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An Outline of Food Ethics (음식윤리 개요)

  • Kim, Suk-Shin
    • Food Science and Industry
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    • v.49 no.2
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    • pp.83-97
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    • 2016
  • This review was performed to outline the food ethics to the professionals in the field of food science and industries. Food ethics is the ethics or ethical consideration concerning food; while, the keywords of food ethics are a life, happiness and the wisdom. The ultimate goal as well as the first principle of food ethics is a sustainable living of human race. In order to reach the goal a coexistence of humans and nature, coexistence of humans and humans, and the fulfillment of essential requirements of a food are needed. The needs yield six categorical imperatives such as a respect for life, preservation of nature, distributive justice without deception or fakes, prior consideration of consumer, moderation and balance neither overs nor shorts, and the assurance of safety. The core principles corresponding to the categorical imperatives include a respect for life, environmental preservation, justice, priority of consumer, dynamic equilibrium, and the priority of safety. The core principles approach is a simple, clear, and practical method in solving ethical issues. The code of food ethics is also based on the core principles.

Australian Lamb Meat - The Response to Societal and Ethnic Influences

  • Hopkins, David Laurence;Fowler, Stephanie Marie
    • Food Science of Animal Resources
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    • v.38 no.4
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    • pp.653-663
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    • 2018
  • Lamb has long been considered a traditional meal within Australia; however as consumer preferences have changed since the 1950's, consumption of lamb has decreased from the 1980's. This is the result of changing societal roles, particularly for females, decreasing household sizes and increasing awareness of the impact of food choices on human health. Since the 1980's improvement of farm practices and increases in genetic gains has addressed part of this decline by increasing the amount of lean meat and decreasing fat in lamb retail cuts. Yet, this has created a challenge for the industry to utilise the larger carcases now being produced. Thus, a whole value chain approach to increasing consumption has been undertaken through several research programs to create cuts which suit the modern consumer, examine nutritional and eating quality and increase adoption of value added cuts. Therefore, this paper outlines this history of changing consumer patterns and the consequent research to address these changes.

Study of Garlic's Carbon Footprint though LCA (전과정평가를 통한 마늘의 탄소배출량 산정연구)

  • Yoon, Sung-Yee;Kim, Young-Ran;Kim, Tae-Ho;Park, Jin-Hyun;Ahn, Sung-Woo
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.161-172
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    • 2012
  • This study was carried out to estimate carbon footprint and to establish of LCA of garlic production system. We have case study in cultivate garlic 1 kg calculate in carbon footprint. LCA carried out to estimate carbon footprint and to establish of LCI (life cycle inventory) database of garlic production system. The data is from Research of Farmer's income in 2010 (RDA, 2011), and used Pass (5.0.0) program. The value of fertilizer, amount of pesticide input were shown the environmental effect and direct emission. Carbon footprint in agriculture guarantees the choice right the consumer to choose the lower carbon goods. Its can make to strengthen of agriculture and food industry's reduction effort of $CO_2$. Nowadays consumer requests food's safety and environment friendly process. Carbon footprint also needs consumer's relief and incentives.

The Effect of Storage Method and Duration on the Physicochemical Characteristics and Consumer Acceptance of Kimchi (저장 방법 및 기간을 달리한 김장 김치의 이화학적 특성 및 소비자 기호도)

  • Kim, Hee-Sup
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.638-645
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study is to evaluate the quality characteristics and consumer acceptance of the Kimchi affected by the storage method and the duration. The characteristics of Kimchi fermented and stored in the traditional method, such as cave facility or pit storage on the shore were compared to the Kimchi which was stored in the Kimchi refrigerator using the physicochemical and sensory evaluation. The quality of Kimchi stored by the Kimchi refrigerator was most acceptable with 3 month storage, while that of Kimchi stored by the storage facility under the ground on the shore was 1 month storage. Shelf life of Kimchi was extended up to 5 month stored by Kimchi refrigerator, and 3 month for the Kimchi stored under the ground on the shore.

The Effects of Pickled Garlic's Attributes on Consumer Satisfaction and Intention of Repurchase - Focused on the Housewives in Pusan - (마늘장아찌의 상품 속성이 고객 만족 및 재 구매 의도에 미치는 영향 - 부산지역 가정주부를 대상으로 -)

  • Kim, Gyeong-Hwan;Kim, Young-Hoon;Cho, Yong-Bum
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.58-68
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    • 2008
  • The objectives of this study were to identify the pickled garlic's attributes and verify the structural relationships among the attributes, customer satisfaction, and intention of repurchase. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, literature review and empirical study were used. As the results of this research are as follows. A majority of respondents answered that they preferred pickled garlic with soy sauce. And they were down on the lack of variety in pickled garlic products and garlic recipes. The nutrition facts and the value of producer of pickled garlic were verified to examine the effects on consumer satisfaction and intention of repurchase.

