title: Survey into the seafood consumption preferences and patterns in the portuguese population. Gender and regional variability.
abstract: With the purpose of achieving a deeper knowledge of one of the most important seafood markets in Europe, a survey into the seafood consumption preferences and patterns in the Portuguese population was carried out. A thorough, comprehensive, and simple questionnaire was developed. Consumers were asked to state their preferences towards fish products, their consumption frequencies, the average meal portion, and the usual culinary treatments. Respondents provided personal data: gender, age, geographical location, education level, weight, height, and health condition. This paper presents the first part of the study's results, focusing mainly on the gender and regional variables. Portuguese consumers prefer wild to cultured fish as well as fat to lean fish. Chilled fish is preferred over frozen, salted/dried, canned, and smoked fish, being the latter the least preferred. Soaked cod, hake, and canned tuna are the most eaten seafood products. Men prefer to a greater extent wild and smoked fish. Men consume more cephalopods and sardine and women eat more frequently hake, pink cusk-eel, and redfish. Coastal populations prefer wild fish. Algarve (southern Portugal) consumers exhibit a stronger tendency to wild and whole fish and consume more sardine and sole. Madeira archipelago consumers are particularly fond of black scabbard fish.
authors: Unit of Upgrading of Fishery and Aquaculture Products (U-VPPA), Portuguese Institute for the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA), Avenida de Brasília, 1449-006 Lisbon, Portugal. ccardoso@ipma.pt
authors: Carlos
authors: C
authors: Cardoso
authors: Helena
authors: H
authors: Lourenço
authors: Sara
authors: S
authors: Costa
authors: Susana
authors: S
authors: Gonçalves
authors: Maria Leonor
authors: ML
authors: Nunes
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D017756:Aquaculture; D049830:Cephalopoda; D004034:Diet Surveys; D004041:Dietary Fats; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D005399:Fishes; D005511:Food Handling; D005518:Food Preferences; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D062407:Meals; D008875:Middle Aged; D011174:Portugal; D017747:Seafood; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D004041:Dietary Fats