What is it about?
Watching TV cooking shows can lead to more food waste at home. I explain how and why 1) spending more time watching TV cooking shows and 2) watching more than one cooking show can increase your food waste.
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Why is it important?
Food waste reduction is a global sustainable development target. The rise of TV cooking shows across countries presents a powerful media for educating millions of consumers about food. Yet, whether exposure to TV cooking shows increases or decreases consumer food waste is not clear.
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Exposure to TV cooking shows can still cultivate food waste reduction if suitable content is displayed.
Dr Sayed Elhoushy
Queen Mary University of London
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This page is a summary of: To taste not to waste: Can exposure to
TV
cooking shows cultivate food waste reduction?, Journal of Consumer Behaviour, January 2022, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/cb.2026.
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