Food innovations offering new sources of protein as well as new urban food production aims to provide solution s for food production under restricted res ource s The alternative protein sources and urban agriculture are not part of the daily lives in Germany Involving the public in research on food innovations not only helps to increase consumer acceptance Tuorila Hartmann, 2020 but also can facilitate more responsible research and innovation To date, o nly few studies have investigated consumer acceptance of new food solutions in Germany (Weinrich Elshiewy 2019 and little is know n about the consumers’ perceptions of innovations with longer time horizons Therefore, the present study investigates the public perceptions o f selected food innovations ( crickets, halophytes, jellyfish and urban food production in Germany
