Influence Fruit Consumption Research Articles

Fruit consumption improvement as an effort to sustainable lifestyle

The integration of healthy diets into sustainable lifestyles faces challenges as modern living often sidelines nutritional choices. While the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends 150 grams of fruit daily per capita, Statistics Indonesia (2021) reports an average consumption of only 81.14 grams, meeting just 54.09% of the WHO's minimum nutritional adequacy. This qualitative descriptive study aims to analyze the knowledge, attitude, and actions influencing fruit consumption in Indonesia. Primary data, collected through questionnaires, reveal that respondents generally possess good knowledge and attitude towards fruit benefits. However, discrepancies arise in the action aspect, with consumption frequency falling below recommended standards. Utilizing the Scopus publication database and Vosviewer software, bibliometric analysis identifies key keywords like female, male, adult, fruit, diet, and food intake in Indonesian fruit consumption research. Despite positive attitudes and awareness, actual fruit consumption remains suboptimal, emphasizing the need for targeted interventions to bridge the gap between knowledge and practice.

A Macroeconomic Review of the Factors Influencing Fruit Consumption in Romania—The Road towards Sustainability

Sustainable development, including the consumption of sustainable food, is an issue that is receiving increasing attention in research and policy construction. Thus, complex policies are being created to address these issues, targeting economic, social, and environmental factors. This study aims to provide a macroeconomic overview of the factors that have the potential to influence fruit consumption at a national level, so that proposals can be offered in order to pursue a more sustainable fruit consumption in Romania. In order to carry out the research, two approaches were used: a bibliometric technique, through which the Scopus and Web of Science publications on the supply and consumption of fruits were analyzed, and an econometric approach, through which some of the macroeconomic factors influencing fruit consumption in Romania were identified and assessed. The study highlights the high interest of worldwide researchers in the field and an upward trend in Romanian fruit consumption.

PREFERENSI KONSUMEN TERHADAP BUAH-BUAHAN DI KOTA BANDAR LAMPUNG

Fruit consumption in Indonesia, especially in Lampung Province, has not reached the Nutrient Adequacy Ratio (NAR) yet, and this threatens the health of young people in the future. Efforts to improve the consumption begin by analyzing the influence of social and personal factors then evaluate consumer preferences for fruits in Bandar Lampung. The consumer preferences explained by different attributes combination for several fruits, such as mangoes, oranges, and bananas. Data were collected with the survey method to 100 respondents. Social factors significantly influence fruit consumption. The social factors relate to the influence of other peoples that affects fruits consumptions. Price is an essential attribute considered by consumers when choosing fruits. Consumers prefer cheap fruits, sweet tasted, small, and clean skinned. Key words: conjoint analysis, consumption, fruit, preferences

Fresh fruit purchase analysis in the town’s circle in the Nothern Great Plain Region

In my research I aimed to examine the previous theories about consumer habits and behaviors as well as the preference of different fruit species in the Northern Great Plain Region. Furthermore, I also wanted to know if there are any correlations between the product atributes that influence fruit consumption and different ages, genders and income categories.
 The importance of my research field is reflected in the fact that issues in connection with foodstuffs, healty diet and food safety have been highly emphasized recently.
 I belive in order to live longer we need to pursue healthy diet that is rich in fruits and vegetables. It seems, however, not every can follow this lifestyle in their every day diet since most people prefer junk food that contains harmful ingridients.

Crop size is more important than neighborhood fruit availability for fruit removal of Eugenia uniflora (Myrtaceae) by bird seed dispersers

