Food composition and nutrition

Healthy food is of great importance in order to improve and keep a strong health and to prevent cost-related illnesses like e.g. obesity. The choice of foods can also be part of a specific lifestyle and reflect a certain socio-cultural relation. AKF's research into this area is meant to uncover to which extent new, economic means, like e.g. VAT differentiation. or more traditional means, like campaigns for at healthier food composition, can be effective in the battle against obesity by changing the citizens' food composition. The research should e.g. uncover:

• the connection between food, exercise and obesity,
• the importance of information when choosing foodstuff,
• the demand for foodstuff with specific characteristics, e.g. organic products,
• differences in food composition for groups of people with different characteristics.