Evaluation of a hedonic scaling method for measuring the acceptability of school lunches by children

Italian Journal of Food Science

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 215-224

  Pagliarini, E ^a   Ratti, S ^a   Balzaretti, C ^a   Dragoni, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Children; Scaling; School lunch

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043289772     PISSN: 11201770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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