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- Title
İsparta İli Kentsel Alanda Ailelerin Ekmek Tüketimi ve İsrafı.
- Authors
Ertürk, Aybike; Arslantaş, Nilay; Sarıca, Deniz; Demircan, Vecdi
- Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine the attitudes and behaviors of families towards bread consumption and waste m urban areas of İsparta city in Turkey. The main material of the study consisted of the data obtained from surveys which were conducted by face toface interviews with 384 families in İsparta city center. As a result of the research it ZaSt determined that the average piece of bread per capita purchased was 0.43 (1 piece of bread: 429 g). It was found that 13.61% of the breads bought daily were leftover due to not consuming on the day, 4.73% of them became stale and 1.18% of them became moldy. According to the data obtained, the most consumed bread was İsparta homemade bread (46.2%) and white bread (31.3%) in İsparta city. Families preferred bakeries the most and supermarkets the least as a place Purchase bread. It was identified that 60.7% of the families bought bread as their daily necessities and 37.5% of them bought slightly more than their daily requirements. The features of bread cared the most about by the interviewees were whether the bread was sold under hygienic conditions (83.3%), whether it was produced in hygienic conditions (81.5%), to be well cooked (79.7%), to be hot and fresh (75.8%) and its appearance (71.9%) It was found that most of the Emilies preserved the bread in plastic bags (55.2%). The 87.8% of interviewed families indicated that they reused stale bread as human food. Giving stale bread to animals is still a quite common practice The 8.9% of the families stated that they throw the stale bread away.
- Publication
Academic Food Journal / Akademik GIDA, 2015, Vol 13, Issue 4, p291
- ISSN
1304-7582
- Publication type
Article