Milk, mylk or drink: Do packaging cues affect consumers’ understanding of plant-based products?

The market growth of plant-based alternatives to animal food products pushes agencies around the world to discuss specific regulations regarding their communication, terminology, and packaging design. We created and tested 18 packages of plant-based milk and plant-based chicken meat varying the “animalness” of terminology, container, image,...

Switching to reuse? An exploration of consumers’ perceptions and behaviour towards reusable packaging systems

Reusable packaging systems (RPSs) can significantly reduce single-use packaging waste. However, knowledge about consumers’ adoption of this kind of packaging is scarce. We adopted a qualitative approach using in-depth interviews with consumers (n = 27) who had actually used an RPS and follow-up phone interviews to capture consumer behaviour...

Conveying information through food packaging: A literature review comparing legislation with consumer perception

Although governments have implemented regulations to inform consumers on important product properties and protect consumers from deceptive information, empirical research on how consumers perceive, interpret and experience food packages have shown frequently that consumers may be misled by how information is presented and packages are...

Packaging design for a FairChain brand

Moyee Coffee is a company that buys coffee berries in Ethiopia and sells coffee in the Netherlands. Currently they outsource the roasting (grinding) and packaging processes in between. The company aims at doing the roasting (grinding) and packaging in their own facilities in Ethiopia in the future. Thereby they pursue balance in the coffee...

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