The increasingly fierce competition in food trends requires producers to innovate and
develop new foods to be accepted and to avoid neophobia by consumers at the same time …

The consumption of edible insects (EI) is traditional in many parts of the world, but not in
others. In fact, despite globalization and the multiple advantages pointed out about the …

This book assesses the potential of insects as food and feed, and summarizes existing
information and research on edible insects. The assessment is based on the most recent …

Why does performing certain tasks cause the aversive experience of mental effort and
concomitant deterioration in task performance? One explanation posits a physical resource …

Edible insects have attracted much Western interest in recent years due to their nutritional
and environmental advantages. Consumers, however, remain aversive towards a class of …

This study attempts to identify the salient factors affecting tourist food consumption. By
reviewing available studies in the hospitality and tourism literature and synthesising insights …

In this article, we review findings from basic, experimental research on children that suggest
that the liking of sweet and the dislike of bitter tastes reflect children's basic biology. Children …

This article proposes a contextual-evolutionary theory of human mating strategies. Both men
and women are hypothesized to have evolved distinct psychological mechanisms that …

Given the scarcity of research on tourist food preference, this study is a first attempt to
generate in-depth understanding of Chinese tourists' food preferences in a culturally …

M/[ARKETS AND OTHER economic institutions do more than allocate goods and services:
they also influence the evolution of values, tastes, and personalities. Economists have long …