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Browsing Consumer Science by Type "Dissertation"
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The acceptability and use of convenience foods by black women employed by government in Mpumalanga (University of Pretoria, 2008)The recent increase in the number of black working women has meant that time has become an even more precious commodity in the majority of households with working women than before. Growth in women’s participation in the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2009-04-16)This study is aimed at investigating specific preferences for various types of maize meal in two rural communities of Mthatha. Consumption data shows that in very poor households, maize was the only and most consumed ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-07-03)The purpose of this study was to determine, understand and describe the acceptability, choice and preference of dairy fruit beverages by a group of black South-African female consumers. Food choice, acceptability and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The access dimensions to the local, urban food environment of adults in the eastern suburbs of the Tshwane metropolitan are explored and described. The study further determined how the food access dimensions contribute to ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Concern regarding the decline in the knowledge and use of indigenous green vegetables exists in many southern African regions including Swaziland. Reasons for this are, amongst others, attributed to a lack of inter-generational ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)Means-end Chain theory posits that consumers choose certain products or services based on their attributes in an attempt to produce certain outcomes (Gutman, 1997). This results in consumers thinking about products and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-10-04)Clothes are not only for body protection and covering, but they also have social and emotional aspects attached to them. For them to be appealing, they need to have a proper fit while remaining fashionable and aesthetically ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-05-18)Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document
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(University of Pretoria, 2011-11-24)From the clothing theory, it is evident that the mass media as generalised “other”, dictates the opinion of what is acceptable and not acceptable regarding fashion. The role that the mass media play in the clothing consumer’s ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Young Black professionals (Buppies) have taken the South African market by storm. These individuals and their parents come from suppressed and poverty-stricken pasts. Since the abolishment of the Apartheid regime, they ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The environmental crisis is a certainty (Dunlap & Catton, 1994; IPCC, 2007; South Africa Property Review, 2009:15) and requires change within the objective reality of everyday social life (Spaargaren, 1998). In this regard ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2024-01-01)The overall objective of this study was to explore and describe young females’ clothing shopping behaviour before, during and after the COVID-19 restrictions in South Africa. The research focused more specifically on ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)In order to achieve good apparel fit, it is necessary to identify, define and classify the size and shape of a population based on a combination of key body measurements (Petrova & Ashdown, 2008). Unrepresentative sizing ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1989-01)The purpose of this study was to ascertain how the quality characteristics of Angora and Boer goat meat compare with those of sheep meat. The quality characteristics of the Mm. longissimus thoracis et lumborum of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-08-15)This study was concerned with the level of acceptability and perceptions of three types of commercially produced roller-milled white maize meal namely: sifted unfortified, sifted fortified and super fortified versus ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)Globally, it is estimated that one-third of the food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted, which amounts to a concerning 1.3 billion tons per year (FAO, 2011). More concerning is the fact that much of the wastage ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2021-12)“Food fraud” is a globally accepted concept used to refer to the purposeful consumer deception in the sale, advertising or labelling of food or food ingredients to achieve an economic benefit (Curll, 2015). Within the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)In a South African context, a range of consumer studies have been conducted over the past few years to understand the influence of food labels on South African consumers' purchasing behaviour, the specific factors influencing ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This study aims to provide empirical evidence that may be used by entrepreneurs who wish to introduce artisan bottled preserved food products in a competitive market place in an effort to create a more sustainable business ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The fast-food franchise industry has become one of the fastest growing and most successful segments of its retail sector. This study defines fast food as food that is prepared and served to the consumer in some form of a ...
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