Consumers are increasingly concern about their health and therefore, fruits are being considered an
important healthy food product. However, the consumption of fresh fruits in the last years remains
constant or decreases slightly. This trend can be due to the increasing consumers’ demand for convenience.
Then, a convenience and enjoyable way to take advantage of the fruit benefits is taking fruit
juices, therefore, the consumption of juices is increasing. In this environment, fruit agri-food companies
supply fruit juice that claim not to come from concentrated, in other words, to be natural. The aim of
this paper is to assess consumers’ preferences for the attribute “natural”. To reach this objective a personal
interview to consumers was undertaken in Zaragoza in April 2010. To estimate the willingness to
pay for two pear juice attributes (natural and region of origin) a choice experiment was used. Results
indicated that the maximum willingness to pay for a natural pear juice is 0.77 €/litre. On the other
hand, the maximum willingness to pay for a pear juice produced in the region (Aragon) is 0.27 €/litre.
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