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Product Price: $350 $175

Release Date: 2004-10-01

Report Length: 31 slides

Market Coverage: US Market

Methodology: The quantitative survey was conducted in May of 2004 using Hartman Interactive, The Hartman Group's online panel, with a sample of 1,275 respondents. Qualitative research for this study consisted of in-home interviews and online focus groups with 25 consumers. All research was conducted in the Spring of 2004.

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Trans Fats: The Consumer Issue that Never Was

This report looks at the current state of consumer perceptions of and response to trans fats. A result of qualitative and quantitative research conducting during 2004, the report's findings look at:

  • Consumer level of understanding about trans fats. What do they know and how do they define them?
  • Which products do they associate with trans fats?
  • What are consumers doing to avoid them?
  • What triggers consumers to adopt avoidance strategies?
  • How do they associate them with disease?
  • How do they learn about trans fats? Where/Who do they turn to for information?
  • What do they look for when reading product nutrition labels?
  • And more