For a plant with bird-dispersed seeds, the effectiveness of seed dispersal can change with fruit availability at scales ranging from individual plants to neighborhoods, and the scale at which frugivory patterns emerge may be specific for frugivorous species differing in their life-history and behavior. The authors explore the influence of multispecies fruit availability at two local spatial scales on fruit consumption of Eugenia uniflora trees for two functional groups of birds. The authors related visitation and fruit removal by fruit gulpers and pulp mashers to crop size and conspecific and heterospecific fruit abundance to assess the potential roles that facilitative or competitive interactions play on seed dispersal. The same fruiting scenario influenced fruit gulpers (legitimate seed dispersers) and pulp mashers (inefficient dispersers) in different ways. Visits and fruit removal by legitimate seed dispersers were positively related to crop size and slightly related to conspecific, but not to heterospecific fruit neighborhoods. Visits and fruit consumption by pulp mashers was not related to crop size and decreased with heterospecific fruit availability in neighborhoods; however, this might not result in competition for dispersers. The weak evidence for facilitative or competitive processes suggest that interaction of E. uniflora with seed dispersers may depend primarily on crop size or other plant’s attributes susceptible to selection. The results give limited support to the hypothesis that spatial patterns of fruit availability influence fruit consumption by birds, and highlight the importance of considering separately legitimate and inefficient dispersers to explain the mechanisms that lie behind spatial patterns of seed dispersal.

BREEDING SYSTEMS AND DISPERSAL-RELATED MATERNAL REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT OF SOUTHERN SPANISH BIRD-DISPERSED PLANTS.

Dioecious plants, characterized by the occurrence of separate male and female individuals, represent a relatively unimportant fraction of the total world's flora (Bawa, 1980). Nevertheless, owing to the nonrandom distribution of the dioecious habit among life forms, successional stages and habitat types, dioecy may become a prominent feature of some regional or taxonomic plant assemblages (Ashton, 1969; Bawa, 1974; Bawa and Opler, 1975; Bawa, 1980; Conn et al., 1980; Freeman et al., 1980; Givnish, 1980). The dioecious condition has been found to be relatively overrepresented in later successional stages of tropical vegetation (Opler et al., 1980) and among trees and shrubs (Bawa, 1980; Conn et al., 1980; Freeman et al., 1980), vertebrate-dispersed plants (Bawa, 1980; Givnish, 1980), small-flowered tropical species (Bawa and Opler, 1975; Opler et al., 1975), wind-pollinated temperate plants (Freeman et al., 1980), and tropical species pollinated by small opportunistic insects (Opler et al., 1975; Bawa, 1980). Although promoting outcrossing has been traditionally suggested as the principal selective pressure underlying the evolution of dioecy (see recent reviews by Willson, 1979; Bawa, 1980; Givnish, 1980), some of the ecological correlates of the dioecious habit have recently served to suggest alternative and/or complementary explanations to its evolution (Freeman et al., 1976; Willson, 1979; Bawa, 1980; Freeman et al., 1980; Givnish, 1980; Cox, 1981). In particular, the strong association found between dioecy and seed dispersal by vertebrates has lent support to the notion of this breeding system having evolved among these plants in response to disperser-mediated, intrasexual competition pressures favoring a disequilibrium in the allocation of resources to male and female functions (Bawa, 1980; Givnish, 1980; but see Thomson and Barrett, 1981). It was assumed by the lastmentioned authors that vertebrate dispersers will select for higher dispersal-related maternal expenditure, thus ultimately favoring the spread of dioecy. In this context, it is of interest to compare female investment in disperser-attracting structures shown by dioecious and nondioecious vertebrate-dispersed plants. Increased returns in fitness with increasing maternal absolute reproductive effort were considered by Bawa (1980) and Givnish (1980) in relation to the size of fruit crops only, assuming that plants with larger fruit crops have greater attractiveness to dispersers (Howe and Estabrook, 1977; Howe and Vande Kerckhove, 1979; Howe, 1980). Nevertheless, crop size is just a single component of the total female reproductive investment associated with vertebrate-dispersal. The amount of flesh (the food reward which attracts dispersers to fruits; Snow, 1971; McKey, 1975) per fruit, and the energy and nutrients per weight unit of flesh, are two further important aspects of a plant's fruiting pattern which influence fruit consumption by frugivores and hence, presumably, the fitness of the plant. At an intraspecific level, frugivores have been shown to favor plant phenotypes with a higher flesh content per fruit (Howe and Vande Kerckhove, 1980) and, among species, dispersers seem to prefer those with the most nutritious fruits and/or those with higher flesh/seed ratios (Herrera, 1981a, 1981b; Jordano and Her-