Table 3.
Knowledge and acceptance of functional foods—frequency distributions of Likert-scaled variables (%, n = 101).
| Item Pool | Strongly Disagree | Disagree | Neutral | Agree | Strongly Agree |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Food plays an important role for my personal health | - | - | - | 14.9 | 85.1 |
| 2. I know enriched and functional foods | 6.9 | 9.9 | 40.6 | 23.8 | 19.8 |
| 3. Functional foods are likely to have a beneficial impact on my personal health | 3 | 4 | 46.5 | 26.7 | 19.8 |
| 4. Functional foods are a convenient way of meeting recommended daily intakes which I would never meet with my conventional diet | 22.8 | 15.8 | 39.6 | 15.9 | 5.9 |
| 5. According to my personal opinion, functional foods are too expensive given their claimed health benefit | 8.9 | 21.8 | 57.4 | 11.9 | - |
| 6. Functional foods are acceptable for me, even if they taste worse than their conventional alternative foods | 39.6 | 22.8 | 29.7 | 8 | - |
| 7. I do not believe that fortified and or enriched foods are considered healthier than traditional ones | 25.7 | 22.8 | 34.7 | 16.8 | - |