In the 1990s, Grunert, Brunsø, and Bisp (1993) found a relationship between consumer values, lifestyle, and the purchase of certain food categories.
Although in case of functional foods where health behavior plays an outstanding role, the connections to consumer lifestyle have not been studied in this complex connection yet.
Thus the following objectives were set up. In the first step, the Hungarian food market was segmented on the basis of a food related lifestyle model (Grunert et al., 1993).
In the second step, the objective was to find significant correlations between lifestyle segments, behavioral control (Ajzen, 2002), and the consumption of functional foods.
Finally, the study hoped to find reasoning relations between lifestyle and consumer values (Kahle, 1983).