The relationship between the use of sugar content information on nutrition labels and the consumption of added sugars

Food Policy

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 213-219

  Weaver, D ^a   Finke, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption; Labelling; Sugar; US

Indexed keywords

NUTRITION; SUGAR;

EID: 0038500904     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9192(03)00028-9     Document Type: Article

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