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Dr Marcin Adam Antoniak
ORCID: 0000-0003-0920-9540

Professional marketing manager with 15 years of working experience: six years in FMCG and nine years in technical industry, both in B2C and B2B Marketing. Previously worked at various companies, including international corporations. Responsible for the markets of Poland, other European and non-European countries (including Africa & the Middle East).

 
DOI: 10.33226/1231-7853.2023.10.4
JEL: D10, D91, I12, M31, M38

Food labels are an important factor in determining purchases. The aim of the study was to discover consumer expectations regarding the labelling of products containing cultured meat. A comparative analysis was conducted on 1,286 consumers, taking food technology neophobia, customer innovativeness and health consciousness into account. The analysis is based on a series of Repeated Measures ANOVAs, which has made it possible to identify individual differences among consumers. We found a significant variation in terms of a level with which consumers formulate their judgment concerning the information that should appear on the packaging. We identified three groups of variables with different levels of expectation, where in-vitro is not the leading one. The results indicate that the placement of information about cultured meat on food labels may have a negative stigmatizing effect.

Keywords: cell-based meat; labelling; consumer expectancy; food technology neophobia; health consciousness