Manuela Apetrei is a PhD research scientist in the field of marketing at the “CE-MONT” Centre for Mountain Economy, “Costin C. Kiriţescu” National Institute for Economic Research, Romanian Academy. Her research topics of interest include mountain agro-food marketing, mountain tourism, analysis of mountain products from the perspective of sensory marketing, and the valorization of mountain products in gastronomy through the fructification of umami taste. She has also analyzed the phenomenon of food waste through the prism of interdisciplinary perspectives to determine the causes, habits, and factors that lead to the expansion of this phenomenon at the global level.