Table 5.
Associations between food neophobia and food choice in the total sample (N = 1017).
| Variables | Total Sample |
Choice between Two Products: | p-Value | Choice between Two Products: | p-Value | Choice between Two Products: | p-Value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Healthy and Tasteless Product |
Unhealthy and Tasty Product |
Healthy and Expensive Product |
Unhealthy and Cheap Product |
Tasty and Expensive Product |
Tasteless and Cheap Product |
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| N = 1017 | N = 538 | N = 479 | N = 814 | N = 203 | N = 866 | N = 151 | ||||
| Food Neophobia N (%) | ||||||||||
| Neophilic | 124 (12.2) | 49 (39.5) | 75 (60.5) | 0.004 | 101 (81.5) | 23 (18.4) | 0.222 | 116 (93.5) | 8 (6.5) | <0.001 |
| Neutral | 747 (73.4) | 404 (54.1) | 343 (45.9) | 589 (78.8) | 158 (21.2) | 616 (82.5) | 131 (17.5) | |||
| Neophobic | 146 (14.4) | 85 (58.2) | 61 (41.8) | 124 (84.9) | 22 (15.1) | 134 (91.8) | 12 (8.2) | |||
N—number of participants; %—sample percentage.