Funding for this research was provided by:
HORIZON EUROPE 2020 (‘Strength2Food’ award n.678024)
Research England (National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE))
HORIZON EUROPE (GI SMART grant agreement No. 101136364)
Article History
Received: 4 April 2024
Accepted: 8 December 2025
First Online: 16 December 2025
Declarations
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: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.
: This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the Ethics Committee of Newcastle University (Date.1st March 2016/Ref: P16798).
: Consent to participate: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study; Consent to publish: Participants signed informed consent regarding publishing their data and photographs.