Simple and smart-promoting consumers' willingness to consume and offer expired but still edible food through an informational intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In order to curb household food waste in industrialized countries such as Germany, appropriate interventions are needed to encourage consumers to adopt various food-waste-prevention practices, for example, with respect to expired food. The main objective of the present study was to evaluate the effects of an informational intervention. This intervention provided problem and action knowledge about the environmental problem of household food waste and consumers' engagement in food-waste-prevention consumption practices referring to expired food. The study focused on consumers' willingness to consume and to offer expired but still edible food. Additionally, it examined the psychological mechanisms underlying these effects.

Methods

We conducted an online survey in a

SUBMITTER: Schmidt K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12463826 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature