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Psychological Factors Affecting Food Selection

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Food selection, a multidimensional behavior leading to food intake, the ingestive process, is dependent on access to edible substances and the availability of options. It incorporates the concept of food acceptance and rejection and ultimately results in personal eating patterns. Although food selection overlaps with food preference, the terms are not synonymous; food preference presupposes ranking of foods according to degree of liking or disliking, whereas food selection involves actual choices based on the influence of various exogenous and endogenous factors.

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Lau, D., Krondl, M., Coleman, P. (1984). Psychological Factors Affecting Food Selection. In: Galler, J.R. (eds) Nutrition and Behavior. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7219-0_12

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