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Purdue University's College of Agriculture leads globally in the science and business of agriculture, food, life, and natural resources, positively changing the world through our unwavering commitment ...
In this edition, we explore what consumers think about healthy diets and examine responses by self-rated diet quality. Additional questions explore consumer perceptions of and preferences for healthy ...
New questions this month explore consumer experiences with food prices and home food production. How do consumers describe current grocery prices? How are they adapting? Are they producing their own ...
Rajiv is a PhD scholar at Plaksha University (Mohali, India), specializing in Computer Vision and Geospatial Intelligence, with a focus on AI and machine learning applications in remote sensing, ...
In this edition, we explore the last three years of CFI data disaggregated by U.S. Census region: (1) Northeast, (2) Midwest, (3) South and (4) West. Additional questions this month measure consumer ...
Key insights include: Taste, affordability and nutrition remain the key attributes factored into food purchases, over social and environmental impact. Most (84%) hurricane-impacted consumers sheltered ...
The twenty-second Consumer Food Insights from Purdue University explores consumer food behaviors related to Thanksgiving across U.S. regions ...
Find deeper insight and analysis into food and agriculture trends and topics with blog posts, podcasts, articles, research papers, and other publications from the CFDAS team of experts.
How easy or difficult is it for consumers to know how healthy a food is when looking at the packaging? Diet quality plays a role. Consumers with excellent diets find it significantly easier to ...
Consumer self-assessed diet well-being remains high, with around 67% scoring their diet a 7-10 on the 10-point Cantril Scale. Diet well-being is highest among high-income consumers (75% ‘thriving’) ...
Key insights include: The Sustainable Food Purchasing (SFP) Index rose 2 points, up to 72 from 70 in March 2024. Consumer familiarity with the farm bill is low, with the majority of American adults ...
You can find dashboards with food cost data at Purdue Agriculture’s Center for Food Demand Analysis and Sustainability, as well as data on a number of shopping and eating habits through Consumer Food ...