Adilah Md Ramli and Dg Khairunisa Ahmad Sapawi and Shalawati Ibrahim and Saw Chin Weon (2023) Factors affecting the selection of Kadazandusun ethnic foods among students of Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia. Canrea Journal Food Technology Nutritions and Culinary Journal, 6. pp. 31-41.
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Abstract
Ethnic food refers to food originating from a specific ethnic group. The study identifies the knowledge and factors in Kadazandusun ethnic food selection among students at the Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS). A total of 410 students from Universiti Malaysia Sabah were recruited as respondents through the snowball method. This quantitative study used questionnaires to collect data. The closed-ended questionnaire has four parts: demographics, knowledge, factors affecting food selection, and Kadazandusun ethnic food consumption intention. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and presented as frequencies, percentages, and mean values to address the study aims. In this study, 46.8% of the respondents had low knowledge (scale of 0–50) about Kadazandusun ethnic food. As factors that influence food selection, the health factor with an average value of x= 3.39 ± 1.095 received a neutral response toward agreeing compared with the convenience factor (x= 3.17 ± 1.086), taste/sense of food (x= 3.12 ± 1.170), price (x= 3.17 ± 1.134), and habit (x= 2.55 ± 1.164). Therefore, awareness and ethnic food selection factors among students are still low. A mechanism that can promote ethnic food, especially among IPTA students, for sustainability, information dissemination, and consumption of traditional ethnic food, is needed so that it does not disappear.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword: | Knowledge level, Selection, Ethnic food, IPTA students. |
| Subjects: | D World History and History Of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Etc. > DS Asia > DS1-937 History of Asia > DS520-560.72 Southeast Asia > DS591-599 Malaysia. Malay Peninsula. Straits Settlements > DS597.22-599 Local history and description > DS597.33-597.34 Sabah. British North Borneo T Technology > TX Home economics > TX1-1110 Home economics > TX341-641 Nutrition. Foods and food supply |
| Department: | FACULTY > Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition |
| Depositing User: | DG MASNIAH AHMAD - |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Sep 2023 10:05 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2023 10:05 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/36798 |
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