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Appraisement and Purchase Consciousness of Consumer on Organically Grown Products (유기농산물에 대한 소비자의 평가와 구매의식)

  • 김연화;손상목
    • Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.49-67
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    • 1999
  • This paper focussed to find out the consumer appraisement and purchase consciousness on organically grown products since public pay more and more attention on organic food and market for organic products has been grown very rapidly. It is intended to deliver the necessary information at first time in Korea to the policy maker for environmentally sound agriculture, establishment for marketing strategy and consumer movement related with it. 66.2% of investigated consumer ever purchased the organic products, and they are inhabitant in apartment complex, belongs to high income group and eldly people, and used to buy frequently at 45.8%. For the reason why they choose the organic products ; 84.7% for health and safe, 48.6% for taste. But the reason why they not choose the organic products ; 56.7% for unconvenient to shop an organic food, 51.4% for expensiveness. On the purchasing the consumer mainly rely upon the certification label(67%), the marketing place(29.6%) and information and recommendation of shopkeeper(23.6%). Korean consumers intend to buy an organic products if variable products and crops are offered in the market and offered at reduced price. The group purchased intensively the organic goods appraise for an organic products positively, and group who do not express any careless intend never to purchase an organically grown products because of its high price. Consumer indicated the support policy and action program by government(69.2%), research & development on organic agriculture and its extension activity(48.8%) are necessary to stimulate an organic agriculture in Korea.

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A Study on Consumer Characteristics in Foodservice according to University Students' Lifestyles - A Focus on . Gyeongbuk Province (대학생의 라이프스타일에 따른 외식소비자행동 특성 연구 - 대구.경북지역을 중심으로 -)

  • You, Doo-Ryon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.172-180
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the consumer characteristics in foodservice according to university students' lifestyles. The data were collected by the questionnaire survey of 520 university students from Daegu Gyeongbuk Province. The SPSS/Win 12.0 program was used to analyse the samples. The results are as follows: 1) Lifestyle was divided into 10 factors and 3 clusters, namely "Convenience Intention" (cluster I), "Health Information Intention" (cluster II), and "Gender Equality Intention" (cluster III). 2) The differences in general characteristics between the three clusters were founded on gender, frequency of visits, companion, information type, and the type of restaurant. 3) The characteristics of cluster I (Convenience Intention) are explained by it consisting of the group with low averages in consumer dissatisfaction, complaints, compensation, and repurchase intention, where as cluster II was the high average group and cluster III the middle average group. Based on these results, consumer characteristics in foodservice are discussed.

Developing an Attitude Scale for Korean Style Flavors (한국적인 맛 관련 소비자 식태도 성향 분류 척도 개발)

  • Kim, Jin-Young;Cha, Sung-Mi;Chung, La-Na;Kim, Kwang-Ok;Chung, Seo-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.805-812
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    • 2009
  • The consumer acceptance of food is not only affected by the sensory characteristics of food but also by the non-food factors, including food experience, consumption frequency, and food attitudes. Therefore, food attitude scales such as the food neophobic scale, VARSEEK scale, Dutch restrained eating scale, health taste attitude scale, etc. have been developed and effectively used to predict consumer liking and behaviors. Since the globalization of Korean food is currently one of the hottest topics in the Korean food industry, the aim of this study was to identify the tastes and flavors that may represent Korean cuisine. Additionally, an attitudinal scale for Korean taste and flavors was developed, which can then be utilized to predict a consumer's liking of Korean food. In the first stage of the experiment, the representative taste and flavors of Korean cuisine was surveyed by a Korean culinary expert group (n=23) and general consumers (n=62). As a result of these surveys, 4 types of flavors, hot pepper flavor, 'goso' flavor, garlic flavor, and fermented flavor were shown to be the most representative flavors of Korean cuisine. Based on these results, the second stage of the experiment was carried out to develop an attitudinal scale for Korean style flavors. Eleven to 17 questionnaires were developed for each of the 4 types of flavors. The survey consisted of a total of 53 questionnaires and 154 female consumers and 158 male consumers participated in the survey. The data was analyzed by factor analysis. For each type of flavor, the final attitudinal questionnaires were selected based on the following criteria: 1. high absolute factor loading value, 2. carrying clear meaning of the corresponding flavor attitude, and 3. delivering the meaning sufficiently when translated into other language. The final Korean style flavor attitude scale consisted of 7 hot pepper flavor, 6 'goso' flavor, 6 garlic flavor, and 7 fermented flavor questionnaires. In the next step of this study, experiments will be carried out to validate the Korean style flavor attitude scale.

Sensory properties of oriental melon (Cucumis melo var. makuwa) byquantitative descriptive analysis and consumer test (묘사분석 및 소비자 조사에 의한 참외의 관능특성)

  • Kim, Sang Seop;Choi, Eun Jeong;Choi, Jeong Hee;Ku, Kyung Hyung
    • Food Science and Preservation
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.727-737
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    • 2016
  • This study was carried out to determine the descriptive sensory profile of oriental melon. The sensory profile of oriental melons (cultivated in Seonju, Kyungsangbuk-do) were used quantitative descriptive analyses and twelve trained panel developed the total forty sensory attributes related appearance, aroma, texture etc. Six appearances attributes and two aromas attributes were derived from whole oriental melon with skin. Five aromas, six tastes and six textures were derived from the mesocarp of oriental melon. And also, oriental melons were analyzed for pH, titratable acidity, solid soluble contents and weight. The weight, titratable acidity and soluble solid content of oriental melons showed significant differences according to samples. And also, in the sensory attributes of these samples by trained panel and consumer test, there were significant differences between organic cultivated samples and conventional cultivated samples. Based on principal component analysis of sensory attributes data by trained panel and consumer, oriental melons were primary separated along the first principal component, which accounted for 27.73% (trained panel test) and 19.82% (consumer test) of total variance (trained panel test; 58.36%, consumer test; 46.18%) between the samples farm, cultivation method, total acidity, sweet aroma, bitterness, etc. Generally, whole oriental melon with skin showed significant differences in the sensory attributes according to cultivation method and farms. But, the mesocarp and endocarp part showed not certainly differences in the sensory attributes between organic cultivated samples except conventional cultivated samples.