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Determinants and Consequences of Using Lab-Grown Meat in Egyptian Tourist Food Establishments: Evidence from Customers' Perspectives

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Food and beverage services

Abstract

As innovation foods, once tourist food establishments use new food products, they will face different reaction concerns and questions from customers about this new technology. This research aims to identify the extent of the Egyptian consumer's acceptance and willingness to eat lab-grown meat. For achieving research aim, a questionnaire was designed and distributed to a random sample of customers in Egyptian tourist food establishments, 523 valid responses were received and analyzed by SPSS V.28. The results indicated that customers do not have enough information about lab-grown meat to accept the experience of eating it in the future. This information includes sensory characteristics, nutritional value, and environmental characteristics, the religious and moral aspects compared to natural meat, in addition to the cost factor of lab-grown meat. Therefore, maybe customers' acceptance and confidence in lab-grown meat is the major obstacle to the marketing process of this new product in Egyptian food establishments. Based on the results, some recommendations were suggested and directed to food science professionals, factory owners, restaurant owners, chefs, and food establishments. One of the main recommendations was that Egyptian customers should be made aware of lab-grown meat through corporate media and publicity for the sustainability and safety of food and nutrition and the health of lab-grown meat through the dissemination of adequate information about lab-grown meat by food science professionals.

DOI

10.21608/jaauth.2024.259336.1543

Keywords

Food Technology, Lab-Grown Meat, Customers' Perspectives, Tourist Food Establishments

Authors

First Name

Mahmoud

Last Name

Abass

MiddleName

Naeem

Affiliation

Hotels department, faculty of tourism and hotels mansoura university, mansoura, Egypt

Email

mahmoudnaeem@mans.edu.eg

City

Mansoura

Orcid

0000-0001-9742-2119

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Abd Elfattah Zohry

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Faculty of Tourism and Hotels - Mansoura University

Email

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City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Anwar Elsaed

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Faculty of Tourism and Hotels - Mansoura University

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Volume

26

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

46247

Issue Date

2024-06-01

Receive Date

2023-12-30

Publish Date

2024-06-01

Page Start

1

Page End

21

Print ISSN

1687-1863

Online ISSN

2682-4612

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https://jaauth.journals.ekb.eg/article_342398.html

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342,398

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Original Article

Type Code

997

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality

Publication Link

https://jaauth.journals.ekb.eg/

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Determinants and Consequences of Using Lab-Grown Meat in Egyptian Tourist Food Establishments: Evidence from Customers' Perspectives

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Created At

24 Dec 2024