- Conscious consumers: Individuals who prioritize products and services that promote sustainability, health, and social fairness while expecting brands to demonstrate transparency, authenticity, and accountability.
- Eudaimonia: The realization of one’s purpose and potential, focusing on personal growth and fulfillment.
- Food literacy: The drive to utilize nutrition knowledge when making food-related decisions.
- Food well-being: A perspective that views food as more than just nourishment, emphasizing its role in providing comfort, joy, social connection, and identity.
- Health: The state of physical well-being and the absence of illness.
- Hedonia: The experience of positive emotions associated with pleasure and the reduction of pain.
- Hospitality industry: A collection of businesses dedicated to offering services related to food and beverage, accommodation and complementary services like recreation and entertainment to guests. In this report, when referring to hospitality we encompass restaurants, cafes, catering services, food delivery and hotel food outlets.
- Life satisfaction: The overall perception of quality across different areas of life.
- Nutrition: The intake of substances essential for nourishing the body.
- Planetary well-being: Fostering a harmonious balance between human prosperity and the health of the Earth’s ecosystems.
- Plant-forward diet: Flexible eating, emphasizing a variety of plant-based foods (e.g., vegetables, fruits, grains, legumes, nuts) while not necessarily eliminating animal products. It prioritizes plants while allowing moderate inclusion of meat, dairy, or fish.
- Planetary diet: A science-based diet developed by the EAT-Lancet Commission that balances human nutritional needs with the earth's ecological boundaries. Predominantly plant-based foods but it allows limited consumption of animal products to reduce environmental impacts while ensuring global food security.
- Plant-based diet: Consisting entirely or mostly of plant-derived foods. Although it can include small amounts of animal products in some interpretations, many associate it with strictly vegan or vegetarian approaches.
- Sustainable diets: Diets that are healthy, safe, nutritionally adequate and environmentally sustainable.
- Social eating: Sharing meals with others to foster connection and build community.
- Sustainable development: Meeting current needs while ensuring future generations can meet theirs.
- Well-being: A state of experiencing positive feelings and having a meaningful life by fulfilling one’s potential.
- Wellness: The active pursuit of healthy habits and practices.
- Wellness economy: Businesses that empower individuals to integrate wellness activities and lifestyles into everyday living.
