With little or no options to dine out, the trend of eating home-cooked food is clearly growing. The COVID-19 pandemic, with the lockdown being imposed, has changed the way we cook and eat. Quarantine and self-isolation imposed on people have got them shifting back to fresh, healthy ingredients with minimal risk involved in cooking. This points towards one direction – the fact that food trends and people’s eating habits may not be the same as before or during the lockdown.
In the circumstances, Dr Mostafa I. Waly, Associate Professor from the Food Science and Nutrition Department at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), in collaboration with the University of Antwerp in Belgium, has launched a large-scale international study into people’s changed cooking and eating habits due to COVID-19 and the corresponding preventative measures. When it comes to meals, the situation is completely different as compared to that before the emergence of the coronavirus. This has not escaped the notice of several researchers either.
This is why researchers at the Food Science and Nutrition Department at SQU, in collaboration with FOOMS (Food, Media & Society) of UAntwerp, have launched the Corona Cooking Survey, to study into the impact of COVID-19 on how people deal with food and food-related media.
The survey is about your shopping, cooking, eating and media habits before the corona measures and during the corona measures. At least 1000 respondents are expected to participate in this study from several countries across Europe, USA, Canada, Arab countries from the Middle East including GCC countries, Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon.
The questionnaire will take about 20-25 minutes to complete. We urge you all to take the survey and find out what has changed in your eating and food buying habits.
The survey is open to anyone over the age of 18 years until September and can be completed until most of the preventative COVID-19 measures have been lifted.
We hope you will take the time to fill it in!
