Investigation and knowledge of behavior of people who applied to a private diet consulting center against non-local nutritional foods

This study was conducted on 143 females (88.8%) and 18 males (11.2%) who applied to a private counseling center and 18-65 years old in February 2019. For the study, the non-local food (avocado, chia seeds, gojiberry, coconut, buckwheat, mango, black rice and teff seeds) which are not cultivated in Turkey but attracted the attention of people through different media in recent years were chosen. As a result, the people who consumed these nutrients, indicated that mostly they wanted to try and to provide an alternative to the daily diet. According to this outcome it seems that although people come across non-local food in their environments, social and conventional media since they do not consume them regularly they did not integrate to their diet and they do not have sufficient information about the contribution of these foods to their health.