EXPLORING CULTURAL INFLUENCES ON DIET: A CASE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN HUNGARY
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Szerzők: Cím: EXPLORING CULTURAL INFLUENCES ON DIET: A CASE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN HUNGARY DOI: https://doi.org/10.71066/FTTMK.1.16 Megjelent: 2025. december
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ABSTRACT
The University of Nyíregyháza's international students' eating habits were investigated, with a particular emphasis on vegetarianism and its connection to lifestyle. A questionnaire survey was administered in January and February of 2025 to 61 participants, or approximately one-fifth of all overseas students. From the results, it is observed that over half of the students (54%) did not adopt any particular diet. When compared, weight-control diets (18%) and fasting intermittently (16%) had the highest frequency of eating behaviors. Another percentage of students regarded themselves as vegetarian (7%) or flexitarian (3%).
Meat-eating continued to dominate, with just over half of the interviewers (48%) reporting that they ate meat several times a day, and just under one-third (31%) reporting that they ate it once a day. Self-notification for dietary choice was associated with health, religion, pressure from relatives and neighbors, and appearance. In the case of meat consumption, taste and the perception of meat as a natural and nutritionally essential food were the most decisive factors. There was no significant relationship in the statistics between the type of diet and the gender or nationality of the interviewers.
KEYWORDS
drought tolerance, genotype, yield, biomass, irrigation, pot experiment, gluten-free cereal
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