Table A2.

Statements from the Food Neophobia Scale and Domain-Specific Innovativeness used for research.

To What Extent Do You Agree with the Following Statements (Please Mark X in the Appropriate Box)?		Strongly Disagree	Disagree	More or Less Disagree	Undecided	More or Less Agree	Agree	Strongly Agree
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1	I am constantly sampling new and different cuisines. (R)
2	I do not trust new foods.
3	If I do not know what is in a food, I will not try it.
4	I like foods from different countries. (R)
5	Modernist foods look too weird to eat.
6	At dinner parties I will try a new food. (R)
7	I am afraid to eat things I have never had before.
8	I am very particular about the foods I will eat.
9	I will eat almost anything. (R)
10	I like to try restaurants with new cuisines. (R)
11	I buy new foods before other people do
12	In general, I am among the first in my circle of friends to buy new foods
13	Compared to my friends I buy more new foods
14	Even though new foods are available in the store, I do not buy them (R)
15	In general, I am the last in my circle of friends to know the trademarks of new foods (R)
16	I will not buy new foods, if I have not tasted them yet (R)

R—reversed; Questions 1–10. Adapted Food Neophobia Scale by Pilner and Hobden (1992); Questions 11–16. Domain-Specific Innovativeness Scale by Goldsmith and Hofacker (1991) with modifications of Huotilainen et al. (2006).