The RoF has a number of objectives, which have been stated below. Fulfilment of these objectives will lead to measurable results and direct consequences, which are important to science, business and society.
Development of new methods and techniques for observational research of food choice and eating and drinking behaviour.
- To gain more insight into the influence of situational factors.
- To gain more insight into the relation between behaviour and physiological processes.
- To collect methods and techniques for integration of image processing and physiological processes.
- To gain an insight into the role of and the relation between liking and appetite.
- To gain an insight into a developed method for measuring appetite.
- To develop new methods and techniques to predict changes in liking.
- To gain advanced insight into the role of memory in food choice, perception and liking.
- To developed improved methods for measuring the effect of anticipation.
- Development of evaluation methods for innovative kitchen equipment.
- To design a programme for cooking lessons to children and parents based on experiental learning for large scale rollout.
- Gaining extended insight in learning and changing of eating patterns.
- Enhancing the image of Food Valley.