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This study explores the impact of e-commerce operations on green food consumption of rural residents, focusing on its role in enhancing information access, improving income, and upgrading logistics. It provides a new theoretical support for promoting green food consumption and ensuring food safety.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Based on survey data from 2,805 rural residents across 10 provinces in China, this study employs a binary Probit model and a mediating effect model to examine the impact and mechanisms of e-commerce operations on green food consumption of rural residents, while also testing for heterogeneous effects. Furthermore, it investigates the differential influences of e-commerce operation models, operation scales, product types, and types of green food.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results and discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The findings indicate that e-commerce operations significantly promote green food consumption of rural residents, and this conclusion remains robust after multiple robustness and endogeneity tests. Mechanism analysis reveals that e-commerce facilitates green food consumption by improving household income, enhancing information acquisition, and strengthening logistics infrastructure. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the positive effect is more pronounced among rural residents with higher social capital, in the central and eastern regions, and in major grain-producing areas. Additional results suggest that platform e-commerce, large-scale operations, and businesses involving primary processed products exert stronger effects on green food consumption, while e-commerce operations more effectively boost the consumption of green vegetables and dairy products. Overall, by examining e-commerce operations, this study provides an in-depth analysis of how online market participation fosters green food consumption of rural residents, offering important insights for advancing sustainable consumption in the context of digital economy transformation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fnut.2025.1685466","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,5]],"date-time":"2025-11-05T06:26:40Z","timestamp":1762324000000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["E-commerce and green food consumption of rural residents: implications for sustainable rural food systems"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Hailan","family":"Qiu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xueyi","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hanyun","family":"Deng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Xiangqi","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhihua","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Biao","family":"Sheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"168","DOI":"10.13902\/j.cnki.syyj.2018.07.022","article-title":"The influence of farmers\u2032 green consumption consciousness on their consumption behavior","volume":"60","author":"Zhang","year":"2018","journal-title":"Commercial Res"},{"key":"ref2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"144169","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jclepro.2024.144169","article-title":"Consumers' green product purchase intention considering Para-social interaction: an experimental study based on live-streaming e-commerce","volume":"481","author":"Long","year":"2024","journal-title":"J Clean Prod"},{"key":"ref3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"224","DOI":"10.15957\/j.cnki.jjdl.2021.10.025","article-title":"Does internet use promote rural residents' consumption: based on the survey of 739 farmers in Jiangxi province","volume":"41","author":"Zhao","year":"2021","journal-title":"Econ Geogr"},{"key":"ref4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"991525","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2022.991525","article-title":"How different advertising appeals (green vs. non-green) impact consumers' willingness to pay a premium for green agricultural products","volume":"13","author":"Zheng","year":"2022","journal-title":"Front Psychol"},{"key":"ref5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"4342","DOI":"10.1080\/00036846.2021.1899121","article-title":"Digital economy value chain: concept, model structure, and mechanism","volume":"53","author":"Miao","year":"2021","journal-title":"Appl Econ"},{"key":"ref6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1689","DOI":"10.3390\/agriculture14101689","article-title":"Impact of rural e-commerce on farmers\u2019 income and income gap","volume":"14","author":"Guan","year":"2024","journal-title":"Agriculture (Basel)"},{"key":"ref7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"103956","DOI":"10.1016\/j.compind.2023.103956","article-title":"Blockchain-enabled digital assets tokenization for cyber-physical traceability in E-commerce logistics financing","volume":"150","author":"Harish","year":"2023","journal-title":"Comput Ind"},{"key":"ref8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jrurstud.2016.02.016","article-title":"Virtual reconnection: the online spaces of alternative food networks in England","volume":"45","author":"Bos","year":"2016","journal-title":"J Rural Stud"},{"key":"ref9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"116524","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jenvman.2022.116524","article-title":"How does digital technology promote carbon emission reduction? 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