caa a22 4500 388096462 CHVBK 20180307125305.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199908 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0029665199000683 doi S0029665199000683 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0029665199000683 Mela David J. Consumer Science Unit, Unilever Research, 3130 AC Vlaardingen, The Netherlands Food choice and intake: the human factor [Elektronische Daten] [David J. Mela] Human perceptions and selection of food are derived from the prevailing and momentary food, agro-economic and cultural environment, cognitive and biological characteristics of individuals, and the real and perceived intrinsic and extrinsic attributes of foods themselves. The range of items typically chosen and consumed within a given population is largely determined by interaction of the external environmental context with guiding sets of implicit and explicit social and psychobiological ‘rules'. Within the rather broad limits of biology, individual food choices and intake behaviours relate to and reflect aspects of food availability, existing habitual behaviours, learning mechanisms, and individual beliefs and expectations. Many of the relevant features of these variables are uniquely human, together determining what is ‘food', when, how, by and with whom it is chosen and eaten, and in what quantities. They also provide the opportunities for individuals to establish and maintain a relatively stable set of culturally and biologically determined affective responses (‘likes') and intake behaviours. Understanding of the potential contribution of these influences under different conditions can serve to explain many of the observed characteristics of human eating, and highlight potential avenues for intervention. Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1999 Food choice nationallicence Eating behaviour nationallicence Food preferences nationallicence Proceedings of the Nutrition Society Cambridge University Press 58/3(1999-08), 513-521 0029-6651 58:3<513 1999 58 PNS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0029665199000683 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 conference jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0029665199000683 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Mela David J. Consumer Science Unit, Unilever Research, 3130 AC Vlaardingen, The Netherlands NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Proceedings of the Nutrition Society Cambridge University Press 58/3(1999-08), 513-521 0029-6651 58:3<513 1999 58 PNS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge