Perceptions of Healthy Food Packaging Information: Do Men and Women Perceive Differently?

A healthy lifestyle is an important trend shaping business actions today, while packaging on the other hand influences the purchase behavior of consumers. The aim of this research was to explore and understand consumer perceptions of healthy food packaging information. Beside qualitative research, a quantitative research was conducted with a non-probability convenient sample. Data were analyzed using exploratory methods – principal component analysis and linear regression. The influence of advertisements and influence perception of the credibility of packaging information were observed. The research results show that there are gender differences in the importance of different attributes of healthy food packaging information perception. Women are influenced only by advertisements, while men are influenced both by advertisements and the credibility of packaging information.