Unfamiliar Familiarity: A Scoping Review on the Role of Familiarity in Consumer Acceptance of Cultivated Meat

Appetite, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 108000 - 108000

Published: April 1, 2025

The potential introduction of cultivated meat products to the market, framed as sustainable alternative conventional animal-source foods, underscores need examine psychological barriers and predisposing factors influencing consumer acceptance. Familiarity is often considered a facilitating factor, based on premise that higher familiarity with associated greater However, evidence remains contradictory poorly integrated. This review examines organizes literature its influence A scoping peer-reviewed grey was conducted June 7, 2024, following PRISMA-ScR Joanna Briggs Institute guidelines. Comprehensive searches across Scopus, Web Science, PubMed, PsycInfo included no restrictions participant type, geographic location, social cultural contexts, language, or publication time. 63 articles were analyzed (i) definitions familiarity, (ii) methodologies measuring meat, (iii) regarding acceptance meat. Results indicate current research largely non-representative samples, data recency limitations, inconsistent operationalization. conflated related yet distinct constructs awareness knowledge, revealing lack clarity in literature. also identified various approaches for assessing all lacking psychometric rigor, hindering replicability comparability findings. highlights further clarify theoretical operational definition role

Language: Английский

A mixed-methods exploration of regular consumers’ experiences of plant-based meat alternatives (PBMA) in Singapore and the United Kingdom

Future Foods, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 100641 - 100641

Published: April 1, 2025

Language: Английский