The former address relatively uncontroversial nutrition facts while the latter deal with popular beliefs about health food products in addition to the factual information. In measures of consumer nutrition knowledge, a distinction was proposed between general nutrition knowledge items and health-food-related items. Young, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Joel Saegert, The University of Texas at San AntonioĮleanor A. Andrew Mitchell, Ann Abor, MI : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 342-347.Īdvances in Consumer Research VolPages 342-347ĭISTINGUISHING BETWEEM TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF CONSUMER NUTRITION KNOWLEDGE Young (1982) ,"Distinguishing Betweem Two Different Kinds of Consumer Nutrition Knowledge", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 09, eds. Previous measures of consumer nutrition knowledge have not distinguished between the two types of knowledge items. Data from a survey of 601 consumers suggested that the association between health-food-related knowledge and nutrition behavior could be accounted for by health food attitudes as measured by Fishbein operationalizations this was not the case for general nutrition items.
ABSTRACT - In measures of consumer nutrition knowledge, a distinction was proposed between general nutrition knowledge items and health-food-related items.