Percepção da população em relação ao consumo de alimentos orgânicos

Abstract

The present study sought to know the perception of consumers of a small place municipality in the southwestern region of Paraná in relation to the consumption of organic foods, trying to identify the factors that may interfere the acquisition and consumption of these. Was used as instrument for data collection a questionnaire prepared for this purpose and the socioeconomic questionnaire proposed by the Brazilian Economic Classification Criteria, outlined by Brazilian Association of Research Companies (ABEP), of 2016. It was observed that the majority of the participants of the research were adults 86%; n=327), female gender (77%, n=294) and resided in the urban area (80%; n=308). The level of schooling was concentrated in Higher Education (42%; n=159). As for knowledge about organic foods, almost totality of researched (96%; n=368) reported that they know what these foods are and the most important criterion to buy these products is good to health (55%; n=211). On the other hand, there are few places to acquire them (64%; n=245), thus prevailing the low consumption of these foods by the group (53%; n=205), although they have an interest in increasing it (52%; n=201, 98% n= 197). The majority answered that they have great confidence in universities (76%; n = 291) and professional nutritionists (77%; n= 294) as a reference on the subject and more than a third per cen tdo not trust the media as opinion-makers (39%; n= 149). The main factor that interferes with the acquisition and consumption of these foods is the lack of places to sell them, which restricts access to the population.