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cultural acceptability
Also known as: socio-cultural acceptability
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A Scoping Review of Indicators for Sustainable Healthy Diets frontiersin.org Jan 12, 2022 6 facts
claimSeven studies (Masset et al., 2014b; Kramer et al., 2017; Gazan et al., 2018; Rao et al., 2018; Benvenuti et al., 2019; Perignon et al., 2019; Reynolds et al., 2019) assumed cultural acceptability of diets existed because their study designs attempted to maintain close adherence to current consumption patterns and food choices.
claimCultural acceptability in the context of sustainable healthy diets is most frequently measured as a minimal departure from the current diet.
claimPerignon et al. (2019) identified that assuming cultural acceptability based on current consumption patterns does not guarantee that dietary shifts within those patterns would be acceptable to consumers.
measurementThe primary sociocultural concepts measured in the reviewed articles were the cost of diets (41% of sociocultural indicators), cultural acceptability (17%), and environmental costs (12%).
claimDonati et al. (2016) noted that assuming cultural acceptability based on current consumption patterns fails to account for other cultural and traditional factors that strongly influence food choice.
measurementThe scoping review identified 59 sociocultural indicators for assessing the sustainability of diets, categorized into concepts including cultural acceptability (10), animal welfare (3), satisfaction (3), attitudes (1), food security (1), cost of diets (24), environmental costs (7), health costs (4), productivity costs (1), and other (5).
Measurement of diets that are healthy, environmentally sustainable ... frontiersin.org 4 facts
claimAcceptability measures in dietary studies included a measure of deviations from current diets and a measure of cultural acceptability, the latter of which was operationalized as a set of variables used to constrain deviations from current diets, such as restricting beef/pork consumption in India due to religious and cultural norms.
claimCultural acceptability in diet studies is often defined as how food consumption in a proposed diet deviates from observed consumption in a region, an operationalization that is considered insufficient because it lacks consideration for the nuances of cultural and traditional consumption native to a region or country.
perspectiveMetrics to measure cultural acceptability in diets need to be developed further to account for traditional foods and foods important to specific regions.
claimWhile terms like social justice, just transitions, diet disparities, and socio-cultural acceptability are increasingly used in publications, their incorporation into food-climate-health simulations and modeling remains nascent.
Cross-cultural similarities and variations in parent-child value ... nature.com Nov 26, 2025 1 fact
claimCo-designing early childhood development interventions enhances their cultural acceptability and responsiveness by engaging stakeholders as design participants and experts in their own needs.