Breaking habits for the better

Food choice is largely driven by habits, and habits are difficult to break. This fact hampers the transition of current food choices into a new and preferably more sustainable and healthy direction. Knowledge about how food habits are formed, and under which circumstances they can be changed is needed in order to help consumers change their diet towards more sustainable foods.

Therefore, the aim of this project is to develop a validated research method that facilitates the development of new and reformulated (sustainably sourced and produced) food products that can help to radically change existing food habits (e.g. from a meat to a plant-based diet) or generate new food habits (e.g. by replacing regular-salt products with reduced-salt products).

The role of Noldus

Noldus provides expertise, consultancy and equipment to assist in the development and validation of new methods for measuring consumers' choice behavior.

More information

To find out more, or if you think Noldus might be a good partner for your consortium, you can contact us directly. You can also read this article (in Dutch) about the project.