Food consumption tendencies of Turkish consumers within COVID-19 process

Abstract

Some occasions and situations lead significant variation and evolutions in continuity of livelihoods. The impact of COVID-19 pandemic has been visible in many aspects since its first announcement in 2020. Even if the people seemed to turn back to their old routines, the routines had already changed within the process. This paper aimed to look at the changing nutrition preferences and demand for specific products. An online consumer survey was applied in 2020 in Turkey with 499 randomly selected individuals to understand their changing demand for fresh fruits and vegetables and animal products. The rising purchases were estimated against socio-demographic factors with multinominal logistic regression. The outputs indicated the importance of education, level of income and amount of prospective spending on nutrition for maintenance of demand and supplies under pandemic conditions.

Keywords

• COVID-19
• consumption
• food
• logit
• income

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