as Determinants to Economic Growth2022 •
Ciência da Informação em Revista
Potenciais riscos à privacidade de dados pessoais em Serviços de Redes Sociais Online2024 •
Nutrición hospitalaria
Antioxidant responses of damiana (Turnera diffusa Willd) to exposure to artificial ultraviolet (UV) radiation in an in vitro model; part ii; UV-B radiation2014 •
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