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Moderating effects of food type and consumers' attitude on the evaluation of food items labeled “additive‐free”
Author(s) -
Song Mee Ryoung,
Im Meeja
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of consumer behaviour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.811
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1479-1838
pISSN - 1472-0817
DOI - 10.1002/cb.1671
Subject(s) - moderation , affect (linguistics) , product (mathematics) , quality (philosophy) , meaning (existential) , product type , marketing , psychology , health claims on food labels , advertising , business , categorization , social psychology , food science , mathematics , computer science , psychotherapist , programming language , philosophy , chemistry , geometry , communication , epistemology , artificial intelligence
Abstract In this article, we first examine whether “additive‐free” claims on packages affect how consumers evaluate a product and whether these claims cause a consumer to develop illusions about the nutrients or quality of the product that are irrelevant to the claim. We then expand our study to categorize products that consumers consider to be healthy and unhealthy and investigate how such product types influence the effect of additive‐free claims. In addition, we verify that consumers' general attitude towards no‐additives products affect the moderation effect of product types. The findings of this study add a new academic meaning for research related to health claims and suggest practical implications for marketers and policymakers.