Abstract
The increasing awareness of the benefits of more nutritious, healthier and safer food products by consumers plays a vital role in the recent changes experienced in the food production chain, and meat products are no exception to this. The study investigated consumption pattern of meat in Ogbomoso North Local Government Area, Oyo State, Nigeria. Primary data for the study were obtained from 120 respondents with the use of structured questionnaire analysed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. According to the study, chicken, turkey and beef with percentage frequencies 96.7%, 81.7% and 76.8% respectively were the most consumed meat types, while quail, rabbit and guinea fowl with percentage frequencies 6.7%, 7.5% and 12.5% respectively were the least consumed meat types. Also, income of the respondent with t-value 41.08 and a positively signed coefficient at 1% level of significance was found to have a direct effect on the monthly expenditure on preferred meat type. The study recommend there should be awareness on the nutritional benefits of consuming meats of low saturated fats and calorie contents such as rabbit, quail and guinea fowl and also to teach them how to raise these animals domestically.
Highlights
The increasing awareness of the benefits of more nutritious, healthier and safer food products by consumers plays a vital role in the recent changes experienced in the food production chain, and meat products are no exception to this
Consumers in any production system play a vital role around which the whole system revolves and meat products are no exception to this
Preferential consumption exists in spite of the importance of meat as a source of protein with high biological value, household demand for meat products such as beef, mutton, pork, chevon, chicken, quail meat, rabbit meat and guinea fowl meat are faced with problems, earlier reports classified factors that affect the consumption of meat as economic, social and cultural
Summary
The increasing awareness of the benefits of more nutritious, healthier and safer food products by consumers plays a vital role in the recent changes experienced in the food production chain, and meat products are no exception to this. Preferential consumption exists in spite of the importance of meat as a source of protein with high biological value, household demand for meat products such as beef, mutton, pork, chevon, chicken, quail meat, rabbit meat and guinea fowl meat are faced with problems, earlier reports classified factors that affect the consumption of meat as economic, social and cultural. This study seeks to investigate consumption pattern of meat and to determine the factors influencing respondents’ monthly expenditure on meat in the study area with a view to creating more awareness on domestication and consumption of meats types that are low in saturated fats and calorie contents but high in fatty acids and other essential nutrients
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