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Application of the food choice questionnaire across cultures: Systematic review of cross-cultural and single country studies

Cunha, Luís Miguel, Cabral, Diva, Moura, Ana Pinto, de Almeida, Maria Daniel Vaz·2018·Food Quality and Preference

Abstract

The Food Choice Questionnaire (FCQ) is a 36-item instrument assessing the importance of a number of factors that influence food choice: “health”, “sensory appeal”, “price”, “convenience”, “mood”, “natural content”, “weight control”, “familiarity” and “ethical concern”. The FCQ already counts with applications from over 40 countries and its translation into more than 20 languages. The main objective of this paper is to review the application of the FCQ across cultures considering both cross-cultural and single country studies. A systematic review has been performed enclosing all the studies that apply the FCQ (in full, partially or following an adaptation) referred in the Web of Science and/or Scopus. After the scrutiny of more than 1,000 articles, 71 original articles were retrieved for this analysis. For each article, the following methodological aspects were considered: type of application, response scales, translation, scope, sampling procedures and data analysis strategies. For a smaller set of articles, reporting five cross-cultural studies (fully applying the FCQ), an additional analysis was performed to evaluate response styles, compare scale usage between countries and identify the most and least relevant food choice criteria. Several studies have shown the invariance of the FCQ across cultures, while others present the need for adaptations of the FCQ. Critical appraisal suggests that the original set of items should be adapted to accommodate the different cultures under study and that response scales should have a large number of points. The major conclusion is the strong lack of uniformity of procedures across the different studies hindering an adequate comparison of results between cultures.

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  • The study's findings support that health and hedonism (or sensory appeal) rank as top priorities in consumers' minds.

    “Findings support the general notion that health and hedonism (or sensory appeal) rank as top priorities in consumers' minds (for a review, see Cunha, Cabral, Moura, & de Almeida, 2018) and provide empirical evidence suggesting that the combination of being convenience oriented, concerned about weight gain,”

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Authors
Cunha, L. M., Cabral, D., Moura, A. P., & de Almeida, M. D. V.
Affiliations
  • Universidade do Porto (PT)
  • Universidade Aberta (PT)
Corresponding author
Cunha, Luís Miguel
Venue
Food Quality and Preference
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2018-03
Volume
64
Pages
21-36
ISSN
0950-3293 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2762550312
Cited by
196
References
117
Citations by year
2026: 19 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 31 · 2023: 28 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 29 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 5
FWCI
1.07
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Food Quality and Preference (publishedVersion)
  • Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Sensory Analysis and Statistical Methods
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
Keywords
Food Choice Questionnaire, food choice, cross-cultural adaptation, measurement invariance, response styles, scale translation, food choice criteria, sensory appeal, price, convenience, ethical considerations, familiarity, weight management, mood

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