Samenvatting

Due to growing awareness of nutrition’s impact on human health and the environment, more people decide to adopt a sustainable diet. Some decide to become flexitarians, and others stop eating meat completely. It has been also observed that mood plays a big role in influencing eating behaviours. Scientists connect certain foods to mood changes. What people eat, directly affects their palatability. This research examined the short-term effects of consumption of an animal-based product and plant-based product on mood. The main question of this research was: “How do plant-based alternative foods versus traditional animal-based foods affect the mood and palatability of a consumer?”.