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With the global meat market growing and intensive livestock farming systems increasing, the impacts of livestock are a growing concern among consumers, further influencing their meat...

Food production is one of the main contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. China, as a rapidly developing economy, contributes to an unsustainable food system as its consumption...

Highlights The paper investigated the effect of risk preferences on consumption intentions of meat analogues. Risk attitudes were determined from self-reported and a lottery-style hybrid experiment. The intent...

Unhealthy diet is a leading factor for death and disability globally (WHO, 2021). Chinese diets have shifted substantially from the traditional plant-based diets to animal- and plant-based diets...

Protein has a singularly prominent place in discussions about food. It symbolises fitness, strength and masculinity, motherhood and care. It is the preferred macronutrient of affluence and education...

Highlights Various plant-based proteins have been tested for structuring meat analogues. Cysteine-rich proteins are preferred to build fibrous structures via crosslinking. Efficiency...

Highlights Two on-line experiments were used to evaluate the effect of vegan and meat-sounding labelling on plant-based products. In the first study the meat-sounding labelling influenced positively...

In recent decades there has been a sustained and substantial shift in human diets across the globe towards including more livestock-derived foods. Continuing debates scrutinize...