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Consumer demand for potatoes in Scotland during COVID-19 pandemic

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  • Leslie, Max
  • Revoredo-Giha, Cesar

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Potatoes are a beneficial component of a healthy Scottish diet, when cooked healthily without excessive and potentially harmful additives. However, in recent decades fresh potato preparation has declined accompanied with an increase in consumption of potato-based convenience foods that may be higher in fat, sugar, and salt additives. Reduced time allocated by households towards cooking from scratch was identified in the existing literature as a potential causal factor for the decline in fresh potato consumption. The purpose of this paper is to empirically evaluate using differences in differences and data from a home-scanner dataset whether the advent of COVID-19 marked a deviation from this long-term trend in fresh potato consumption by providing households with an additional time endowment for exclusively domestic tasks, including cooking. The results did not find differences in the consumption patterns.

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  • Leslie, Max & Revoredo-Giha, Cesar, 2023. "Consumer demand for potatoes in Scotland during COVID-19 pandemic," 97th Annual Conference, March 27-29, 2023, Warwick University, Coventry, UK 334536, Agricultural Economics Society - AES.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aesc23:334536
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.334536
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